Monday 3rd February 2025: Gig List! What? Yes!

Hi everyone!

Sorry I’m not posting as much as you might expect. I’m still plugging away at FFaS here. I’m getting to the end, though – I’ve just sent off a chapter to my editor anyway :-).

Wednesday 5th February 2025

I will be speaking at a closed online event, run by NAS Enfield, an autistic community in London.

Friday 7th February 2025

I’ve been invited back to Autscape! I will be speaking about Breaking the Barriers, reading pieces from the book that focus on the particular joys of being neuroqueer and finding one’s community, gender joy, the joy of art, the joy of hyperfocus and the joy of fighting the good fight.

Please book for the entire event, it’s online and only £20 for all three days. I’m in between two incredible women and friends: Joanna Ławicka and Kate Fox. And, yes, I’ve called my talk after a pop girlie song. Thank you Daria. Please book here: Autscape: 2025 Schedule (7-9 Feb).

Wednesday 26th February 2025

I’ve been asked to speak for Bath Spa University’s LGBTQIA+ History Month! This is an amazing opportunity. Again, pop girlie title. LGBTQIA+ History Month 2025 – Bath Spa University is the link and Jorik Mol – Breaking the Boundaries at Locksbrook Campus – LC.LR.207 event tickets from TicketSource is the ticketing website! Let’s sell out (can you sell out when it’s free to attend?)!

And I heard that there’s a special place – Breaking the Boundaries in Neuroqueer LGBTQ-activism

Since “falling arse-backwards” into his career as an activist, Jorik has found community in the most unexpected places. Through his job as an actually autistic mentor for autistic university students and running the Autistic Wellbeing Group (aka AutWell) at Bath Spa University, he landed himself is a position as community elder. Not surprising since, according to some metrics, autistic life expectancy can be as low as 38. Jorik will turn 38 this year. No, he doesn’t look it.

This year, Jorik’s first book, Breaking the Boundaries will be published. A guide to being a lived-experience mentor, Breaking the Barriers challenges the norms about autistic communities, emphasising the need to normalise radical empathy, values-driven motivation and self-advocacy. In celebration of LGBTQ-history month, Jorik will be telling some his favourite stories from the book, answer some questions and lift queer spirits in exterminationist times. Because shared joy in the face of oppression is an act of resistance. Let’s resist.

Jorik Mol (he/him/they) is an activist, writer, educator and community organiser. He runs the QND Writers’ Network for neuroqueer writers, runs workshops, panels and speaks at conferences. Jorik also writes autistic fiction and neurodivergent non-fiction, keeps a regular blog, is an activist for disabled and LGBTQIA+ liberation and lives with his equally autistic husband-to-be, several dozen plushies and several hundred books in Bath, UK. Find him online at: https://www.jorikmol.com 

Jorik’s second book Feeling Fast and Slow, on autistic love, alexithymia and the problematic history of empathy to be published by Hachette/Jessica Kingsley in Q3 2025.

Breaking the Boundaries is published by Lived Places Publishing Ltd. They’re based in New York City, so Jorik looks forward to his first book ban under the Trump administration. 

Saturday 22nd March 2025

I’ve been invited to speak about Breaking the Barriers for the University of Glasgow’s Neurodiversity society, answering questions from the audience and appearing on a panel with other neurodivergent specialists. It’ll be face-to-face, too. Link when it’s ready!

Saturday 29th March 2025

Lastly, for now, I will be part of Beyond the Spectrum‘s conference on the 29th March. This time, I will be hosting a panel discussion, then speaking about Teeming. Again, link when it’s ready.

Okay, love you very much! Speak soon!