This is a rolling list of writings about Neurodiversity, Madness, and (Dis)ability I’ve put together for your reading. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but rather an assortment of pieces that I have personally found useful, and hope you do too. – Cortland Nesley (Founder)

Autism and Neurodiversity

Don’t Mourn for Us By Jim Sinclair

The Future (and the Past) of Autism Advocacy, Or Why the ASA's Magazine, The Advocate, Wouldn't Publish This Piece By Ari Ne'eman

Clinically Significant Disturbance: On Theorists Who Theorize Theory of Mind By Melanie Yergeau

Identity First Language and Social Models of (Dis)ability

Why I Dislike Person First Language By Jim Sinclair

Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm By Nick Walker

I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much By Stella Young

Critical Disability Theory

Critical Disability Theory Overview By Melinda C. Hall

Enabling Whom? Critical Disability Studies Now By Julie Avril Minich

Critical Disability Studies as Methodology By Sami Schalk

Identity Politics and Disability Studies: A Critique of Recent Theory By Anna Mollow

We Exist Because They Exist By Devi Mucina

Mad Studies

The Ex-Patients’ Movement: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going By Judi Chamberlin

Confessions of a Non-Compliant Patient By Judi Chamberlin

Mad Feminism By Anna Mollow

Mad Studies: Maddening Social Work By Dr. Brenda LeFrancois (Video)

MindFreedom International’s Organizing Guide for Psychiatric Survivors

Mad Matters Edited By Robert J. Menzies, Geoffrey Reaume, Brenda A. LeFrançois (Available for purchase)

History of Madness By Michel Foucault (Available for purchase)

Race and the Psy-Complex

Stigma, Racism and Power By Suman Fernando

Roots of Racism in Western Psychiatry By Suman Fernando

Mad People Of Color – A Manifesto By Rachel Gorman, Annu Saini, Louise Tam, Onyinyechukwu Udegbe & Onar Usar

Mad but not Crazy: On “Suicide” and the “Psy Complex” By Louise Tam

Quagmires of Affect: Madness, Labor, Whiteness, and Ideological Disavowal By Rachel Gorman

Eugenics and Ableism

Eugenics Archive from the Research Council of Canada

Unwanted Sterilization and Eugenics Programs in the United States By Lisa Ko

Prenatal Diagnosis and Selective Abortion: A Challenge to Practice and Policy By Adrienne Asch

Why I Haven’t Changed My Mind About Prenatal Diagnosis: Reflections and Refinements By Adrienne Asch

Death without Dignity: The Dangers of Assisted Suicide By Lydia Brown

Crip Theory: Queerness and Disability

Cripping Neoliberal Fururity: Marking the Elsewhere and Elsewhen of Desiring Otherwise By Kelly Fritsch

Exploring Ableism and Cisnormativity in the Conceptualization of Identity and Sexuality “Disorders” By Alexandre Baril and Kathryn Trevenen

Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability By Robert McRuer (Available for Purchase)