A 2024 study into the benefits of Body Doubling by Tessa Eagle, Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony and Kathryn E. Ringland.

“Body doubling has emerged as a community-driven phenomenon primarily employed by neurodivergent individuals. In this work, we survey 220 people to investigate how, when, and why they engage in body doubling and their own definitions for it.”

A 2023 article by Devon Price unpacking body doubling, “executive dysfunction,” and the pathology model of ADHD.

“Many of the challenges of having ADHD could easily be addressed with interventions that are social rather than medical — but such an approach is nearly impossible for our current mental healthcare system to make sense of, or profit from. And so, for now, ADHDers and those of us who love them are stuck inventing our own solutions, and providing one another with the best support that we can.”

“Our needs and strengths interlocked perfectly, as is so often the case in ADHer-Autistic friendships. When psychology and psychiatry had little to offer us but stigma and self-blame, we took care of one another. We each needed other people. And that was the exact opposite of being disordered.”

Written by Sins Invalid, these principles guide us towards collective access and liberation, through intersectional, anti-capitalist, cross-disability, sustainable interdependence.

“Sins Invalid recognizes that we will be liberated as whole beings—as disabled, as queer, as Black, as Brown, as trans/nonbinary, as exactly who and how we are. We know we are far greater whole than divided. We recognize that our allies emerge from many communities and that demographic identity alone does not determine one’s commitment to liberation.”

This doctoral research project by our member Aby Watson, critically interrogates solo choreography and performance through a lens of the neurodiversity paradigm, and a lived experience of neurodivergence, specifically dyspraxia; a neurotype which affects memory, coordination, cognitive processing, and the execution of movements. Yet, through the process of a paradigm shift, this study widens its focus to consider neurodivergence more broadly. Deliberations of choreography itself also become expanded, to explore increasingly interdisciplinary modes of dance alongside alternate social relations and modes of spectatorship within the performance space.