Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network

Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network
Founder Sharon daVanport
Founded at Lincoln, Nebraska
Location
  • Washington, District of Columbia
Corina Lynn Becker, Lori Berkowitz, Lydia X. Z. Brown, Sharon daVanport, Mara Fritts, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Heather Thomas
Key people
 E. Ashkenazy, Emily Paige Ballou, Court (Alison) Falk, Amanda Gaul-Worboys, Erin Human, Lei Wiley-Mydske

The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN), originally founded as the Autism Women's Network, is a nonprofit advocacy organization in the autism rights and neurodiversity movements based in Washington, D.C.[1][2] Its focus is empowerment and support for autistic women and nonbinary transgender people, both groups that have faced historical exclusion by male-dominant discourse on autism.[2]

AWN hosts two projects focused on intersectionality in the disability rights community: Divergent, a project focused on disability and feminism, and the Autism, Race, and Ethnicity Committee.[3]

AWN also manages its own small publishing house, DragonBee Press, which has published two anthologies on autism-related topics. The first anthology is What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Kristina Thomas, and Sharon daVanport, which received the Autism Society's Outstanding Literary Work of the Year Award in 2017.[4][5][6] The second anthology is All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism, edited by Lydia X. Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy, and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu.[7]

AWN changed its name in April 2018, releasing a statement in which it said that the name change was meant to promote inclusivity and encourage nonbinary transgender people as well as transgender women to join AWN's community and access its resources.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Opinion | Making Encounters With Police Officers Safer for People With Disabilities". The New York Times. 2017-10-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  2. 1 2 "Gender stereotypes have made us horrible at recognizing autism in women and girls". Quartz. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  3. ↑ "LISTEN: Black, female and autistic — hiding in plain sight". Salon. 2017-03-15. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  4. ↑ What every autistic girl wishes her parents knew. Ballou, Emily Paige,, Thomas, Kristina,, DaVanport, Sharon,. United States. ISBN 9780997504521. OCLC 969909560.
  5. ↑ "Awards - Autism Society". Autism Society. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  6. ↑ "Interview: Emily Paige Ballou, Co-editor of the Autism Women's Network "Girls" Anthology: Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education". www.mcie.org. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  7. ↑ All the weight of our dreams : on living racialized autism. Brown, Lydia X. Z.,, Ashkenazy, E.,, Onaiwu, Morénike Giwa,, Autism Women's Network. Lincoln, Nebraska. ISBN 9780997504507. OCLC 991619149.
  8. ↑ "Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) - Autism Women's Network". Autism Women's Network. 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
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