Episode 6 - "Do You Think Anakin Likes Trains?"


Cultural Readings of the Jedi ft. alwaysfern

Sources

Onscreen Media

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return of the Jedi (1983)

Star Wars: Episode I – RThe Phantom Menace (1999)

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002)

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) – S3 Ep9, Hunt for Ziro

Star Wars Rebels (2014) S2 Ep11, Legacy, S4 Ep15-16, Family Reunion – and Farewell

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019)

The Book of Boba Fett (2021)


Novels

Hunters: Battle For The Arena by Mark Oshiro

Inquisitor: Rise of the Red Blade by Delilah S. Dawson

Revenge of the Sith (novelization) by Matthew Stover

Rogue Planet by Greg Bear

Brotherhood by Mike Chen

Race to Crashpoint Tower by Daniel José Older

Midnight Horizon by Daniel José Older

Cataclysm by Lydia Kang

Into the Dark by Claudia Gray

Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray

Path of Deceit by Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland

The Battle of Jedha by George Mann

Force Collector by Kevin Shinick


Comics

The High Republic Adventures (2021) #1, #2

Darth Vader (2017) #19


Publications

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) by Joseph Campbell and Phil Cousineau

Stories About Stories by Brian Attebery

NeuroDiversity: The Birth of an Idea by Judy Singer


Web Sources

Navajo Spider Woman on navajocodetalkers.org

Spider Woman, the Navajo goddess on native-languages.org

Spider Grandmother on wikipedia.com

Maureen Murdock’s Heroine’s Journey Arc on heroinejourneys.com

Judy Singer on wikipedia.com

What is autism? on autism.org.uk

Autism on who.int

Diagnostic Criteria | Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) on cdc.gov

The controversy over autism’s most common therapy by Elizabeth Devita-Raeburn on spectrumnews.org

What is ADHD? on cdc.gov 

Data and Statistics About ADHD on cdc.gov

What do “neurodiverse” and “neurodivergent” mean? on washington.edu

Is Star Wars Cultural Appropriation? by Julia Métraux on daily.jstor.org

Ram Jomaram on starwars.com

“the high republic always makes me think about force sensitives and jedi as both allegory and in universe interpretation for neurodivergence…” by @klaudiasays (user currently locked) on twitter.com (thread)

“Kids need to see neurodivergent kids in books, as main characters…” by @DelilahSDawson on twitter.com (thread)

Autistic Headcanon: Anakin Skywalker by user transmasclukeskywalker on tumblr.com

George Lucas - On "The Force" and its Ancient Origins on YouTube.com

Joseph Campbell and the Myth of the Monomyth | Part 1 by Maggie Mae Fish on YouTube.com

TikTok Gave Me Autism: The Politics of Self Diagnosis by Alexander Avila on YouTube.com


Wookieepedia Pages

Sun-dragon

Sun-dragon (Legends)

Rieve

Karr Nuq Sin

Force-sensitive

Elders of the Path

Path of the Open Hand

Cippa Tarko

Kaminoan