Living as a trans person in Australia right now is a bit like being in the eye of a storm. It’s like that most of the time. …

Today, the autistic community lost an elder. An elder that many of our community didn’t really know existed. An elder who achieved the greatness that autistics are never meant to aspire to according to many, nevertheless this autistic elder did indeed achieve greatness. Of course, if we were to take…

First published as ‘Out and Visible — Roe’s Story’ @ nicoleconner.com.au I’ll be honest, I am just managing to hold on at the moment. ‘Hold on to what?’ you may ask. Well, hold on to me I guess. Hold on to a sense of me having the same humanity as…

If you’re in Australia and you have managed to not realise that there is a controversy around Israel Folau well I think you must be doing a bang up job of keeping your self clear of just about every single media channel there is. It’s a bit all-encompassing at the…

I really wish that the peak autism groups, the groups that exist to represent advocate and be service providers could please catch up. It’s not hard to discover and understand that autistic people are a very diverse group. …

What! The TERF’s are correct. Did I really say that? Well yes. I did. What could they possibly be right about I hear you say? Well, it’s a bit complicated and possibly a little bit unpopular but they are correct about one thing. That I as a trans woman didn’t…

If you’ve had the joy of spending time with us autistic folk you would probably realise that we love our phones but we don’t love talking on them so much. We often laugh about that time the phone rang and I just stared at it. Yes, we do really love…

Q is for queer. What’s that got to do with autism and being autistic you may wonder. Well as it turns out a significant amount. Large portions of the autistic community identify on the LGBTIQA+ umbrella. There are quite a lot of us that are autistic and queer. Recent studies…