Academic Works
Plurality, Neurodiversity, and Neurominority
Plural Positivity World Conference 2023
A look at Plurality through the Neurodiversity paradigm. We argue that Plurality is sensibly considered a neurominority as Dr Nick Walker conceives of them. We problematise the typical psychological and psychiatric (and even neuroscientific) approach to thinking about Plurality, and compare it with the way psychology and psychiatry have treated transgender people throughout modern history to this very day.
From Puzzle to Progress: How Engaging With Neurodiversity Can Improve Cognitive Science
Published 2023 in Cognitive Science: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13255
We discuss why cognitive science has thus far failed to engage with neurodiversity, why this gap presents both ethical and scientific challenges for the field, and, crucially, why cognitive science will produce better theories of human cognition if the field engages with neurodiversity in the same way that it values other forms of cognitive diversity. Doing so will not only empower marginalized researchers but will also present an opportunity for cognitive science to benefit from the unique contributions of neurodivergent researchers and communities.
In Our Own Way: Jung, Inner Worlds, and Trauma Recovery
Plural Positivity World Conference 2022
We look into Carl Jung’s self-experiement through the Liber Novus, the Red Book, and were astounded to discover the similarities with our own self-experimentation that started many, many years ago with the Anima Obscura. Through the historical context Shamdasani provides in his introduction and Jung’s own writing about his Inner World it seems clear that Jung could reasonably be considered plural. The existence of the Inner World is far from being some kind of maladaptive daydreaming, but is something that is not only benign, but beneficial to plurals and their selves-discovery.
Woman As Default
Written in 2021, “Woman As Default” is a short personal account of how transmisogyny has shaped the trajectory we travel in life and the implications. Published in UQ’s Contact Magazine and used as a required reading for GEND1010 in 2022 by Dr Anna Temby at the University of Queensland.