Online: How to be a Brat and Influence People with Sarah Langston (ANPA)

This session talks about how to leverage digital activism to be a squeaky and very annoying wheel; the importance of making peace with not being liked; and why protest that leads to reform can look like someone who never shuts up online, even and especially when people want you to.

Sarah Langston is the president of ANPA (Australian Neurodivergent Parents Association), a fine artist, Disability Advocate, Law student and community organiser working on Gundungurra and Darug land in the Blue Mountains. She is proudly Autistic and ADHD/Neurodivergent, and a single mother of a Neurodivergent child in a NSW Public School.

Sarah explores justice and ethics in her work. She is chiefly interested in telling stories about the rights of women and children, and systemic discrimination against people with psychosocial disabilities. In her Advocacy work, she works with ND women and their children to ensure their rights to systems access and…