Anne Borden King

"I think the first advice that I give any activist is that if you have no hope, you have no movement. So you have to have hope…[and] say thank you to fellow activists for what they're doing, because 99% of what we do is for free."

Date

July 13, 2023

Runtime

01:06:34

Interviewed by

Casey E. Ovella Davis

Subjects

Description

Interview with Anne Borden King, a person whose dedicated interests include Autistic advocacy (more details below), rocks, shells, leaves, cats, traveling, hiking & swimming. Among her many projects, in 2017, Anne co-founded Canada's autistic-led advocacy group Autistics for Autistics, with Rishav Banerjee, Gaby, Talia Johnson and Bridget Liang. Anne lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is a dual Canadian/American citizen. Anne became aware of her Autistic identity at age 6.

Related Resources

Autistics for Autistics

Canada's autistic-led advocacy organization co-founded by Anne Borden King, Rishav Banerjee, Gaby, Talia Johnson and Bridget Liang. Some of their work includes:

Meeting with the United Nations Health Rapporteur in 2018 on autistic health and human rights in Canada. Read the report.
The Autistic Health Access Project (2019)
International Day of the Stim: A Celebration of Autistic Ways of Being (2018)
Neurodiversity Flag Raising at Toronto City Hall (2019)
Speaking before the Canadian Senate (2022)

Non-Compliant: A Neurodiversity Podcast

A podcast created and hosted by Anne Borden King about neurodiversity and human rights.

Canadian Coalition Against Seclusion and Restraint in Schools

A coalition of parents, teachers, support workers, therapists, autistic & intellectually disabled people working to BAN seclusion (isolation) rooms in all classrooms in Canada.