Product Description
by Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist (Editor), Anna Day (Editor), Meaghan Krazinski (Editor)
This edited collection of contributions explores non-normative genders, sexualities and relationality among Autistic people.
Author Biography
Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist is a neurodivergent Professor in Social Work, at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research is focusing on research method and theory development within neurodiversity studies. She has published several papers on the theme of gender and sexuality; among autistic people as well as among nonautistic people. She has edited several books, among them Neurodiversity Studies. A New Critical Paradigm (edited by Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, Nick Chown & Anna Stenning, 2020).
Anna Day is a neurodivergent Principal Clinical Psychologist and parent to an Autistic young person. Anna has extensive clinical experience in the UK's National Health Service (NHS) in a community mental health team and specialist psychological therapies service, and now work for The Adult Autism Practice, Dublin, within a neuro-affirmative approach with adults seeking autism identification. They have a particular interest in GSRD issues and neuroqueering. Anna and colleagues have published the successful Adult Autism Assessment Handbook: A Neurodiversity Affirming Approach (2021) and are working on The Neurodiversity Affirmative Child Autism Assessment Handbook.
Meaghan Krazinski is a neurodivergent PhD student in special education at Syracuse University, United States. Her research interests include neurodiversity; neurodivergent college student experiences; inclusive education; autistic identity, gender and relationality; and arts-based research methods. She has published work on Autistic understandings of gender, race, and identity in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and an analysis of Disabled students' experiences with online learning using a queer phenomenological method, as well as a forthcoming co-authored work on neuroqueering, education, and culturally sustaining practices.