Parenting at the Intersections: Raising Neurodivergent Children of Color

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What if parenting were an act of social justice
In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Raghav situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism.
These intersections engender isolation and loneliness. Using the voices of parents on the front lines and other experts, Parenting at the Intersections offer an invitation to parents to slow down and reflect on their own parenting journeys.
When parents can be given space to listen to their own voices, to connect with their children, and find community with others, they can find the most radical ways to disrupt systems of oppression.

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"Parenting at the Intersections is a book about belonging. Belonging in the face of disconnection, migration trauma, colonial wounding, and neurodivergence. Belonging in ways that are not always comfortable for caregivers of all kinds to engage in and around. Jaya and Priya invite the reader of this book to re-remember the beauty of difference and the necessity of how to foster and curate our childrens' differences. They speak of parenting our neurodivergent children of color as an act of liberation from systems of oppression--this in itself addresses the root and tends to the leaves of our youth. This book is a love letter and a form of disruption--this is my favorite kind of rebellion: one rooted in decolonial love." --Jennifer Mullan, PsyD, author of Decolonizing Therapy
"Parenting at the Intersections is what can happen when the primary relationship of parents and children is witnessed with complexity, care, and dignity. . . In these pages we are welcomed into a dynamism of cultural humility and lived authority. Priya and Jaya built for us a space of inquiry where conscious community can show up for every kind of family, where every family can be supported to hold every child in the way each child needs to be held--and where collectives can choose resilient grace, reliable vitality, and committed connection--over simple perfectionism. As they examine the ways in which ableism, ageism, racism, economic injustice, and other layers of oppression press in to interfere with authentic relationship, they guide us to bold efficacy in countering these forces in the most immediate zones of our lives. This is a work of courageous creativity and joy." --Dr. Leticia Nieto, author of Beyond Empowerment, Beyond Inclusion

Author Bio

Jaya Ramesh, MA LMHC, is a psychotherapist in private practice in the greater Seattle area, specializing in working with BIPOC neurodivergent individuals and couples. She also runs a DEI consultancy coaching leaders at organizations on creating anti-racist culture in the workplace. Priya Raghav, LICSW, RPT-S is a neurodivergent person, a proud parent, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor and a Certified Hand-in-Hand Parenting Instructor. She is the founder of Play It Out! PLLC and Parent Village LLC based in Kirkland, Washington, collectively offering emotional healing and support to young children and their caregivers.