@ombretarragnat
🐁 PhD student researching autism and animality (EHESS, France) ♾️ Critical Neurodiversity Studies Fellow at the IMH (Durham University, UK) 🦧 Coordinative team member at the Posthumanities Hub (Linköping, Sweden) www.ombretarragnat.com EN/FR
It might take some time but they’ll be posted on the NDHums website! Not sure they’ll be available for people who were not registered to the Eventbrite, but I guess if you have the password you can share it at your discretion 🥰
Yeeeees we have to!!! 🥰🙌🏻
Thank you so much for participating! Your talk was brilliant, I learned SO MUCH! I’m leaving with so many references and ideas to learn about 🥰
a white woman with short blonde hair and glasses is wearing a blazer shirt and headphones. on her blazer is a mad pride badge
the first slide of a powerpoint, it reads: ‘Mad(dening) Neurodiversity? Tasha Downs (she/her) Wednesday 4th March ‘Neurodiversity is More Than…’ Symposium
feeling so grateful for taking part today in the ‘neurodiversity is more than…’ symposium 😁 lots to process from the other speakers’ super important and timely presentations!! many thanks to @ombretarragnat.bsky.social, Abs Ashley and the @ndhumanities.bsky.social network for organising
Love it!!
Weird Pride is a practice of becoming. A refusal to shrink. A quiet, feral devotion to staying alive as ourselves in a world that keeps trying to make us something else
Co-Authored with @neurohubcommunity.org for @weirdpride.bsky.social
autisticrealms.com/weird-pride-...
#neuroqueer #liminalspaces
In two days! 🔥
Title slide with a textured, abstract background in teal, pink, blue, and orange paint strokes. Large white text reads: “Weird Pride & Neuroqueering from Liminal Spaces.” Subheading: “Embracing More-Than Neurodiversity.” Smaller text below: “Building belonging, advocacy, collective power, and resistance from the margins.” Footer text: “Presented by: Helen Edgar & David Gray-Hammond. 4th March 2026 for Neurodivergent Humanities Network. Neurodiversity Is More-Than….” NeuroHub Community Ltd logo appears in the bottom left, and the Autistic Realms infinity logo with “Neurodiversity Affirming” appears in the bottom right.
Looking forward to presenting Weird Pride & Neuroqueering From Liminal Spaces for @ndhumanities.bsky.social this @weirdpride.day 4th March with @neurohubcommunity.org
Organised by
@ombretarragnat.bsky.social & Abs Ashley
Free Tickets: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
I am so excited to be joining you with
@neurohubcommunity.org
Discussing:
Weird Pride and Neuroqueering from Liminal Spaces: Building belonging, advocacy, collective power, and resistance from the margins
Nicely timed for #WeirdPride Day on 4th March!
Lloyd Meadhbh Houston Title TBD Abstract TBA
Michael Lundblad More than Disanimality This talk will connect Lundblad’s work in his forthcoming book, Disanimality: When Disability, Illness, and Animality Meet (Oxford UP, 2026), to new projects such as the “Ecologies of Neurodiversity” research group and a book project (in progress) that includes the cultural history of disability institutions in the U.S. which historically did not distinguish between neurodiversity and intellectual disabilities among residents forced to live there.
Berenice Vargas García A(û)nimal/idad: potencias compartidas en un planeta hostil Talk in Spanish with English subtitles En contextos del sur global y especialmente dentro de las ciencias sociales, el estudio de la neurodiversidad ha carecido de un abordaje crítico. Por un lado, de perspectivas que desborden los reduccionismos biologicistas —cerebrocentristas y neurocentristas— y, por otro, que presten atención a las dimensiones del poder, con sus imposiciones, negociaciones y resistencias. En este trabajo me interesa hacer algunas reflexiones en torno al despliegue del antropopoder en la neuronormatividad impuesta sobre cuerpos y mentes disidentes, humanos y más-que humanos. Lo anterior, a partir de la propuesta de la figura "a(û)nimal/idad", que permite imbricar el especismo-capacitismo-colonialismo desde un enfoque antiespecista y posthumano. Tal como la comprendo —desde una encarnación autista—, devenir "a(û)nimal" implica el reconocimiento de una vulnerabilidad compartida con otros animales y de nuestra interdependencia constitutiva con los seres del mundo, así como de nuestra potencia en medio de un planeta hostil que nos llama a corresponder.
Helen Edgar and David Gray-Hammond Weird Pride and Neuroqueering from Liminal Spaces: Building belonging, advocacy, collective power, and resistance from the margins This session takes place as part of More Than Neurodiversity on Weird Pride Day (4 March), responding to this year’s theme, “Weird Pride in a Hostile World.” It invites participants to explore the liminal spaces that many neurodivergent, disabled, and other multiply marginalised people know well, spaces between belonging and exclusion, diagnosis and identity, visibility and invisibility, surviving and thriving. Moving beyond neuro-affirmation, the session explores Weird Pride through posthuman and neuroqueer perspectives that understand our bodyminds as shaped through relationships with systems, environments, histories, and more-than-human worlds. Drawing on ideas of liminal spaces as sites of becoming and collective care, it frames wellbeing as ecosystemic and interdependent rather than individual. Centred on intersectionality and disability justice, the session reflects on the power of liminal and marginal spaces, and on how we can neuroqueer, disrupt, and rework neuronormative, ableist systems. The edges are not problems to be solved, but places where new forms of collective care, resistance, and belonging begin. Participants are invited to explore Weird Pride as a practice of interdependence, resistance, and re-world-making.
Lucas Aloyse Fritz Plainer is More: Plainer Language and the Fractal of Accessibility Neurodiversity social movements are supposed to be accessible to all neurodivergent folks. Nevertheless, conversations between activists or between researchers can be hard to follow. The scientific texts about neurodiversity and accessibility (of communication) can also be difficult to understand. They can be inaccessible. The inaccessibility of the research on accessibility creates what can be called : a fractal of accessibility. During this presentation, we will explore this fractal of accessibility. I will try to guide you through different layers of this fractal : - from the (inaccessible) phd thesis on neurodiversity social movements and accessibility - to the accessibility of the research on accessibility - to collaborative research-creation practice around plainer language and access as friction - to the accessibility of symposium where we talk about the accessibility of the texts about accessibility I will present how the work of other crip scholars (Kelsie Acton, Kelly Fritsch, Aimie Hamraie, Remi Yergeau...) helped me use plainer language and explore the fractal. Inversely, I will present how the use of a plainer language can change the way we access academia, and its modes of communication.
![Tasha Downs
Mad(dening) Neurodiversity?
This talk is a theoretical exploration of the intersections between Mad Studies and Critical Neurodiversity Studies. I will explain key definitions and revisit important discussions surrounding intercommunity Mad and neurodivergent resistance (Graby 2015; McWade et al. 2015; Frazer-Carroll 2023). Some topics of discussion will include Mad and Mad-positive neurodiversities, my response to Mad critiques of neurodiversity, and considerations of how Mad analytics such as maddening and mad reading can enrichen critical neurodiversity discourse. I also intend to discuss what I’m provisionally calling 'neuroableist sanism' and focus on how neurodiversity-lite enacts harm towards Mad folx. [This abstract is designed to give a flavour and the content of the talk might change somewhat.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ydzwvnlaoqw6ye7bfvdrqwti/bafkreigkvlfky7vrqsmimpj73z6aft5rsnfry5xcgrdtpiukaqjuuwlzua@jpeg)
Tasha Downs Mad(dening) Neurodiversity? This talk is a theoretical exploration of the intersections between Mad Studies and Critical Neurodiversity Studies. I will explain key definitions and revisit important discussions surrounding intercommunity Mad and neurodivergent resistance (Graby 2015; McWade et al. 2015; Frazer-Carroll 2023). Some topics of discussion will include Mad and Mad-positive neurodiversities, my response to Mad critiques of neurodiversity, and considerations of how Mad analytics such as maddening and mad reading can enrichen critical neurodiversity discourse. I also intend to discuss what I’m provisionally calling 'neuroableist sanism' and focus on how neurodiversity-lite enacts harm towards Mad folx. [This abstract is designed to give a flavour and the content of the talk might change somewhat.]
“Neurodiversity is More Than…”, a symposium organised by Abs S. Ashley and Ombre Tarragnat on 4 March 2026, 9am to 5pm GMT. With Tasha Downs, Helen Edgar @autisticrealms, David Gray-Hammond @emergentdivergence, Lloyd Meadhbh Houston, Michael Lundblad, and Berenice Vargas-García @bre.brbr. White internet search box with the search being “neurodiversity is more than”, and the results being: one thing, human, neurological, autism, madness?, a Northern paradigm?, … black and red wavy background on all pictures
“Neurodiversity is More Than…”, a symposium organised by Abs S. Ashley and Ombre Tarragnat on 4 March 2026, 9am to 5pm GMT. With Tasha Downs, Helen Edgar @autisticrealms, David Gray-Hammond @emergentdivergence, Lloyd Meadhbh Houston, Michael Lundblad, and Berenice Vargas-García @bre.brbr. White internet search box with the search being “neurodiversity is more than”, and the results being: one thing, human, neurological, autism, madness?, a Northern paradigm?, … black and red wavy background on all pictures
Overview This event brings together academics, independent researchers and lived-experience activists from across the globe to chart new possibilities with and beyond the neurodiversity concept. What forms of inclusion and exclusion does neurodiversity perform as a concept, as a field, and as a movement? How may lines of queer, trans, crip, decolonial, posthumanist, or Mad thinking shake up and overspill the conventional boundaries of neurodiversity? How may the perspective of the more-than contribute to a radical expansion of neurodiversity beyond autism, the human, and the Global North? How can the disciplinary perspectives of literature, anthropology, sociology, or philosophy be brought together with activist practice to shape the critical neurodiversity studies that is so urgently needed today? This online event is open to all members of the Neurodivergent Humanities Network (https://ndhumanities.com/), as well a s members of the public.
“Neurodiversity is More Than…”, a symposium organised by Abs S. Ashley and Ombre Tarragnat on 4 March 2026, 9am to 5pm GMT.
One of our network leads @danielpjones.bsky.social has recently published a paper! It approaches Tourette Syndrome treatment approaches through the lens of technoableism. Why not give it a read?
#TouretteSyndrome
#AcademicSky #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
Puisqu'on parle de racisme et de "cause animale" avec la mort de la fasciste Brigitte Bardot, c'est l'occasion de relire "Les animaux avec nous, nous avec les animaux" par @kaoutarharchi.bsky.social afin de replacer l'anti-spécisme politiquement.
Pitié les animalistes qui lui rendent hommage, y a 0 raison de se rallier derrière des gens d'extrême droite au nom de la cause animale, ca n'a AUCUN sens
Et en plus si vous êtes vegan, ce qui paraît la base pour militer, sachez qu'elle vous considérait comme extrême 🤡 ce qui veut
Five books that accompagner me in 2025, by alphabetical order: - Myriam Bahaffou, Éropolitique: Écoféminismes, désir et révolution - Emma Bigé and Clovis Maillet, Écotransféminismes - Christine Daigle, Posthumanist Vulnerability: An Affirmative Ethics - Stephanie Jenkins et al. (Eds), Disability and Animality: Crip Perspectives in Critical Animal Studies - Benedetta Piazzesi, Del governo degli animali: Allevamento e biopolitica
Cinq livres qui m’ont accompagné.e en 2025 (par ordre alphabétique) - Myriam Bahaffou, Éropolitique. Écoféminismes, désir et révolution - Emma Bigé et Clovis Maillet, Écotransféminismes - Christine Daigle, Posthumanist Vulnerability. An affirmative ethics - Stephanie Jenkins et al. (dir.), Disability and Animality. Crip perspectives in critical animal studies - Benedetta Piazzesi, Del governo degli animali. Allevamento e biopolitica
Five books that accompanied me in 2025 📚 / Cinq livres qui m’ont accompagné.e en 2025 📚
1/19 👋🏼J'ai le plaisir de vous partager cet article, sorti ds le n°5 de la revue en ligne Psy, Genre et Société. Il s'appelle "Travail émotionnel et subjectivité limite: ce qui en nous déborde", et je vais vous parler un peu du contexte qui l'entoure.
Déroule ma poule☕🧵
www.psygenresociete.org/545
Peut-on penser un antispécisme queerféministe avec Donna Haraway ?
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What forms of inclusion and exclusion does neurodiversity perform as a concept, field, and movement? How may lines of queer, trans, crip, decolonial, posthumanist, or Mad thinking shake up and overspill the conventional boundaries of neurodiversity?
Please join us for this important discussion! 🔥
🚨 NEURODIVERSITY IS MORE THAN... symposium 📅 4 March 2026, 9-5pm GMT, online. Free to attend, all welcome! Sign up below:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...
First slide of the presentation with Ombre’s name, CASY, date (17 nov. 2025) and the presentation’s title in English, French, and Spanish. Black background with blurry red dots.
This Monday, a conversation with CASY on autism and animality, subtitled in English!
Ce lundi, une conversation avec CASY sur l’autisme et l’animalité, sous-titrée en français !
¡Este lunes, una charla con CASY sobre autismo y animalidad, subtitulada en español!
Announcement of an event called “‘Why be ‘normal’? A posthuman queering of neurotypicality”, part of the Reading-Thinking-Doing club conversation at University of Sherbrooke in Canada. December 8th, 10.00 am - 12.00 pm. Invite at Magali.forte@usherbrooke.ca or by Facebook DMs @Magali Forte.
So much posthuman neuroqueering these days 🥳
Autonomous Press changed their shipping system and now my book Neuroqueer Heresies ships from my hometown, which means that now when people order their copies direct from the publisher I can autograph them.
#books #booksky #neurodiversity #neuroqueer
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The Neuronormative Paradigm, conceptualised by @dr-nicky.bsky.social names the systems that define & enforce what society considers normal and acceptable.
This exploration piece contrasts the neuronormative paradigm with the neurodiversity paradigm.
autisticrealms.com/the-neuronor...
Another blog post, this time exploring the unique ways in which neurodivergent people use their neurodivergence to support or oppose animal politics!
ombretarragnat.com/2025/11/10/f...
Right!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 It’s always nice to find more people who are into this!
Neuroqueer Theory and the Posthuman Symposium: Symbiogenesis in the Between, organised by Angelique Joy in Melbourne and online, March 2026. The call is open and I’m definitely considering sending something 🔥 angeliquejoy.com/xxi/
J'aurai le plaisir de participer à la JE AuFic 1 : Les représentations genrées de l’autisme en fiction le 20 novembre au Campus Condorcet ! Événement en présentiel (places limitées : journee-aufic.sciencesconf.org) et en direct sur Teams. J'espère vous y retrouver nombreux·ses !
"Pathology lite complements the now well-known concept of neurodiversity lite. It highlights equally risky ways that scientific discourse and practice can subtly reinforce harm against neurodivergent people"
Good thoughts from:
@ombretarragnat.bsky.social
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