About Autisticulture Magazine
The Project
Autisticulture is an autistic-led print magazine reclaiming representation and celebrating autistic culture. Born out of frustration with limited autistic representation in the media, it challenges stereotypes and creates space for autistic people - who make up 1% of the global population - to share their culture, interests, and everyday experiences on their own terms.
Autistic representation is too often made by and for non-autistic people. It exploits our stories for humour, inspiration, or entertainment, reducing our lives to flat, stereotyped portrayals that lack depth and reinforce stigma and misunderstanding.
Autisticulture exists to reclaim representation and change that: it is a space for autistic joy, for special interests, and for culture in all its forms - from favourite characters to music, fashion, food, and everyday life.
The Platform
Autisticulture is a platform that amplifies the voices and experiences of the autistic community. We strive to challenge stereotypes, broaden narratives, and empower autistic individuals in all their diversity and complexity.
Autisticulture celebrates autistic culture and reclaims autistic representation, using popular culture as springboards to share experiences.
We're primarily a print magazine (produced on crip time), but we also share blog posts online (see "Blog") and collect headcanons on our Instagram page (see "Headcanon Gallery").
I encourage anyone autistic (whether formally or self diagnosed) to get involved, so that your views and experiences can be represented.
The Content
Autisticulture is a space for autistic joy, for sharing special interests, and for discussing our favourite characters and why we see them as autistic-coded, even if the creators haven't explicitly labelled them as such.
We don't just look at autistic headcanons - though these are great start-points for discussion to help ease into conversations, and they form the foundations for our content.
Anything related to autism and autistic experiences and culture as told by autistic people is welcome on Autisticulture -
whether that's an album review, a style opinion, a political take, an interview, or writing about your pebble collection and love of the sea. And if we haven't covered it yet, be the first to do so!