Workshop: Gender, Autism, and Affective and Epistemic Injustice

How do stereotypes, social norms, medical knowledge and the construction of social, technological, and research environments impact people’s affective experiences, sense of self, and authenticity? When are these impacts unjust?

The Durham Faculty of Arts and Humanities funded Gender, Affective Injustice and Autism (GAIA) project has focused specifically on autistic women and their experiences of late diagnoses. It has gathered data about autistic women’s experiences of late diagnoses, exploring whether their experiences can be conceptualised as affective injustices, i.e. injustices people experience in their capacity to feel and have emotions, epistemic injustices, i.e. injustices experienced as a knower, or both.

Please see the full agenda, abstracts, and speaker biographies on the Eventbrite page.

This project workshop explores the key themes of GAIA: gender, autism, affective injustice and epistemic injustice. Speakers cover a broad range of topics related to these key themes, including:

1. The lived experience of masking among women, explored through the lens of epistemic injustice and standpoint theory

1. The relationship between AI, autism and authenticity,

1. How epistemic injustice may arise via methods used to understand autistic experience, particularly those of trans and gender diverse adults,

1. Impression management in socially anxious people, in relation to gender, intersubjectivity, agency and sense of authentic self.

The workshop aims to develop interdisciplinary conversations around these important issues.

This hybrid event is free to attend. If you have any dietary/accessibility requirements, please get in touch with imh.events@durham.ac.uk/

The Zoom link will be circulated closer to the event.

This event is one of a series of activities brought to you by the new Research Theme on Gender, Affective Injustice and Health led by Roslyn Malcolm (Anthropology) and Katherine Puddifoot (Philosophy) within the Institute for Medical Humanities.