Sister Shack is a Black and Queer-led Activist and intersectional Feminist CIC whose work centres around social justice and community inclusion for marginalised people, based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

They focus on working with and promoting women and non-binary entrepreneurs, LGBTQIA+ communities, Global Majority communities, creatives, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and DJs. They highlight and discuss issues and experiences faced by those most marginalised and aim to provide safer spaces, information, support, guidance, and more.

A 2024 study into the benefits of Body Doubling by Tessa Eagle, Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony and Kathryn E. Ringland.

“Body doubling has emerged as a community-driven phenomenon primarily employed by neurodivergent individuals. In this work, we survey 220 people to investigate how, when, and why they engage in body doubling and their own definitions for it.”

A 2023 article by Devon Price unpacking body doubling, “executive dysfunction,” and the pathology model of ADHD.

“Many of the challenges of having ADHD could easily be addressed with interventions that are social rather than medical — but such an approach is nearly impossible for our current mental healthcare system to make sense of, or profit from. And so, for now, ADHDers and those of us who love them are stuck inventing our own solutions, and providing one another with the best support that we can.”

“Our needs and strengths interlocked perfectly, as is so often the case in ADHer-Autistic friendships. When psychology and psychiatry had little to offer us but stigma and self-blame, we took care of one another. We each needed other people. And that was the exact opposite of being disordered.”

Written by Sins Invalid, these principles guide us towards collective access and liberation, through intersectional, anti-capitalist, cross-disability, sustainable interdependence.

“Sins Invalid recognizes that we will be liberated as whole beings—as disabled, as queer, as Black, as Brown, as trans/nonbinary, as exactly who and how we are. We know we are far greater whole than divided. We recognize that our allies emerge from many communities and that demographic identity alone does not determine one’s commitment to liberation.”

Neuk (/njuːk/):  noun, Scots.

1.  A nook; corner
2. A collective carving out a place for neurodivergent artists in a neurotypical world 

A community of and for neurodivergent artists. Their work focuses on advocating for neurodivergent people in the arts. Although based in Scotland, many of their events take place online.

A DIY organisation that facilitates remote events that centre crip, sick and disabled people. They also run a newsletter that publishes work by crip, sick and/or disabled people. They are guided by the principles of Disability Justice, as described by Sins Invalid.

A safe and generative space that accommodates the diverse, individual needs of scholars working in the humanities, while offering a shared sense of community and support.

They believe that centering neurodivergent perspectives in academia and beyond will pave new avenues for collaboration, research, and methodological development. They explore new modes of thinking, being, and doing research in ways that better support our needs within and beyond institutional structures and practices.

An organisation creating space and solidarity for neurodivergent-identifying artists who work in (or with) performance, across discipline, career level, and location across Scotland. As a neurodivergent-led organisation, it is driven to support and facilitate neurodivergent community and culture within the Scottish performance sector, whilst nurturing and promoting the creative practices of neurodivergent artists in its network.

First started by Kai Syng Tan, the Network is a creative and inclusive space to explore the messy and magical entanglements between ‘neurodiversity’, ‘creativity’ and ‘research’, and the rich spectra of possibilities and intersections in between, and importantly, through not just an anti-ableist but decolonised, internationalised, anti-racist, anti-misogynistic perspective, while also being critical of the traps of essentialism and exceptionalism.

The alliance is a hub/co-creative platform to share, discuss, debate, motivate, interrogate and support one another’s practice and research as critical friends. Collectively seek to make neurodiversity in research and the contributions of neurodivergent researchers more visible, and make research culture more inclusive. 

Dr Dyi Huijg has been running a series of ND and disability reading groups with an intersectional focus, including one dedicated to cripping pedagogy, ADHD, and many other topics. You can find more info about the current reading group schedule as well as reading lists and archived materials from past reading groups on their website.