Who has a seat at the table? Thinking beyond representation and advocacy
with Reyma McCoy Hyten
5/17/23
In this episode, Reyma McCoy Hyten helps us explore the root causes of oppression for Autistic people, and sit with the discomfort of examining our role in it. Reyma McCoy Hyten is Autistic and was the first Black woman to ever serve as the US Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner for the Administration on Disabilities. After two decades as a helping professional, Reyma now focuses her work on the root cause of systemic oppression, and, as she puts it, “how systems create marginalization in the first place.”
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Show Notes
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Learn more from and about Reyma’s work:
- On her website, Reyma.org, which has more information about Reyma, her work, and her latest projects
- On Facebook
- Select advocacy on intersectional inclusion
- More about Reyma’s roles:
Deepen your understanding of intersectional issues
- A few related Two Sides of the Spectrum episodes:
- Culturally Responsive Therapy: A Moral Imperative with AC Goldberg (Ep 55)
- Lessons from a Black Autistic Behavioral Therapist with Joy F. Johnson (Ep 6)
- Dismantling Racism & Ableism with Lydia X. Z. Brown (Ep 3) & related blog post
- Applying a Disability Justice Lens to Therapy with Chelsea Wallaert (Ep 48)
- Research that Centers Autistic Well-Being as Defined by Autistics with Dr. T.C. Waisman (Ep 65), who was also a part of this panel: An Expert Discussion on Structural Racism in Autism Research & Practice
- Culturally Responsive Therapy for Native Autistic Kids with Jules Edwards (Ep 59)
- Additional resources:
- “They Don’t Know, Don’t Show, or Don’t Care”: Autism’s White Privilege Problem by (self-advocate) Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu (she/they) (autism-specific resource)
- Racial, Ethnic, and Sociodemographic Disparities in Diagnosis of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (autism-specific resource)
- Black And Latino Children Are Often Overlooked When It Comes To Autism (autism-specific resource, with additional links)
- Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization (General resource)
- The Lens of Systemic Oppression (General resource)
