Articles

Ne’eman, A., & Pellicano, E. (2022). Neurodiversity as politics. Human development, 66(2), 149.

Lawson, A., & Beckett, A. E. (2020). The social and human rights models of disability: towards a complementarity thesis. The International Journal of Human Rights, 25(2), 348–379

Guest readers: Catarina Vitorino (Associação Centro de Vida Independente) and Eva Marques (Lia Wolf) (Associação Portuguesa Voz do Autista)

Presentation of texts: Rita Serra e Fernando Fontes

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Bio notes

Catarina Vitorino is a PhD student in Clinical and Health Psychology at the Centre for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive-Behavioural Intervention of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra. She is a disabled woman and defines herself as an anti-capacity, feminist and intersectional activist. She is currently a board member of the Independent Living Centre Association, co-coordinator of the Coimbra branch of the same association and co-founder of the feminist collective As DEsaFiantes. She has been involved in various projects with the European Network for Independent Living and is constantly liaising with other social movements at national level.

Eva Marques (aka ‘Lia Wolf’), 51, divorced, was born in Bragança and lives in Porto. Woman, mother, daughter, carer, neurodivergent, restless, unusual, creator of solutions. She has a vast and varied background, from engineering (UTAD) to veterinary medicine (ICBAS-UP), her main activity for almost 30 years has been as a trainer (teaching adults), and in recent years she has collaborated with various associations (cultural and NGOs) and acted as a lecturer and coordinator (and participant) in projects (national and international); she is an activist for human rights in general and for minorities, the disabled and neurodivergents in particular.