What If My Body Is A Beacon For The World?: sensing with neurodiversity
(Video and Sound Installation)
A Thesis in the School of Graduate Studies: University of Concordia
Adam Wolfond
Date: 2025
S/Pace: Neurodiversity in Relation
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture
Estée Klar & Adam Wolfond
Date: 2020
INfLx pOp up 1: Diversity in Diversity*
Immanent editing by SpaZe
Contributors: Rachel Armstrong, Simone Ferracina, Rolf Hughes, Estée Klar, Halbe Kuipers, Mayra Morales, Tito Mukhopadhyay, Francisco Trento, Adam Wolfond
Designed by Matisse ApSimon-Megens and PopFabRadPed
Date: Sept 2018
Concepts of Normality: The Autistic and Typical Spectrum
Wendy Lawson (Author), Lucy Clark (Foreword), Dinah Murray (Contributor), Estee Wolfond (Contributor)
Date: July 15, 2008
Know-Access 2017-2018
Art and Activism / Aging and Creativity / Unlearning / Aesthetics and Artistic Development / Technological Possibilities / Resources
Bodies in Translation
Estee Klar
Date: 2017
Review of Framing The Moron: The Social Construction of Feeblemindedness in the American Eugenic Era by Gerald O’Brien
Critical Disability Discourses
Estée Klar
Date: 2016
Adam Wolfond and Estée Klar Go Outside the Lines
Niv Magazine: Issue 23
Author Orly Zebak
Date: 2024
Between interruptions: 30 women tell the truth about motherhood
Author Cory Howard - Estée Klar
Date: 2007
The Co-Production of Autism in the film Wretches & Jabberers
Wretches & Jabberers. Dir. Gerardine Wurzburg. State of the Art, Inc., 2010. DVD.
Reviewed by Estée Klar for the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies
Date: 2015
Parent & Sibling Roundtable: Neurodiversity and Caregiving
Works in Disability Studies Quarterly, 2010, Vol 30, Issue 1
Authors: Ralph James Savarese, Pamela Block, Kristina Chew, Debra Cumberland, John Duffy, Susan Etlinger, Estée Klar, Mark Osteen, James C Wilson
Online Publication Date: 2010
Tony Caldwell Postmedia Network
Klar, Douglas and McGuire: Autism strategy masks societal exclusion of autistic Ontarians
Authors: Anne McGuire, Patty Douglas, Estée Klar
Online Publication Date: April 20, 2016
Ottawa Citizen
KronoScope: Volume 24 (2024): Issue 2 (Apr 2025(: Special Issue: Subaltern Temporalities, edited by Emily DiCarlo
Authors: Estée Klar and Adam Wolfond
Pages: 174–192
Online Publication Date: 08 Apr 2025
Publisher: Brill
Poetry Foundation: November 2024
Featuring Jane Hirshfield, Harryette Mullen, Othuke Umukoro, Rüştü Onur translated from the Turkish by Ulaş Özgün and Hüseyin Alhas. A folio on Jayne Cortez introduced by Sapphire. Plus "Hard Feelings" essays by Andrea Cohen, Randall Mann, and Graham Foust. Plus Adam Wolfond…
National Autism Conference: A Conversation with Autistic Non-Speakers
The Public Health Agency of Canada hosted a National Autism Conference on August 27, 2024. AIDE Canada was asked to interview Autistic non-speakers to share their perspective on five themes discussed during the conference.
AIDE Canada thanks their interviewees for sharing their perspectives and insights.
Chapter 3: Conversations about Language, Selfhood, and Autism
Authors: Alice Wexler and Estée Klar
Pages: 35–45
Conversation: Neurodiversity in Relation and Collaboration
Authors: Estée Klar, Alice Wexler, Rébecca Bourgault, and Catherine Rosamond
Pages: 46–47
Conceptualized as a tool to expand creativity, questioning, and experimentation in arts research, Disruption and Convergences: Generating New Conversations through Arts Research offers timely narratives, musings, and descriptions of experimental and scholarly practice that ignite new creative considerations for graduate students and aspiring arts research practitioners.
Chapter: Beyond disordered brains and mother blame
Chapter: Beyond disordered brains and mother blame
Critical issues in autism and mothering
By Patty Douglas, Estée Klar
Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of critical issues in autism and mothering in order to open up a complicated terrain of mother blame, deficit understandings of autism and biomedical regulation of mothers. We first briefly introduce the reader to historical currents in autism and mothering, tracing the emergence of autism as a brain-based difference and mothers’ labour as the presumed “fix” for the disorder. Along the way, we meet the “refrigerator mother” – that “cold” mother of the 1950s whose destructive love was thought to cause autism – as well as the “mother therapist” and “mother warrior” of today who must shore up all her resources to wage war against autism in her child. Next, the chapter introduces neurodiversity, feminist disability studies and critical autism studies as academic and activist movements that challenge this fraught terrain and offer new possibilities to understand “autism” more positively and to be in relation with those who have attracted the label of autism. Finally, we recommend future research directions that centre lived experience, embrace difference as fundamental to life, and value interdependence as both an ethics and a politics. The chapter also provides recommendations for further reading.
“Thinking With Sticks”: Autistic Life Narratives and their Material Components Sarinah O’Donoghue
Vol. 2. No. 22023 Fall/Automne-33-
“Thinking With Sticks”: Autistic Life Narratives and their Material Components
Sarinah O’Donoghue
Read this wonderful journal that cites Adam Wolfond, Estée Klar and Mel Baggs’ work.
June 2024
A Multiversal Rally: On Neurodivergence and Poetics
A Multiversal Rally: On Neurodivergence and Poetics
February 6 - 9 2024
Humanities Commons: University of Richmond
Defiça Portraits - 4th Symposium ‘Art and Access: Between Technique and Aesthetics’
Defiça Portraits - 4th Symposium ‘Art and Access: Between Technique and Aesthetics’ Friday September 22, 2023
10 am - 6 pm EST - Zoom link to follow
Un/Common Threads: Being Scene 2023
The Being Scene exhibition began over 20 years ago on the grounds of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Since, Being Scene has exhibited a juried survey of over 100 artworks by Workman Arts member artists as well as artists with lived experience who have received services from CAMH. Last year, Workman Arts introduced a smaller curated portion as part of the overall exhibit. Working closely with a guest curator, artists gave shape to compelling ideas and narratives, covering a wide range of conceptual and material approaches from diverse experiences. The exhibition has been shown in spaces such as The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto Media Arts Centre (TMAC) and at CAMH.
To watch an interview between 2023’s curator Kat Singer, Estée Klar and Adam click here:
