{"id":11703,"date":"2026-04-30T11:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=11703"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:18:49","slug":"off-the-spectrum-the-lost-girls-of-autism","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/off-the-spectrum-the-lost-girls-of-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Spectrum: The Lost Girls of Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Gina Rippon - Off the Spectrum: The Lost Girls of Autism\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ze4YWuKmwvc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For decades, autism research has focused overwhelmingly on boys and men, and some autism researchers even see autism itself as \u201cmasculine.\u201d Drawing on her own decades of research with autistic women and girls, Neuroscientist Gina Rippon upends this view. Beyond highlighting autism\u2019s manifestations in women and girls, Rippon\u2019s research illuminates the entangled matter of gender\/sex, autism, and neuroscience, and exposes the devastating effects of systemic gender bias in autism research and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An outspoken critic of the (mis)use of neuroscience research to shore up sexism (a trend she calls \u201cneurotrash\u201d), Professor Rippon will be in conversation with Barnard Professor and Director of BCRW, sociomedical scientist Rebecca Jordan-Young, to discuss her new book <em>The Lost Girls of Autism<\/em> (UK) \/ <em>Off the Spectrum<\/em> (US), which won the 2025 Popular Science Award from the British Psychological Society. This event is part of BCRW\u2019s annual Roslyn Silver \u201827 Science Lecture series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, autism research has focused overwhelmingly on boys and men, and some autism researchers even see autism itself as \u201cmasculine.\u201d Drawing on her own decades of research with autistic women and girls, Neuroscientist Gina Rippon upends this view. Beyond highlighting autism\u2019s manifestations in women and girls, Rippon\u2019s research illuminates the entangled matter of gender\/sex, autism, and neuroscience, and exposes the devastating effects of systemic gender bias in autism research and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11705,"template":"","tags":[6,20],"class_list":["post-11703","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-gender","tag-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11709,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/11703\/revisions\/11709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}