Date and Time
- Thursday, May 28, 2026 6:30pm - 8pm
Location
Wine Down SF
685 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94107
Details
Scottish comedian Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she'd had loads of boyfriends and is good at eye contact. It took until she was thirty-four to get a diagnosis. Strong Female Character is about the years in between—and the unique combination of sexism and ableism that so often prevents autistic women from being believed.
In a memoir as hilarious as it is heartbreaking, Brady traces her chaotic, nonlinear journey: from her working-class upbringing in Bathgate, Scotland, to a psychiatric facility as a teenager, to stripping, getting arrested, finding a lifeline in comedy, and finally her breakout appearance on Taskmaster as her full, unmasked self. It's a coming-of-age story and a sharp, furious reckoning with a world that kept telling her who she was supposed to be.
Strong Female Character is a story of how being female can get in the way of being autistic—and how being autistic gets in the way of being the "right kind" of woman.
