Julia Bascom
Julia Bascom is an American autism rights activist. She is the current Deputy Executive Director of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) and will be replacing Ari Ne'eman as president of ASAN in 2017.[1]
Advocacy work
Bascom has previously worked on the New Hampshire State Developmental Disabilities Council,[2] and is currently on the Disability Equality Index advisory board committee.[3] She also serves on the boards of Advance CLASS, Inc. and the Centene National Advisory Council on Disability.[4] She is currently the Deputy Executive Director of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) and will be replacing Ari Ne'eman as president of ASAN in 2017.
Loud Hands Project
Bascom organized and founded the Loud Hands project. Loud Hands was designed to be a "transmedia project", that is, one that uses "multiple forms of content--written words, videos, visual art, the internet, and more".[5] The project was launched in December 2011 as crowdfunding campaign to create an anthology of essays written by autistic people.[6] The resulting anthology, Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking, was described as "groundbreaking" in Steve Silberman's Neurotribes.[7]
Bibliography
- Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking (8 December 2012) (editor)
- And Straight on Till Morning: Essays on Autism Acceptance (28 March 2013) (editor)
- The Obsessive Joy of Autism (21 May 2015)
References
- ↑ Ne'eman, Ari (18 July 2016). "A Message from ASAN President Ari Ne'eman". autisticadvocacy.org. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ↑ "Council Members". nhddc.org. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012.
- ↑ "DEI Advisory Committee". disabilityequalityindex.org. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ↑ "Staff – Autistic Self Advocacy Network". autisticadvocacy.org. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ↑ Bascom, Julia, ed. (2012). Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking. Washington, DC: The Autistic Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-938800-02-3.
- ↑ Zurcher, Ariane. "A Conversation With the Talented Writer, Blogger and All-Around Amazing Julia Bascom", The Huffington Post, September 1, 2013. Accessed August 27, 2016.
- ↑ Silberman, Steve (2015). Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently (1st ed.). Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. p. 446. ISBN 978-1-760-11363-6.