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The Science of Neurodiversity and the Art of Advocacy with Dr. Yewande Pearse and Jen White-Johnson

Episode Summary

Episode 02 of “Dreaming Different” brings together a neuroscientist and a disability justice educator to discuss the theory and science of neurodivergence, and what it makes possible within the practice of collective liberation. Dr. Yewande Pearse and Jen White-Johnson discuss the medical and social models of disability, the lineage of disabled and neurodivergent wisdom, and what it means to find language that helps us advocate for what we need in the environments we're in.

Episode Notes

References: 

• Jen White-Johnson
• @jtknoxrox
• Dr. Yewande Pearse
• @nyewro
• Lydia Brown
• Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network
• Alice Wong and the Disability Visibility Project
• Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
• Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-Racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers
• 10 Principles of Disability Justice
• Shannon Finnegan
• Pivot Diversity 
• Haley Moss
• Society of Disabled Oracles
• Lois Curtis

Credits:

• Dreaming Different is brought to you by Deem Audio.
• Produced by Alexis Aceves Garcia, Jorge Vallecillos, Amy Mae Garrett.
• Editorial by Alice Grandoit-Šutka, Alexis Aceves Garcia, Isabel Flower.
• Creative direction by Nu Goteh.
• Design by Jun Lin.
• Sound mixing and editing by Hasan Insane.
• Theme music by Nu Goteh.