An Autistic and ADHD Journey: Re-writing a New Identity Post-Discovery
Book review of An Autistic-ADHD Journey: Building a True Identity Post-Discovery by Rachel Vivienne Winder, reviewed by Dr. Nicholas Chown.
Author Posts
Posts from LPP authors.
Between Survival and Empowerment: Refugee Women’s Entrepreneurship in Jordan and Lebanon
LPP authors Haya Al-Dajani, Maysa Baroud, and Deema Refai document the stories of Arab refugee women entrepreneurs who turn displacement into empowerment, and reveal the perils and pitfalls of refugee entrepreneurship.
Trading Bars: Prisons as De Facto Mental Institutions
Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) have been barred from “polite” society throughout history. Many will eventually find their way to prison, behind a different set of bars, where there is little incentive to treat. Have we simply traded one form of confinement for another, even more cruel one?
Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Practices: Asserting Themselves For 500 Years…and Counting
In spite of the burdens and losses because of settler male supremacy, Indigenous women are reclaiming their rights through movements for reproductive justice, advocating for a return to their ancestral practices, and redefining concepts of womanhood and motherhood on their own tribal terms.
Dislocation and Distress through Dress
Nica Cornell describes her experience with Complex Post Traumatic Stress and how the accoutrements of dress can be comforting for mental illness and other disabilities.
Autism Was Never an Accident
Autism was never an accident of Tylenol or vaccines or industrial life. It is not a side effect to be managed, nor a pathology to be cured. Autism has been preserved through millennia of natural selection as our ongoing contribution to humanity’s survival.
Book Review for Elly Katz’s From Scientist to Stroke Survivor: Life Redacted by Arvilla Fee
This book “is one of the greatest testaments to human tenacity, courage, and strength that the publishing world has ever seen.” –Arvilla Fee
Autism and the Modern Eugenics Movement
Autism and neurodivergent rights seem to be making an impact on our daily lives, with more emphasis on inclusion and recognition of differences. On the ground, things look very different. Autistic author Jorik Mol shares his assessment of current issues for neurodivergent communities in the Anglosphere, placing autistic rights in the context of renewed enthusiasm for eugenics in the 21st century.
Dolores Huerta and Women’s Leadership in the Movement for Human Rights
It is difficult to be optimistic when extremism has gained a stranglehold on the U.S. government while the mainstream media persists in normalizing the political insanity we are witnessing. But Dolores Huerta’s words and actions are an uplifting exhortation to keep on pushing ahead in the movement for universal human rights.
Story Merging in Writing Biography: Learning from Léa Roback’s Advocacy and Activism
In Tara Goldstein’s biography of her aunt Léa Roback, she uses a writing approach called story merging, where she recounts how her aunt’s activism influenced her own educational and theatre activism.