Vice recently did a special on autism: At 0:40, Gianna Toboni asks Dr. Gil Tippy about the phenomenology of autism. What’s it like to be in the classroom or on the street, for the kids? Why not ask the kids? I’m pausing to write this commentary as I go, so maybe they do, but it…
After reading Andrea Long Chu’s book, I wanted more. Highly confessional writing by people who disagree with me is the best fodder for blog posts. On Liking Women is an earlier, essay-length discussion of some overlapping territory: Valerie Solanas, radical feminism, and trans people. Chu engages directly with TERFs, and that’s what interests me about…
Thank you, Scientific American, for this article: Autistic people make great social partners if you actually give them a chance. This is what I want the public to understand, as someone autistic. Usually, “autism awareness” is a PR effort by Autism Speaks and other groups that present autism as essentially a eugenic problem to be…
Andrea Long Chu’s Females made me laugh or think in some places, but it was disappointing for a book sold as an edgy provocation from “our most exciting new public intellectual”. I wish it had been written by a psychoanalyst instead of a troll. Females…according to someone born male. The opening is undeniably funny: Everyone…