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Dr Clem Bastow
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Dr Clem Bastow is a screenwriter, cultural critic and award-winning critical Autism studies researcher from Naarm–Melbourne. By day, Clem is Senior Tutor in Screenwriting at the University of Melbourne; by night, Clem works as a screenwriter and neurodiversity consultant for film and TV (Spooky Files; ABC/BBC, 2024-25). Clem’s debut non-fiction book, Late Bloomer, was published in 2021, and they are co-editor with Jo Case of Someone Like Me: an anthology of nonfiction by Autistic writers (UQP, 2025). Their writing appears regularly in The Guardian.
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