Dyi Dieuwertje Huijg

University of Roehampton | RU · Department of Social Sciences

"This chapter claims that a critical neurodiversity perspective is required to re-evaluate the relationship between agency and neurodiversity, in order to challenge the (re)production of neuronormative theorisations of agency – in particular by challenging the ‘normal mental ability’ claim in agency theories and rejecting the idea that agency would...

This thesis concerns a conceptual exploration of intersectional agency, and particularly the interplay of social categories and power, mobilised by racially privileged feminist activists from São Paulo, Brazil. Theoretically, my work is grounded in, first, intersectional thought, through which an understanding is employed of intersectionality as an...

In this article I question the wholeness of the agency of white, feminist activists. Drawing on intersectional theory, I problematise the multiplicative character of their location in order to be able to understand how intersectional agency operates. This location reveals three layers of intersectionality; the junction of axes of social significati...

[Original in Portuguese] In this article, I explore the complexity of racial identity formation of (non)white, young, female activists in São Paulo. Taking into account the interaction of the individual with the social world, one must distinguish between appropriated and attributed racial identities, as well as individual and collective identities....

TITLE IN ENGLISH: "White feminists ... take off the mask? The expression of female whiteness in intra-gender race relations" ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: The thesis presented here attempts to understand the expression of whiteness in the (white) feminist movement in Brazil. It is based on the text, “O verso e reverso da construção da cidadania feminina, b...

This academic blog post (as part of a flipped webinar) explores how ADHD research is grounded in majority white research populations or ignores race altogether; arguably, it produces white knowledge about (adult) ADHD. UK Government data suggests raced and gendered ADHD disparities, but argues that these do not exist. Critical race and feminist que...

Find the original academic blog post here: https://postpandemicuniversity.net/2020/09/10/relaxed-pedagogy-relaxing-teaching-and-learning-in-the-university/

The NHS, medical tourism and benefit abuse played a central role in the referendum vote. Nonetheless, the (anticipated) impact of the UK’s exit on the experience of disability, health and care are marginalised in analyses of and policies on Brexit. I pull these from the margins to explore their impact at the centre of the Brexit Project. Doing so,...

The NHS, medical tourism and benefit abuse played a central role in the referendum vote. Nonetheless, the (anticipated) impact of the UK's exit on the experience of disability, health and care are marginalised in analyses of and policies on Brexit. Taking my own intersectional perspective as a (privileged) disabled EU citizen as a point of departur...