Our neuroqueer summit is dedicated to providing a platform for critical conversations around the concept of coming out. We aim to create a supportive space for sharing diverse experiences and perspectives within the neuroqueer community. This is the first of its kind summit, and we are excited to welcome you to this pioneering event.
The summit takes place 14-21st September 2026
“Embracing my neuroqueerness has been a process of becoming more and more myself. Living my joy, my passions, my preferences and my limits. Finding ways of working, relating and moving in the world that work best for my mind and body.”Sophia Graham
- You want to hear how different people have experienced coming out in different ways
- You're interested in neuroqueer identities
- You want to connect with other neuroqueers
- It sparks your interest
Dr. Alex Iantaffi is a disabled, neuroqueer, late-diagnosed AuDHDer who also lives with C-PTSD, hEDS, MCAS & dysautonomia. They are an author, therapist, speaker, clinical supervisor, and podcaster who continues to organise within a number of communities, within their capacity. You can find out more about Alex’s work at alexiantaffi.com.
Dr. Sophia Graham is a disabled, neuroqueer coach who teaches folks how to have more choice in their relationships with their emotions and their closest people. She runs loveuncommon.com with some of her favourite people and loves to facilitate and participate in mutual aid groups and practices. Her blog is a love letter to her younger self, and she hopes you might find something there that helps you too.
Nick Walker
Coming Further Out: A Neuroqueer Approach
Coming out is among other things a reshaping of one’s social identity, in which the identity thrust upon one by society is exchanged for self-identification based in self-knowledge. But what happens when no identity category proves sufficiently liberating, and what solutions can be found in Neuroqueer Theory?
Erica Riddick
Does coming out set you free or box you in?
This conversation explores the ways in which labels and identities can create opportunities for connection at the same time as they can feel constraining and constricting.
Doug Paulley
Coming out as a political awakening
Doug Paulley is a prominent UK-based disability rights campaigner known for taking legal action against corporations, particularly in transport, to challenge accessibility barriers. Doug is a passionate advocate for justice and disability rights, and a cat lover. This conversation explores the complexity of living with visible and invisible disability, living in a residential home and building community with other neurodivergent folks enforcing discrimination law in the UK.
Bob Manickam
Coming out and coming into yourself
This conversation explores the ways that coming out is an act of self-acceptance. It touches on punk culture, DIY and the complexities of living with multiple marginalised identities.
Meg John Barker
Plural comings out and coming out as plural
This conversation will affirm and explore the related experiences of plural comings out (coming out multiple times over the course of a lifetime) and of coming out as plural (being
several selves, or parts, or otherwise having a lived experience of multiplicity). It will normalise having a plurality of things we might come out about, ways of understanding/framing these things, and parts/selves for whom they are relevant/accurate. It will suggest that coming out itself is an ongoing process which we may do or not do in a plurality of different ways with ourselves and others, across relationships and situations.
Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti
Coming out over a lifetime
Gloria talks about her journey through a high-demand religious upbringing, traumatic brain injury and her late diagnosis with Autism. She shares the joys and challenges of the many coming out she has had over her lifetime.
Kaleb E. Goldschmitt
Neuroqueerness in academia
Kaleb talks about their experience of coming out as trans and autistic within higher education.
- 9 interviews about neuroqueerness and coming out.
- Three round table conversations about neuroqueering non-monogamy, masking, parenting and BDSM.
- Access to a signal group for the week of the summit.
- You'll contribute to making the summit sustainable and helping us create another one next year!