This session will explore the interconnectedness of structural inequality, oppression, class, race and gendered marginalisation of neurodivergent individuals and how this plays out in creative literature.
Kavita will reflect on the impact of ADHD in reading and writing – the practical difficulties as well as the gifts and opportunities. She will ask if ADHD and literature have been romanticised and festishised through the figure of the writer, how this plays out in different cultural contexts, as well as across class and gender.
Kavita will also look at the increasing difficulties for the neurodivergent and marginalised creative writer, posed by capitalism and the professionalisation of writing. She will explore how the world might change in order to accommodate and support the ADHD writer on the margins.
