Dyi Huijg will soon take up a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, at the University of Roehampton, with an intersectional project on ADHD women. As a creative analyst, researcher and activist, she has co-organised several workshops on race, whiteness, feminism, generational inequalities, disability, sexuality, and activities to empower women of all backgrounds living in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Her critical comments on race, identity and women’s participation in western and non-western society are not always welcomed but they are necessary for the debate (courtesy of Astrid Runs, Lecturer at FHR School of Business in 2015).

Compiled by Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg, Sisters of Frida & University of Manchester. Academic resources: 208 entries / Third sector, government and UN reports and papers: 25 entries

You can download the reading list here via Sisters of Frida, here as a Word Doc or here as a PDF. My task was to find readings on disability to add to two modules on intersectionality.

I am a disabled woman and research intersectionality, but my own work lacked a disability focus. It was difficult, though, to find intersectional texts that look at the junction of disability and gender, but also of race, sexuality, class and other social categories. The fields of feminist, race critical and intersectionality studies do not regularly address disability.

In turn, disability studies are not convincingly intersectional either.

I realised that an intersectional disability reading list would have to look beyond said fields, so I searched quite widely and, after completing the project, I was a bit obsessed and just continued. Still, the reading list is quite limited. Either way, I hoped that the reading list could help others; they can browse it, download it, or otherwise use it as they wish.

Rather than expanding the list, I set up two reading groups to discuss texts with others.

I run the Neurodiversity Reading Group London, which is specifically open to students and non-academic folk. Similarly, Dr Kelsie Acton and I organise the Disability & Feminism Reading Group.

Both groups are interdisciplinary, international, and seek an intersectional approach. We meet online now and try to make the meetings welcoming to neurodivergent and disabled participants.