News & Announcements
February Newsletter
Earlier this month, AWN leadership helped to consult on the highly acclaimed autism-focused episode of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder reboot that recently aired on Disney+. The episode, which was intentionally released in February, has been praised broadly for its thoughtful portrayal of a Black family with affirming parents of a newly diagnosed autistic child.
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AWN & APOC Fund Statement on the Murder of Tyre Nichols
AWN condemns the anti-Black, white-supremacist systems and practices that caused Tyre Nichols’s untimely death. Policing in the United States is based on fear, violence, and the systemic subjugation of marginalized people, including Black and Brown people, disabled people, and LGBTQ people.
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January 2023 Newsletter
This year, 2023, is when we’re going to be building on our commitment to promote the principles of restorative and transformative justice in disability spaces. In 2022 we rolled out a new website with a Guiding Principles page that was the result of over 6 months of collaboration with Mia Mingus.
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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.
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AWN December Newsletter
Right now, December 6-8, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu is representing AWN at the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Summit hosted by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. This event is just one of the many examples of how AWN has recently been growing our voice in federal policy work.
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Giving Tuesday Email Newsletter: Supporting Autistic Trans Youth
AWN is creating a resource guide to help families support autistic trans youth. This Giving Tuesday, our youth activist Madeline Mydske is asking for your support in raising $5,000 to create this resource guide.
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AWN November Newsletter
The Club Q Shooting, the National Day of Mourning, and the Trans Day of Remembrance all demonstrate how we must continue to do our advocacy in a way that fights for gender justice, trans liberation, and racial justice for all.
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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…
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AWN October 2022 Newsletter
Happy October to everyone in the AWN community! I’m Rieko Shepherd, and I recently started working as Policy Manager at AWN. I have hit the ground running on many important health-related policy issues.
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September 2022 Newsletter
As a bi Latina trans woman, I want to wish you a Happy Latine Heritage Month and Bi Visibility Day!
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August 13 Newsletter: Race, disability, and crisis response
Details for the September 13 “Disabled BIPoC: Disrupting Danger in Crisis Response,” and the National Survey on Health and Disability.
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