Loved Programming, Desiring Autism and Neurodivergence Film Screening, 2024
The goal of the Symposium is to bring together diverse scholars, artists, students, educators, and community to explore shared goals around belonging, access, and justice for autistic and neurodivergent individuals in education. The event features thought-provoking art, workshops, and panels to invite deep engagement about desiring different ways of thinking and being together in schools. This event will result in an open-access, peer-reviewed online resource hub to be hosted at Queen’s University Faculty of Education, a co-edited academic book, and training and includes many mentoring opportunities for autistic and neurodivergent students, artists and scholars.
Two vital questions drive our event and outreach:
1) What does it mean to desire the difference of autism and ND in education?
2) What do critical, creative, decolonial and intersectional perspectives bring to education that is novel?