TPP 268: Global Advocate Morénike Giwa Onaiwu on Intersectional Justice in the Neurodivergent Community
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of Tilt Parenting and who is the guest on this episode?
The more intersectional identities that you have that are marginalized, so the more, like if you look at race, gender, and disability, the more that they intersect, the more likely it is that there's going to be suboptimal outcomes. You're going to look at the likelihood that that person is going to have the same type of educational attainment as someone who isn't that race or isn't that gender or both is different. The likelihood that they're going to be a homeowner or they're going to not be in the criminal justice system or all of the different markers, social determinants tend to be at higher risk.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber. On this week's episode, I am talking with powerhouse Marenike Gewa Anaewoo. Meredike is a global advocate, educator, disabled person of color, non-binary woman, and parent of children on the autism spectrum in a neurodiverse, multicultural, twice-exceptional, zero-different family. She's a prolific writer and social activist whose work focuses on intersectional justice, meaningful community involvement, human rights, and inclusion. Marenike has presented at the White House, the UN, and numerous conferences, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, Psychology Today, Atlantic, The Today Show, and much more.
Marenike was the first Black woman to chair the NIH-funded Global Community Advisory Board for HIV Clinical Research and the first Black Executive Board of Directors member of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network and Autistic Women and Non-Binary Network. I could go on and on listing credentials because Marenike's work is so impressive and so extensive. For this conversation, we focused on what it was like for Marenike to get her autism diagnosis as an adult, the valuable knowledge that parents can receive from other autistic adults, the impact of getting diagnosed late for black and brown kids, and how intersectionality can help us understand the consequences of an autistic diagnosis in marginalized communities.
Such a rich conversation. I hope you enjoy it. And a quick reminder that with this season of the podcast, I've also just launched Playback Fridays, whereby every Friday I'll be re-releasing a powerful episode from my library. Tune in for episodes with people like the Out of Sync Child author, Carol Kronowitz, author of The Explosive Child, Dr. Ross Green, NeuroTribes author, Steve Silberman, my original Asher specials, and episodes on things like navigating tricky dynamics with family who don't get it, transitioning to homeschool, and so much more. If you're already subscribed to this podcast, you don't have to do anything. Just keep an eye out for new episodes on Fridays showing up in your podcast feed.
Lastly, I want to give a quick shout out to new supporter of the podcast, Sarah Wiener. Thank you so much for joining my Patreon community and helping me cover the cost of producing this show. If you get a lot out of this podcast and want to join Sarah in supporting it, you can sign up with Patreon to contribute as little as $2 a month. To learn more, visit patreon.com slash tilt parenting. Thanks so much. And now here is my conversation with Marenike. Hello, Morena Kay. Welcome to the podcast.
Thanks. I'm glad to be here. Oh,
my goodness. There's so much that we could talk about today, and I'm just really excited to have a rich conversation with you. And I'm assuming that there are going to be listeners who are unfamiliar with who you are in the world and the work that you do. So I was wondering if you could start by... Telling us a little bit about your own personal story and how it kind of led you to be doing the work that you do today.
Sure. Well, first, hi, everyone. Thanks for being here. I really appreciate your time and your interest. So my name is Marenike, and I am involved in a lot of disability justice advocacy and social justice work as a person who's neurodivergent and a parent of disabled and neurodivergent children.
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