News & Announcements
Comments to Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC)
We encourage the Committee to prioritize funding for research on the disparities and inequities in
service provision and outcomes that autistic people of color, queer and transgender autistic people,
and autistic immigrants and refugees face.
AWN 2022 Year-in-Review
I can’t believe that another year has come and gone and we’re less than two weeks away from 2023! AWN has had an incredible year, and as the executive director I am proud of what our team has accomplished in 2022. We’ve continued to grow our voice on the national stage and expanded the ways we serve our community — while at the same time inviting others to join us in moving the neurodiversity movement towards justice-centered work.
Read More →AWN and the Autistic People of Color Fund grieve our losses to anti-queer and anti-trans violence in Colorado Springs
“Mourn for the dead and fight like hell for the living.” – Mother Jones As organizations long led by many queer and trans autistic people, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and the Autistic People…
Read More →Vice President Harris invites AWN’s Lydia X. Z. Brown to speak at disability and reproductive rights roundtable
July 26, 2022 marked the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act’s signing into law. To commemorate the occasion, Vice President Kamala Harris invited Lydia X. Z. Brown, AWN’s Director of Policy, Advocacy, &…
Read More →Everyone Deserves to Make Their Own Choices: A plain language statement about abortion rights and reproductive freedom
The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, the Autistic People of Color Fund, and the National Women’s Law Center believe that all people should have control of their bodies.
Read More →Disability Organizations Respond to the Overturning of Roe v Wade
The decision upends a core value at the heart of American life and law: that we each enjoy the individual liberty to make certain personal decisions without government interference. The very lives of disabled people depend upon the ability to make personal decisions without interference – including decisions about our bodies and medical care.
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