Critical and Intersectional ADHD Studies
Part of my work is to contribute to an area that could be called Critical and Intersectional ADHD Studies or CI-ADHD Studies. It is not necessary to understand this as a ‘separate field of studies’ – it overlaps with or perhaps fits in Critical and Intersectional Disability Studies, Neurodiversity Studies, Sick Studies, Mad Studies, and Intersectionality Studies – including e.g. Feminist and Gender Studies, Critical Race Studies, LGBTQIA Studies – as well as ADHD Studies more generally.
I contribute to various initiatives:
- My own research about ADHD knowledge construction and contributions to CI-ADHD Studies
- My research ‘ADHD Women: Resisting Neuronormativity’
- I organised and presented on the panel on ‘ADHD and race‘
- I facilitated the ADHD Reading Group in 2022 and 2024
- I am the guest editor, with Dr Eric Olund, of the special issue ‘Critical and Intersectional ADHD Thought: ADHDers Think Back’ that will be published in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (find here the 2024 CfP)
- I lead the international ADHD research team of the Co-Constructing ADHD Pedagogy project
- We (Eric and I) organised five in-person and virtual panels from the special issue at the biannual 2024 Leeds Disability Studies Conference
- I organise and facilitate two roundtables at the 2025 Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference ‘Directions/Intersections/Contradictions’ in Durham. One of the roundtables is called “Building Critical and Intersectional ADHD Studies (CI-ADHD Studies) Together”
As it is very difficult to find resources that offer critical and intersectional contributions to thinking about ADHDness, ADHD lives, and anti-ADHD neuroableism, you can find academic reading suggestions here.