Books For Littles

Raising Luminaries was founded by and is run by me, Ashia Ray. I am a multiracial (culturally Chinese/Irish American) Autistic feminine-presenting person local to (born & raised) around area currently known as Boston, MA, USA, (traditional homelands of the Wampanoag and Massachusett people).

I am the mother of two, co-parenting with a neurotypical white cishet partner. As the primary contributor of articles and research RL & ancillary spaces (unless otherwise specified) is filtered through my bias and perspectives.

Contributions: I provide roughly 35-55 hours each week of research, screening, book analysis, writing, editing, website maintenance, member services, facilitating group discussion, consultations, graphic design, comment moderation, membership moderation, post updates, collaboration coordination, archiving & maintenance, bookkeeping, fundraising, creating & editing tool kits, fielding messages and stuff, and probably some other things I’m forgetting toward the RL mission & objectives.

Financial: I receive financial support through member donations and affiliate income and direct it to cover the expenses of running RL, choosing which organizations we direct a portion of those contributions to. For details, check out the Financial Disclosures.

Benefits of participation: If all goes well, we will have smashed the kyriarchy by the year 2082. I personally benefit from this as an Autistic person of color in terms of opportunity and less risk as a target. You can find more details on this in the RL mission & objectives.