Shannan Palma

Autistic Self-Reliance Support Network
The Autistic Self-Reliance Support Network empowers autistic adults and supports their loved ones through providing education, assistance, social opportunities, and advocacy.​
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Higher Ed Careers Beyond the Professoriate
Higher Education Careers Beyond the Professoriate is one of the first collections to explore PhD career versatility within higher education. Unifying the essays is the idea that career diversity is intertwined with other diversity discourse, yielding a broad-based but critical examination of careers in higher education administration. Coming March 15, 2024.
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Everything You Were Taught About Sex Was Wrong
Part One: Bodies Sex and Gender
Dr. Shannan Palma provides a plain language overview of the diversity of bodies and analyzes assumptions about sex and gender that don’t account for that diversity. She explains how all of these wrong assumptions impact how people (autistic people, in particular) understand and experience their sexuality.
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“[The Once Upon a Patriarchy] podcast is brainy and funny in all the best ways! No matter if you came here for the fairytales, the feminism, or the cool hosts and stellar guests - you will stay for the rest. The research is fascinating, the commentary is like listening to your smartest, funniest friends. Give it a listen!”
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Sexism, Racism, and Our Complicated Relationship with Disney

PODCAST APPEARANCE – Listen to Shannan and Wanda on UnSilence Her

April 22, 2021 No Comments

I’m so excited to share the fabulous conversation Wanda Swan and I had with Chelsea Jennings of the UnSilence Her podcast about sexism, racism, and our complicated relationship with Disney. Chelsea moderated our panel at the Denton Black Film Festival, and we all had so much fun that we just needed to keep talking. Listen

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VIDEO – Once Upon a Podcast: Oral Storytelling as Resistance

April 22, 2021 No Comments

Presentation filmed on November 6, 2020 as part of Critical Border Crossings: Stories, Texts and Their Feminist Travels, a symposium sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies at Eastern Michigan University. Description: Through the “Once Upon A Patriarchy” podcast, myth and media studies scholar Dr. Shannan Palma and survivor advocate Wanda Swan explore the messaging in

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UPCOMING – Once Upon a Podcast: Oral Storytelling as Resistance

October 29, 2020 No Comments

On Friday, November 6, 2020, Wanda Swan and I will be co-presenting “Once Upon a Podcast: Oral Storytelling as Resistance” as a part of Critical Border Crossings: Stories, Texts and Their Feminist Travels, a virtual symposium hosted by the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Eastern Michigan University. We’ll be talking about our work producing

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