CURATOR’S STATEMENT Zoë Sylvester-Chin Curator’s Statement Audio Blackness and disability should be studied in tandem just as much as they…
Emerging Media Guides
Miss Understood
/The Mis and Under-diagnosing of Autistic Bodies and Their Correspondence with Blackness
The Impact of Common Black Child-rearing Practices on Autistic Children
/Autism is often associated white bodies and there is a very complicated history between race and any form of disability. I look into how being Black and autistic becomes a very alienating experience from an early age by looking at common practices of child-rearing and discipline in Black communities. Not only are there the more aggressive examples of spanking autistic behavior out of a child, there’s also the more subtle but extremely impactful experience of being unable culturally assimilate and dealign with that alienation.
This is My Part Nobody Else Speak
/Unpacking Black Ableism and its impact on the Black Autistic Community
Policing Black Autistic Bodies
/Intersectionality of Race and Disability and the US Legal System
Camouflaging Disorders
/The Investigation of Psychiatric Disorders masking an Autism Diagnosis
Black Autistic Families and COVID-19
/Mutual Aid, Communal Care, and Joy
Listening to Black Autistic Women and Girls
/Collecting Information and Stories About Black Autistic Women, by Black Autistic Women