![[97] S8 E5: Finding logic in chaos, burnout, and reconnecting with our internal compass and autistic joy](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Martine-van-Bijlert-1-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 29 Apr, 2023 | Podcast episodes, Season 8
Martine van Bijlert is a writer and researcher from the Netherlands. Now 52, she grew up in Iran and worked in places like Kabul, Grozny and Tehran as an aid worker, diplomat and researcher. She now divides her time between her own creative projects and her work for...
![[96] S8 E4: Safety, community and representation for Black and minority ethnic / global majority autistic people](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Naomi-Clarke-wide-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 22 Apr, 2023 | Podcast episodes, Season 8
Naomi Clarke is a freelance writer, community mentor, fundraiser and Human Design reader. She self diagnosed as autistic around two years ago, but due to inequality in the medical system has so far not been able to get a formal diagnosis. She describes herself as an...
![[90] S7, Ep10: Burnouts, breakdowns and anxiety: a journey towards more supportive and sustainable work](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dea-Neile-Hopton-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 26 Nov, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
Déa Neile-Hopton is a basket maker and artist. She is of mixed Jamaican and English heritage and grew up in the 1970s and 80s in York, England. Now 47, she lives in Whitland in Wales, with her partner and three neurodivergent children. She is self diagnosed autistic...
![[89] S7, Ep9: ‘Outsider’ identities: the intertwining of gender, sexuality and autism](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kelly-McCartney-epsiode-art-V2-1080x675.jpg)
by Lynne Kerr | 19 Nov, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
Kelly McCartney is a music journalist from Rhode Island, USA. She is 52 and self-diagnosed as autistic in April of 2022. She has turned a life-long special interest in music into an incredibly varied, 30-year career in almost every area of the music industry,...
![[82] S7, Ep2: God as a special interest: deconstructing religious identity as a newly identified autistic](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/D-L-Mayfield-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 1 Oct, 2022 | Podcast episodes, Season 7
D.L. Mayfield is a freelance writer from Portland, USA. She has written for Christian publications in the US for over 10 years, and is the author of several books, the latest of which, Unruly Saint, explores the life and work of the late American journalist, social...
