Following her midlife autism diagnosis, Joanne Limburg became eager to discover other women who had been misunderstood in their time. In this talk, she addresses autistic parenting, social isolation, feminism, the movement for disability rights and the punishments meted to those deemed to fall short of the norm.
Joanne Limburg was born in London in 1970 and studied Philosophy at Cambridge. She is the author of two poetry collections. Femenismo (Bloodaxe, 2000) was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize; Paraphernalia (Bloodaxe, 2007) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and son and is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Magdalen College.
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