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Neuro-GLAM-erous: Big Tent Organizing with Neurodivergent GLAM Workers in Canada
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After the success of the Ontario College and University Library Association’s (OCULA) 2022 conference “Neurodiversity in the Library” a group of neurodivergent library workers sought to maintain the momentum of the event by starting the Neuro-GLAM-erous Canada Discord server. Conceived as a place for neurodivergent gallery, library, archive, and museum workers to share their interests, experiences, research, and mutual aid, the server has grown to over a hundred members.
NeuroGLAM2023, which took place on August 11th, 2023, was the group’s first professional conference and was attended by over fifty GLAM workers. This talk will provide an overview of neurodiversity as a “big tent” concept, reflect on some rewards and challenges of organizing in neurodivergent spaces, and suggest some of the areas where neurodivergent workers deepen discussions in LIS. For example, neurodivergent and other disabled workers are well-placed to trouble discourses of expertise when it comes to medicalized identities. Autistic self-advocates have a long history of critiquing the “evidence based” claims surrounding interventions such as applied behaviour analysis. Participants will also be asked to consider the place of trauma and emotional processing in the workplace, the “dilemma of disclosure” invariably faced by disabled workers, benefits and concerns around virtual organizing, and the implications of autistic and ADHD participants being the dominant voices in neurodivergent spaces today.
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- 2024-04-19
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