Event 

Jorik Mol - Breaking the Boundaries

Wednesday 4 June, 2025
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Commons CM221

Newton Park BA2 9BN

About this event

Bath Spa+ are proud to invite you to join us for a LGBTQIA+ History Month event. 

Jorik Mol (he/him/they) will be joining us to talk about his first book, Breaking the Boundaries. A guide to being a lived-experience mentor, Breaking the Boundaries challenges the norms about autistic communities, emphasising the need to normalise radical empathy, values-driven motivation and self-advocacy and is due to be published soon.

Jorik will be telling some of his favourite stories from the book, answering some questions and lifting queer spirits in exterminationist times. Because shared joy in the face of oppression is an act of resistance. Let's resist.

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.

Alongside being a writer, an activist, an educator and community organiser he also 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: jorikmol.com

Breaking the Boundaries is published by Lived Places Publishing Ltd, based in New York, USA.

This event is open to staff and students.

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