Reluctantly Female
Reluctantly Female
Inspiring woman Gender stereotypes Testimony Neurodiversity
Elisabeth Wiklander
Elisabeth Wiklander is a prize-winning cellist, working at the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Elisabeth is autistic and a Neurodiversity Advocate.
Autistic culture doesn’t always conform to the socially expected. This is also true when it comes to gender identity.
Elisabeth talks about her challenges as an autistic woman and her fight for recognition in a system formed by a male stereotype. She will also discuss how autism has influenced a blind spot for societal construct around gender and how she struggled with being born female until an alternative cultural context changed her perspective.
About Elisabeth Wiklander
Prize-winning cellist Elisabeth Wiklander studied music performance at the University of Gothenburg and finished her Master of Music with honours at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 2008. Since 2013, she works at the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Elisabeth is also a teacher at the institution Ljungskile Folkhögskola in Sweden and has taught orchestral performance at Music Conservatoires in Amsterdam, London and New York.
Elisabeth is autistic and a Neurodiversity Advocate. She has supported people touched by autism since 2006 and is a Cultural Ambassador for the National Autistic Society in the UK. She has been on an advisory panel at the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge and features in several articles and books. High profile media-appearances include a TEDx talk, The Daily Politics Show (BBC live), the program “Superungar” and the documentary “Diagnosresan” for Swedish Television. Elisabeth is involved in Neurodiversity projects worldwide and has given presentations to companies like Ubisoft, Ultranauts and PVH Corp.
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