#DisabilityStillTooWhite: A White Autist Examines Representation in the Disability Movement

• By: joshua schwartz MSW Candidate, 2021, University of California, Berkeley
• January 1st, 2021
• actually autistic, advocacy, gender, race, social change, white privilege, winter 2021 issue
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I identify as White, non-binary, neuro-queer, autistic, and disabled. I believe it is crucial to be transparent as soon as possible about (my) positionality when discussing intricate and delicate concepts (and always starting with my Whiteness to highlight how my White privilege directly and...