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Presidential Invited KeynoteKristen Gillespie-Lynch, Ph.D. College of Staten Island%u201cThe Neurodiversity Movement: Exploring its History, Controversies, and Possibilities to Promote Positive Development\Autistic people reframe the diagnostic category \an innate inability to connect socially, into a social identity which they use as a rallying call for collective action, often under the banner of the neurodiversity movement. The neurodiversity movement reframes disabilities as invaluable for societal progress yet inherently challenging at times. By exploring autism history through the lens of the neurodiversity movement, we can help neurodivergent people thrive while making society more just.Virginia Staudt Sexton KeynoteDeborah Tolman, Ph.D., Hunter College%u201cAdolescent Girls' Sexuality and Relationships: Sexual Be(com)ing in the Flesh\Psychology has evaluated adolescent girls%u2019 sexual/ity development as linear trajectories of emergence: public hair and breasts, sexual (risk) behaviors, identities, good or bad relationships. I will discuss the conceptual limitations and innovations in psychology (in)forming my research on girls%u2019 sexual desires, pleasures, embodiments and psychic lives. I propose %u201csexual be(com)ing,%u201d displacing linearity with %u201ceverything mattering all at once%u201d--dynamic assemblages x