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Transcript and Video of Julia Bascom’s Keynote at Drexel University
January 11, 2021 | Noor Pervez
Nothing About Us Without Us: Autistic People Shaping Policy About Our Lives
Hi, thank you so much for having me, and thank you Michael for that incredibly powerful introduction. Like Michael said, my name is Julia Bascom, and I’m the Executive Director for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. We’re a national disability rights organization run by and for autistic adults and people with other developmental disabilities. I want to take a moment to give you all some background on my organization before we get started, because we’re different from most other autism organizations in a few key ways. First, we’re a self-advocacy organization, and that means two things. One, it means we are run by and for autistic people. That means me, my staff, my board, are all autistic people, often with additional disabilities as well. Two, like I mentioned, “self-advocacy” means that we’re a disability rights organization. We take a civil rights framework to disability policy issues. We don’t think about disability policy [...]