News & Announcements
For over three decades, the Judge Rotenberg Center has subjected autistic and other disabled people to painful electric shock torture as a form of behavior modification to punish and control those confined there. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finally announced that a ban on the use of those electric shocks to take effect in…
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The fourth annual Autistics Present Symposium: Essential Youth Voices was a unique experience that provided a platform to center the voices of autistic youth, who are too often overlooked.
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The Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network condemns in the strongest possible terms several recent proposals and statements from the Trump White House and surrogates that advocate for a return to institutionalization and creation of new surveillance mechanisms as strategies to prevent mass gun violence. In response to several recent mass shootings, Trump and surrogates have…
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Hannah Gadsby uses her public platform to speak honestly and openly about vital issues like disability, ableism, autism, sexism, misogyny and the public health importance of vaccination, and we love her for it! And recently, AWN discovered that she loves us back! Hannah is now selling pet rocks at her New York City shows to…
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As part of our commitment to advancing social justice for all, AWN applauds all advocacy to stop the shocks and end all forms of abuse and torture at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, Massachusetts. AWN supports the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network’s (ASAN) new toolkit for organizing local action and advocacy against the shocks, out…
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Autistic Women & Nonbinary (AWN) Network strongly condemns a recent act of anti-Semitic violence that took the lives of eleven Jewish people and has shaken a community locally and nationally, including a pair of brothers with intellectual disabilities. On October 27, 2018, a gunman entered the Tree of Life * Or L’Simcha, a Jewish synagogue…
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Last week, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is considering a proposal to roll back protections for transgender people across multiple federal agencies. These protections originally came from the Obama White House. Trump’s new proposal will narrow the definition of gender as follows: “The sex listed on a person’s birth certificate, as…
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In May 2018 the United States, under the administration of Donald Trump, implemented a policy to forcibly seize minor children from their parents when undocumented families are apprehended crossing the border. When these families, who cross the border to enter the US in hopes of seeking asylum, are caught, officials charge the parents with a…
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For the students, teachers, and staff of Houston-area Santa Fe High School, their morning began like any other day, but it ended in tragedy as 10 individuals (9 students and 1 teacher) were murdered by a shooter and several others were injured and/or traumatized. The alleged perpetrator is currently in police custody and several individuals…
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For years, Autism Women’s Network has been a tremendous source of support and of community outreach run for and by actually autistic people. I am so excited to announce that effective July 1, Autism Women’s Network’s new name will be “Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network”. As a person who is both non binary and autistic,…
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