weirdos, crips and broken things: on the neurodiversity movement & futures beyond capitalism - Video

???? This film is a deep-dive into a personal/political story of (non)belonging, understanding one’s identity and finding one’s community. You’ll find a theoretical introduction to the neurodiversity movement, exploring its main ideas and arguments, intermingling them with snippets of lived experience. The narration delves into topics such as labels, mad/disabled/neurodivergent identity, oppression and collective liberation, all from within a path of becoming at home within the autistic body/mind.

It is a song, a cry and a gift towards those who have not yet found a way to understand their difference, their ‘weirdness’, their dis/abilities.

⚠️ CW: This video depicts sensory overload and flashing lights from minute 0:50 to minute 2:27.

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Sections

0:23 - 1. Am I broken?
4:31 - 2. What is this ‘neurodiversity’?
6:52 - 2.1. Neurodivergence as disability
12:35 - 2.2. On labels and belonging
15:36 - 2.3. Neurodivergent identity
17:44 - 2.4. Neurodivergent oppression
21:44 - 2.5. Compulsory neurotypicality
23:40 - 3. Towards collective liberation
25:11 - 3.1. Throwing away the master’s tools
28:51 - 3.2. On access needs and passing
32:47 - 3.3. Intersections
35:30 - 4. Crip times: resisting neoliberal cooptation and forging utopia

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???? Credits:
Robi Blaga - Writer
M. Martelli - Script Editor & Narrator
Sofia Zadar - Music Composer & Sound Designer
Mina Mimosa - Art Director, Illustrator & Frame-by-frame Animator
Aron Nor - Director, Video & Sound Editor, Animator & Narrator

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Robi Blaga is a neurodivergent non-binary activist & researcher. They are part of the autonomous social center Iedera (in Timișoara, Romania) and of the leftist anti-authoritarian podcast Leneșx Radio (Lazy Radio). They live with two cats and when they get some sleep, dream of disability futures - together.

Sofia Zadar is the alt-pop project/name of Romanian queer & neurodivergent artist Maria Sgârcitu. With their creations, they seek to sow utopian seeds of possibility in the here-and-now. Experimental, posthumanist & ecofeminist, their music speculates about collective futures and multispecies worlds.

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Illustrations inspiration credits:

The dance scenes at the end of the film were drawn after the photos of Mikaël Theimer: https://www.mikaeltheimer.com/corpset

The Mad Pride depiction in the section 2.1 is a remake of the Mad Pride logo in Romania.

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Tags: #neurodiversity, #disabilityjustice, #criptime