Some of our autisticgals
Amanda Baggs
Sarah Nuttall
Sarah Nuttall
The late Amanda Baggs was a highly intelligent non-speaking autistic woman who used assistive technology and video to convey some of her lived experiences.
Her communication style was strongly embodied and she experienced and interacted with the world through her senses.
Check out her videos on YouTube, but particularly this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc
Sarah Nuttall
Sarah Nuttall
Sarah Nuttall
As well as an autistic autism advocate, Sarah is also a published poet. Her latest offerings can be found in OUGHT: The Journal of Autistic Culture:
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/ought/
Beth Ackers
Sarah Nuttall
Beth Ackers
Beth Ackers is the Course Leader of Early Modern History at Runshaw College. She went to UCLan to study a degree in History before completing a PGCE at Edge Hill. She is obsessed with reading and has read over 100 books this year so far! She lives in a cute little house with her two beautiful black cats, Cleo and Salem, and she loves cold autumn days when she is wrapped up inside with a hot chocolate and a book (of course). She is self diagnosed but says there is a freedom with that self diagnosis as a lot of things in her life that had previously made no sense to her have clicked into place.
Iqra Babar
Sophie McNicol
Beth Ackers
Iqra Babar is a 23-year-old Autistic ADHDer, Muslim & Pakistani digital artist and neurodivergent activist based in London.
Her work largely consists of exploring her South Asian culture and heritage through her original characters, culturally thematic art pieces and her webcomic, DARJIN. She also enjoys drawing art of her favourite comic book, anime or video game characters occasionally.
She is also a newly qualified primary school teacher.
Iqra is passionate about understanding disability and neurodivergency, exploring the intersection of identity within art, education policies and hyperfixating on fictional characters.
(She also trains in taekwondo so if you ever need a bodyguard, hit her up.)
Sarai Pahla
Sophie McNicol
Sophie McNicol
Sarai Pahla is a medical translator. She originally qualified as a medical doctor from the University of Cape Town in 2005 after a rewarding period of study. She embarked upon a career in medicine with fervour, but then sought new challenges in the field of IT consulting. her Youtube video on autistic women and relationships is a must watch.
Sophie McNicol
Sophie McNicol
Sophie McNicol
Sophie studied illustration at college and is now training to be a stained glass artist/conservator at Rainbow Glass in Prestwick, Scotland. She has worked there for just over two and a half years. Check out her Instagram to see some of her work:
https://www.instagram.com/sophiej_ne/
You can also read here about how Sophie got started in her dream career:
https://www.startscotland.scot/post/sophie-grabs-stained-glass-apprenticeship
Talisha Cree Johnson
Talisha Cree Johnson
Talisha Cree Johnson
A x2 Royal Television Society nominated TV Creative - Talisha Cree Johnson known professionally as Tee Cee, is a TV Producer & Presenter, Writer-Director and Author who made her writer-director debut on her short film 'Too Autistic for Black' commissioned by Warner Bros. Discovery, streaming on discovery+ for Black History Month 2022. To date Tee Cee has won ten TV / digital commissions for her ideas and has worked in unscripted development across a plethora of award-winning broadcasters and independent production companies including Atomized Studios, Full Fat TV, Tuesday's Child TV, BBC Studios - Digital Originals and BBC Three where she won x4 series / pilot commissions for both linear and digital TV shows, formats and content including winning BBC Three Birmingham's first in-house commission 'My Mate's A Bad Date' (Broadcasts International Hot Picks Formats 2020). Tee Cee won her first three commissions for BBC Three within 9 months of her first contract at the age of 25!
https://www.teeceeofficial.com/
Faye Eleanor Woods
Talisha Cree Johnson
Talisha Cree Johnson
Faye is an incredible artist who has already had her first solo exhibition at 25!
She has also exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy.
Faye Eleanor Woods is a Scottish artist currently working out of the Calderdale Valley in West Yorkshire. Graduating from Gray’s School of Art in 2021, Woods' current work acts as a love letter to the much loved establishment - the British pub. To Woods the pub represents a state of emotional freedom where the act of dancing, singing and drunken debauchery transcends time itself. The pub is a representation of the inner psyche, the room within rooms that is teetering on the edge of disaster and joy.
Faye and her work can be found at https://www.instagram.com/faye_eleanor_woods/
Mina Moriarty
Talisha Cree Johnson
Mina Moriarty
Mina is a poet and history writer who has appeared on television. If you like quirky historical facts, follow her on Instagram at
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Please note that 'autistic woman' includes anyone who identifies as autistic and also identifies as a woman.