resources & references from my talks

I will continue to update this page with information and links that relate to each talk’s topic as I find them


creating the world you want to live in: activism is more than you think

Books

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
Sarah Schulman
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016
Get it from the library
Argues that conflating ordinary interpersonal conflict with abuse—through overstatement, exaggeration, or group-based shunning—undermines genuine accountability and repair, and calls instead for communities to develop the skills to distinguish real harm from discomfort and to engage difficult conflicts directly rather than escalating or avoiding them.

podcast series

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
adrienne maree brown
AK Press, 2017
Get it from the library
Draws on lessons from nature—especially patterns seen in murmurations, fractals, and biomimicry—to offer a framework for social movements and personal life emphasizing small, intentional actions, adaptability, and interdependence as the building blocks of large-scale transformative change.

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
adrienne maree brown
AK Press, 2019
Get it from the library
Argues that reclaiming and prioritizing pleasure, joy, and desire—rather than treating activism as purely about struggle and sacrifice—is itself a radical, sustaining political practice essential to liberation and lasting social change.

We Will Not Cancel Us And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
adrienne maree brown
AK Press, 2020
Get it from the library
Makes the case for transformative justice over "cancel culture," arguing that movements need practices of accountability, healing, and compassion—even toward those who cause harm—in order to build the kind of relationships and communities capable of sustaining real liberation.

Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
adrienne maree brown 
AK Press, 2021
Get it from the library
Offers a practical guide to facilitation and mediation rooted in emergent strategy, presenting skills, principles, and reflections for holding respectful, adaptive space for groups navigating conflict, decision-making, and collective transformation.

Loving Corrections 
adrienne maree brown
AK Press, 2024
Get it from the library
Reflections on accountability and growth, offering gentle but honest course-corrections—drawn from her own writing and public engagement—as a model for how communities can address mistakes and harm with love rather than punishment.

Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies
Andrea J. Ritchie 
AK Press, 2023
Get it from the library
Explores how abolitionist organizing requires not just dismantling oppressive systems but simultaneously building and practicing new structures, relationships, and ways of collaborating—using emergent strategy principles to guide movements toward the just futures they envision.

Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
carla bergman and Nick Montgomery 
AK Press, 2017
Get it from the library
Critiques the rigid, punitive, and joyless tendencies ("rigid radicalism") that can infect activist spaces, proposing instead a resistance rooted in flexibility, care, friendship, and joy as more sustainable and liberatory foundations for social movements.

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (editors)
AK Press, 2020
Get it from the library
Compiles firsthand stories, strategies, and lessons from organizers and survivors practicing transformative justice, documenting real-world efforts to address violence and harm without relying on policing or prisons.

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Dean Spade
Verso Books, 2020
Get it from the library
Offers a practical and political introduction to mutual aid work, explaining how collective, solidarity-based survival programs can meet immediate needs while also building grassroots power and challenging the systems that create crisis in the first place.

Love in a Fucked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together 
Dean Spade
Algonquin Books, 2025
Get it from the library
Offers candid, practical guidance for building healthier romantic, sexual, and platonic relationships—arguing that the skills of communication, conflict navigation, and mutual care learned in our personal lives are directly linked to our capacity for collective liberation and social movement work.

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
Prentis Hemphill
Random House, 2025
Get it from the library
Weaves personal memoir with insights on somatics and collective liberation; individual healing and inner transformation are essential, inseparable companions to the work of building social change.

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Tricia Hersey
Little Brown Spark, 2022
Get it from the library
Argues that rest is a fundamental human right and a radical act of resistance against capitalism and white supremacy's grind culture, reclaiming sleep, naps, and stillness as necessary tools for healing and liberation.

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes
Haymarket Books, 2023
Get it from the library
Offers grounded lessons and reflections from frontline organizing, arguing that sustainable movements are built through reciprocal care, collective grief work, and hope practiced as a discipline rather than a feeling.

Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Practitioners
Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
Project NIA/Just Practice, 2019
(not available from the library)
A hands-on workbook offering exercises, worksheets, and guidance to help practitioners build the skills, confidence, and structures needed to facilitate community-based accountability processes.

Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Kelly Hayes 
AK Press, 2025
Get it from the library
A collection of curated letters from organizers and activists—including Mariame Kaba, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and others—offering personal, hard-won wisdom on grief, burnout, and despair as sustenance for continuing the work of collective liberation.

Calling In: How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel
Loretta J. Ross
Simon & Schuster, 2026
Get it from the library
Makes the case for engaging people who've caused harm or hold offensive views through compassionate dialogue rather than public shaming, arguing this approach is more effective at fostering genuine growth and building the broad coalitions needed for lasting social change.

It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History
Editors: Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini, Erin Yanke
PM Press, 2023
Get it from the library
An oral history compiling firsthand accounts from organizers in Portland's Anti-Racist Action, Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, and Coalition for Human Dignity, documenting how disparate groups united in the 1980s-90s to confront white nationalist violence following the murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw.

Burn It Down & Burned Out: The Revolution Will Be Neurodivergent 
Alethea Shapiro
Self-Published, 2026
(not available from the library)
Part memoir and part political analysis, it explores the deep intersections between neurodivergence (such as autism and ADHD), systemic burnout, and political organizing.

Andrewism
YouTube Channel, 2020 - present
Hosted and produced by Andrew Sage
(solarpunk, anarchism, library economies, rethinking school, the problems with the State/tech/capitalism, etc)

(I encourage you to explore more podcasts from these shows—I selected one from each show that spoke to my talk the most, but there are so many good episodes out there)

Joyful Militancy w/ Carla Bergman & Nick Montgomery
The Solecast; Feb 8, 2019
(a critical examination of the toxicity that seems to be so common within activist subculture; the influences that schooling, religion, hierarchy, and Empire have on our lives and how they seep into our organizing)

Doomer Joy, with Nick Montgomery
Grounded Futures Show: Season 2, Episode 11; Sep 14, 2021
(“As radicals we need to offer a different exit from middle class life”; finding joy and humor amid many disasters)

adrienne maree brown on Future Visioning, Layered Time and Grief // Microcosms of Liberation, Justice and Pleasure
All That We Are, Episode 146, Apr 7, 2022
(“In ​the ​face ​of ​overwhelm, ​we ​do ​need ​spiritual ​practice. Rituals of grief and spiritual healing can bring us closer to our free and pleasurable futures.”)

Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing
Pod Save America Offline, Episode 428; Jan 23, 2022
(our attention is a finite, precious resource; we choose what to focus it on, and it doesn’t always need to be productive)

To Become Ungovernable (Featuring Gopal Dayaneni and Elena Letona)
Economics for Emancipation, Episode 3; Jun 25, 2021
(a discussion of the interconnections between social movements and the foundations for revolution)

Practicing New Worlds with Andrea J. Ritchie
One Million Experiments: Season 2, Episode 19; Dec 21, 2023
(how coming together in open-minded curiosity can sustain us as people and communities in the face of state violence)

Burnout Is Not Inevitable: Building Movements That Can Hold Us
Movement Memo, November 13, 2025
(“Care really should be at the center of our strategy, of our analysis, and of our practice”—Aaron Goggans)

Everyone vs ICE: On the Ground In Minnesota with James Stout and Margaret Killjoy
It Could Happen Here: Pt. 2, 27 Jan 2026 
(“The best thing you can do is start to form community, and it could be in so many ways”)

Let This Radicalize You w/ Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes
Death Panel, May 18, 2023
(facts alone rarely move people to actionrelationships and empathy do; rejecting the myth that humans are inherently selfish; reciprocal care, mutual aid, and small collective actionsnot despair or grand gesturesare what sustain movements and get people through crises)

I Want to Report a Theft
Resistance, February 17, 2021
(Mwazulu Diyabanza took back Congolese funerary posts from a Paris museum to protest stolen artifacts)

Hot Girl (Socialism) Summer
Vibe Check: Episode 255, July 8th, 2026
(how Democratic Socialists wins are changing peoples’ minds, plus peoples’ growing comfort with turning surveillance into entertainment)

podcast episodes

Guardians and Protectors!
The Emerald; Sep 2, 2024
(particularly the section about protecting one’s eyes from social media, starting at timestamp 2:03:21

Singing Resistance
Singing Resistance National Toolkit
Singing Resistance PDX
(Sing “publicly in the streets for the sake of solace, strength, solidarity, to voice our dissent, and to refuse cooperation with oppressive and autocratic forces”)

Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective
Readings & Other Media
(The Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective is a community group based out of Oakland, CA working to build and support transformative justice responses to harm and violence)

Mariame Kaba: Everything Worthwhile Is Done With Other People
Adi Magazine
Article by Eve L. Ewing and Mariame Kaba
(“I’m on a 500-year clock right now. I’m right here knowing that we’ve got a hell of a long time before we’re going to see the end. Right now, all we’re doing is building the conditions that will allow the thing to happen.”)

Who Is Remembered, Lives: Pilgrimage In Empire, a Report
Subversion Through Friendliness
Essay by Moe Bowstern 
(An elegy of the grief of the large, the small, the historical, and the present crushing complexity of modernity)

Living In the Backswing
Subversion Through Friendliness
Essay by Moe Bowstern 
(amazing essay about the intersections of personal, community, and global trauma and ways to hold it better)

Why They’re Winning - And What We Can Do About It
The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook
Essay by Scot Nakagawa
(outlines a strategy that the authoritarians deployed that we can build upon)

How do we keep going: activist burnout and personal sustainability in social movements
Paper by Laurence Cox, National University of Ireland Maynooth (2011)
(a paper about the complexities of personal sustainability in social movements)

Sustaining Ourselves as Activists
The Commons Social Change Library
(Activist wisdom gathered from a survey of nearly 200 about how to sustain ourselves as activists)

Sustainable Activism and Self Care
Amnesty International Australia (2020)
(includes a “burnout test” that you can use to tell if you are at risk of burnout) 

Mindful Occupation: Rising Up without Burning Out
Occupy Mental Health Project zine (2012)
(a manual for organizers and participants, from the the #occupy movement by a group of organizers with years of experience practicing peer-based community mental health support)

The Social Capital Worksheet
Andrewism
(see also “The Double-Edged Sword of Social Capital” video)

Neurodivergent folks care deeply. But getting involved in activism isn’t always easy
Article by Sage EF Coaching
(5 very valid reasons why neurodivergent folks may feel anxious about getting involved in activism.)

Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing
Article at Stimpunks Foundation
(includes many great video links)

Letter To a Young Activist During Troubled Times
Essay by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. 
(“My dear friends: Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.”)

T.A.C.T. Trauma Aware Conflict Transformation: In It Together
rain crowe, 5-session training (prerequisites required)
(Because conflict doesn't resolve, it just transforms)

The Burning Times Never Ended: Remembering Resistance & A Story of Disenchantment
rain crowe, 6-week training (prerequisites required)
(“Part historical scholarship of a disenchantment, part shadow spell-working, part mytho-poetic storytelling… re-membering, the blowing over the bones, and the rehydration of a lost part of our collective soul.”)

articles and other resources

Nervous System Regulation - Avoiding Burnout
A collection of links on self-care tips and modalities
Compiled by Sheila Hensen and Paulé Wood

Portland For All
“Working to shape Portland’s future through civic engagement, organizing, and voter education, ensuring that everyone who calls this place home has an opportunity to thrive.”
(if you want to connect with Portland elected officials, they‘re at these meetups)

How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories: Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist
Book by Dr. Jonathan Lassiter
Legacy Lit, 2025
Get it from the library
(A pointed critique of racism in the mental health field)

The Homophobic Violence Documentation Project (HVDP) was a community-based initiative in Portland, Oregon, launched in August 1991 by the Lesbian Community Project. It provided a confidential reporting hotline and tracked hate incidents, harassment, and violence against LGBTQ+ individuals during a volatile era of rising right-wing and anti-queer organizing in the Pacific Northwest. 

Comment from chat: (in 1991, pre-Internet) “[HVDP] was an answering machine & organizers went on a ‘speaking tour’ of portland to let people know what it was, since the cops/city were not tracking gay bashing”

Suggestion from the chat: “One of my neighbors started a group chat for everyone on my street. It started as just a cute thing but it became an ICE/police warning system, child care, food share, etc”

Comment from the chat: “Getting elders to gatherings is activism”

Moe Bowstern resources
Note from Paulé: Moe has been writing and editing zines for a stretch of time now, I highly recommend her work.

  • Substack: Subversion through Friendliness

  • Monthly potluck: Umbrellas in the Shitstorm (announced through her Substack)

  • Potluck zine: What's Goin’ On (get it at the potluck)

  • Moe also wrote a zine about starting a protest choir called Activist Pastries For Everyone, she organized a protest chorus for 10 years, The Amalgamated Everlasting Union Chorus

  • Get her zines at her potluck or write to: PO Box 6834, Portland 97228

  • See more of Moe’s zines at Microcosm Publishing or Antiquated Future

Comment from the chat: “Speaking of Mic Crenshaw, Union leader Kieran Knutson who spoke on Democracy Now during the Minneapolis ICE stuff started Anti Racist Action with Mic when they were teenagers”

Podcast: The Necessary Conversation
Comment from the chat: “This podcast is an incredible example of if you stay in relation and have patience hearts and minds can be changed - watching the mom here go from full MAGA brainwashing to now being against ICE, getting access to her empathy back - is very heartening.”

Cascadia Stack is a local group that provides support for climate change grief

Book recommendation: Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress by Manuela Mischke-Reeds (note: the author does not reference sources for these many practices; it would be preferred and respectful if she did with so much appropriation going on)

Aaron Johnson resources

  • Holistic Resistance: anti-racist, pro-Blackness facilitator trainings, workshops, song circles, parenting programs, grief circles, mobile events and tours

  • Grief to Action: land-based sanctuary in the Mojave Desert, Black-led, centering African-heritage folks and all People of the Global Majority. “We hold space for the deep grief and rage that gives birth to the creative solutions we need to resist oppressive systems.”  

  • Chronically Undertouched Project (CUT) and The Touch Activist Program (TAP)

  • Dark & Tender: A short film that follows ten Black men on their journey into healing through platonic touch and communal care

The Grief House in Portland and Atlanta do virtual and in-person grief gatherings of all kinds

Comment about local mutual aid: “i do some low key mutual aid- basically picking up and dropping off food/ pet food and supplies- it feels more accessible (not sure if you have access to transporting things) and autonomous”

Comment about volunteering where there are clear expectations: Food banks. Needle exchange.

Comment about working locally: “I feel that often local issues are often more ‘safe’ - if you start finding the injustices in your city or even neighborhood and working there you're less likely to end up on a ‘list’"

Comment about surveillance: “I had a similar experience in street protesting and developed ptsd after the WTO in Seattle & Mayday 2000. I used to wear wigs and adopt a persona as a public radio volunteer from the suburbs and talked in a strong midwestern accent & i could attend”

Comment about witch activism: “I do witch stuff for a national civil rights activist & it’s shocking how much they feel supported & it doesn’t “ feel” like activism to me but it’s huge for them to have a witch to ask about stuff”

Comment about fostering youth: Oh ya foster youth - it is SO important if you can volunteer with youth who have no support - prevent houselessness this way!

Comment about getting involved in local politics:I recently ran for public office, and dropped out this week. For 2.5 years, I ran my mouth, and never asked for money. I learned the political circus, i recommend that everyone get involved in local politics, in some form. I grew quite a bit!

Comments about deciding if a group is for you: “Could make a plan to commit to 3 meetings and then assess. The buddy system!!”

Wild Rose Resistance Choir (Formerly known as Ceasefire Chorus)
Note from Paulé: I’ve been super-interested in the Yelling Choir, but haven’t made it out to any of their things yet 

recommendations from people who attended the talk

books

It Did Happen Here 
11 episodes, plus bonus episodes, released Nov 2020 - May 2021
Hosted & produced by Celina Flores, Mic Crenshaw, Erin Yanke, Icky A., Moe Bowstern
(The story of how disparate groups used a diversity of tactics to fight neo-nazi violence and right wing organizing in the Rose City in the 1980s and 90s)

Upstream
Conversations, series, and documentaries, 2016 to the present (too many good episodes to list)
Hosted & produced by Della Duncan and Robert Ramin Raymond
(a weekly show of conversations for political education featuring a wide variety of  post capitalist, anti-imperialist, and socialist voices)

Scene On Radio
Season 2: Seeing White (the history of whiteness in the United States)
Season 3: MEN (the history of sexism, patriarchy, and misogyny)
Season 4: The Land That Never Has Been Yet (an upending of American history)
Season 5: The Repair (the cultural roots of our ecological crisis and deep changes and choices needed)
Season 6: Echoes of a Coup (the end of Reconstruction and the beginnings of Jim Crow)
Season 7, Capitalism (a history of capitalism from Europe 500 years ago - present, plus alternatives)
Hosted & produced by John Biewen, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Celeste Headlee, Amy Westervelt, Ellen McGirt, Loretta Williams

Comment about productive dissociation, when I mentioned pretending that I’m an anthropologist in new groups: “Omg i pretend I am an extraterrestrial!”


“normal” was manufactured: neurodiversity and Loneliness

Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
Pluto Books, 2023
Robert Chapman
Exploring the rich histories of the neurodiversity and disability movements, Chapman shows how the rise of capitalism created an 'empire of normality' that transformed our understanding of the body into that of a productivity machine.

The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market & State
Edited by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich
Levellers Press, 2012
(not available from the library)
73 essays, by an international roster of activists, academics, and project leaders, explore of how commons-based approaches—shared resources managed collectively rather than through private markets or state control—offer viable alternatives for meeting human needs while fostering sustainability, equity, and community self-governance.

Autistic and Black: Our Experiences of Growth, Progress, and Empowerment
Kala Allen Omeiza
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2024
Get it from the library
Exploring everything from self-love and appreciation, to the harsh realities of police brutality, anti-Black racism, and barriers to care, as well as amplifying the voices of the inspiring advocates who actively work towards change, protection, and acceptance for themselves and others, this book is an empowering force, reminding you that as a Black autistic person, you are enough. 

The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018
Get it from the library
Radical self-love—rather than mere self-esteem or body positivity—is a necessary practice and political tool for dismantling body-based oppression and building a world where all bodies are honored without shame or apology.

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Devon Price
Harmony, 2022
Get it from the library
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society's narrow understanding of neurodiversity 

Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically
Devon Price 
Harmony Books, 2025
Get it from the library
Live your best, unashamedly unmasked Autistic life with this invaluable resource featuring tools for navigating friendships, family, work, and love. 

Radical Intimacy
Sophie K Rosa
Pluto Press, 2023
Get it from the library
Capitalism shapes and constrains our capacity for connection—across self-care, romance, family, home, and death—and calls for reimagining intimacy as a collective, political site of resistance rather than an individualized, commodified pursuit.

Laziness Does Not Exist: A Defense of the Exhausted, Exploited, and Overworked
Devon Price 
Atria Books, 2022 
Get it from the library
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a fascinating and thorough examination of what they call the "laziness lie"—which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard enough—filled with practical and accessible advice for overcoming society's pressure to "do more."

Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power
Devon Price
Harmony Books, 2024
Get it fom the library
Learn to identify—and combat—systemic shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from living in a society that blames individuals for systemic problems.

We're All Neurodiverse: How to Build a Neurodiversity-Affirming Future and Challenge Neuronormativity
Sonny Jane Wise
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2023
Get it from the library
Explores the intersections of neurodivergence with disability, gender, sexuality and race through interviews and narratives and how current systems and structures that impact neurodivergent people are rooted in outdated capitalist and racist frameworks, and how these need to change and adapt to be neurodiversity affirming.

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Pluto Press, 2023
Get it from the library
Mental health is a political rather than purely personal issue, connecting the history of asylums and psychiatry to capitalism, racism, disability justice, and queer liberation to advocate for a radical reimagining of care beyond pathologization and institutional control.

Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
Dr. Nick Walker
Autonomous Press, 2021
(not available form the library)
A collection of essays laying out foundational concepts of the neurodiversity paradigm—including the term "neuroqueer"; argues for a radical shift away from pathologizing neurological difference toward embracing autistic/neurodivergent ways of being as valid, diverse expressions of human variation.

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Ashley Shew
W. W. Norton & Company, 2023
(not available form the library)
To forge a more equitable world, we must eliminate “technoableism”―the harmful belief that technology is a “solution” for disability, that the disabled simply await being “fixed” by technological wizardry, and that making society more accessible and equitable is somehow a lesser priority.

blogs and articles

Dr Devon Price
Substack 
Devon Price, PhD, is a trans social psychologist, professor, author, and proud Autistic person. He lives in Chicago, where he serves as an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago's School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Neurodivergent Parenting
Substack
An Autistic graduate of the University of Michigan. I'm also a parent and early childhood educator. I offer peer support to ND Parents, and to parents of ND kids, with a focus on improving self-regulation skills and enhancing communication.

The Punk Rock Autistic
Website
A queer, autistic self-advocate who believes that the autistic experience should be celebrated. My career background is in social work, disability direct support and care, education, and case management.

On Being Young, Neurodivergent and Black
Article by Nikki Adebiyi, Founder @ Bounce Black
“It was only last year that I publicly identified myself as part of the neurodivergent community, and that, too, only came about as a result of being named on the 2023 Top 50 Influential Neurodivergent Women list. Prior to then, I only disclosed my dyspraxic traits on a need-to-know basis due to fear of stigmatisation and stereotypes.”

Specters of Fear: Monstrosity and the Marginalized Otherness in Gothic Literature
Article by Alex de Borba
Explore the roots of monstrosity in Gothic literature, from Enlightenment rationalism to Romanticism’s sublime, where the monstrous reflects societal anxieties—xenophobia, racial otherness, and disability—symbolizing repressed fears amid modernity’s uncertainties

teachers & courses

rain crowe: Refugia Village Mystery School & Dream Temple
Basics of Animist Magical Practices, Connecting With Ancestors, The Burning Times Never Ended, Longing to Belong, T.A.C.T (Trauma Aware Conflict Transformation), The Wylder Edge

Sheila Henson: ADHD Coach
”As an experienced ADHD Coach, I'm passionate about guiding individuals towards managing their relationships, emotions, and behaviors with greater ease and understanding. I help clients navigate their unique challenges while promoting self-acceptance, personal growth, and sustainable change. Through my personalized coaching approach and extensive experience, I empower individuals to overcome obstacles and embrace their true potential.”

podcasts

Uniquely Human: The Podcast
Uniquely Human: the Podcast expands the conversation on autism and neurodiversity by amplifying the voices of autistic and neurodivergent individuals and thought leaders in providing insightful, cutting-edge and practical information about the autistic and neurodivergent experience. Hosted by Barry Prizant and Dave Finch.

Neurodivergent Moments
Hosted by Joe Wells and Abigoliah Schamaun
Neurodivergent Moments shine a light into the world of our diverse minds. Each episode, ADHD Abigoliah and Autistic Joe, speak to a guest with a neurodivergence about their divergence, life, career and how they navigate the neurotypical society we live in. Lighthearted, sincere and insightful, Neurodivegent Moments is a journey into the diverse world of our differently wired brains and the people who own them. ADHD, Autism, OCD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Borderline Personality Disorder and more are all topics of conversation.

Meet My Autistic Brain
Hosted by The Autistic Woman
What is it like to find out late in life that you are autistic? The Autistic Woman talks about life experiences and how autistic traits affect her as an adult. You'll hear personal stories, opinions about research and the importance of autistic voices. Includes some fun stuff too! This podcast is primarily for adult autistics and their family and friends. It's one of the top 0.5% most popular shows globally as ranked by Listen Score.

Part One: All Hail King Ludd: How the Luddites Almost Saved Us
Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff
Margaret talks with Robert Evans about the English rebels who threw on dresses, declared a fake person their leader, and set about fighting the Industrial Revolution

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
adrienne maree brown
AK Press, 2017
Get it from the library
Draws on lessons from nature—especially patterns seen in murmurations, fractals, and biomimicry—to offer a framework for social movements and personal life emphasizing small, intentional actions, adaptability, and interdependence as the building blocks of large-scale transformative change.

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
adrienne maree brown
AK Press, 2019
Get it from the library
Argues that reclaiming and prioritizing pleasure, joy, and desire—rather than treating activism as purely about struggle and sacrifice—is itself a radical, sustaining political practice essential to liberation and lasting social change.

We Will Not Cancel Us And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
adrienne maree brown
AK Press, 2020
Get it from the library
Makes the case for transformative justice over "cancel culture," arguing that movements need practices of accountability, healing, and compassion—even toward those who cause harm—in order to build the kind of relationships and communities capable of sustaining real liberation.