Amanda Tink

Jan 12, 2025 | tolerance.ca | Amanda Tink

By Amanda Tink, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of South Australia “In the United States, we’re taught that nakedness is a very intimate and private thing. Yet, I have to show people my body every day to receive the assistance I need,” writes Ashley Volion, a wheelchair-using disability rights activist, in Disability Intimacy. “I have to be vulnerable in ways that other people wouldn’t even dream of.

Jan 12, 2025 | theconversation.com | Amanda Tink

“In the United States, we’re taught that nakedness is a very intimate and private thing. Yet, I have to show people my body every day to receive the assistance I need,” writes Ashley Volion, a wheelchair-using disability rights activist, in Disability Intimacy. “I have to be vulnerable in ways that other people wouldn’t even dream of.

Sep 2, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Amanda Tink

By Amanda Tink, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of South Australia Steve Silberman, much loved for his transfomative, acclaimed autism book Neurotribes, as well as his writing on the Grateful Dead, has died, aged 66. Autistic writer Amanda Tink pays tribute. Read complete article© The Conversation -

Sep 2, 2024 | theconversation.com | Amanda Tink

Steve Silberman, author of NeuroTribes, a groundbreaking history of autism that fundamentally changed how society understood autistic people, has died, aged 66. While many people write about a community from the vantage point of an outsider, few can be credited with making the world a better place for that community. Silberman, whose death has left many of us truly devastated, was one of those few.

Aug 21, 2024 | theconversation.com | Jo Case |Aidan Coleman |Alexander Cothren |Alexander Howard |Ali Mohammad Alizadeh |Amanda Tink | +44 more

Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers. But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey. That’s where we come in.