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Advocacy: small steps, big impact
There’s an idea that online advocacy has to be that you reach X amount of people that you have to be on all the platforms, and you have to continually make content. I see too many Autistic advocates online apologise for going quiet for periods of time. You don’t need to apologise. What you’re giving…
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My thoughts on BBC’s Inside Our Autistic Minds
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Fighting for the right to exist
Advocating for yourself and others – in whatever way you do it – is one of the hardest jobs a person will ever do. We go about our everyday lives overly aware that we live within systems and societies which hate, fear and ignore us in equal measure. We fight against microaggressions and violence every…
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My on and off relationship with writing
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Navigating online advocacy
When I started online advocacy a few years back I felt like I had a vision, an aim. I was ushered into groups lovingly and with open arms, some I was massively interested in and others were more problematic. Some were very unsafe places for me. I navigated myself round these during lockdown and whilst…
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Activism in the everyday
“Activism doesn’t have to be big and loud it can be in every day conversations” Every time someone speaks up for marginalised folks they are advocating for themselves and others. Showing up for ourselves and other people is the biggest form of self care and activism. Activism doesn’t have to be big and flashy, web…
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Autistic Pride: joy, pain and activism
