Not an easy read, but worth the trouble (and there is the occasional Princess Bride and Monty Python reference thrown in to keep you entertained! Loved this essays, for weaving together queer theory and somatic experience with neurodivergent experiences and theories of neurodiversity. I am slightly annoyed to find that the ideas I thought I had that were original have actually been thought before, and articulated more elegantly than I could have done. i had a few issues with the writing itself, but i would still recommend this one to anyone interested in the connections between queerness and neurodivergence. If this makes you uncomfortable, it is worth persistence and engaging in self-reflection as you read further.

As someone who has sought to be the latter for many years, I still come away with several important reminders and tweaks I need to make to my approach and internal attitudes. As an academic/theoretical book, it can come across as a bit abstract, pedantic, and dry for those (like me) who prefer more interweaving of narrative. Through a critical lens, she explores why the neurodiversity paradigm rejects the medicalisation of autism and neurodiversity. The chapter does raise the good core point that neurodiverse should not be used as shorthand for autistic (in the same way that diverse should not be used as shorthand for black, for example).I personally felt that for myself a lot of it has been covered extensively elsewhere so it wasn't particularly revelatory for me. She is a professor of psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies, and senior instructor at the Aiki Arts Center in Berkeley. What Walker has done in Neuroqueer Heresies is define and celebrate the neurodiversity paradigm, yanking autism out of the disease and medical model into its proper place as an example of a necessary diversity of neurotype. Too often high-profile queer activism relies on shaming people for understanding gender and language in anything other than a middle-class way.

The long-awaited second instalment in Samantha Shannon's Sunday Times and New York Times-bestselling series Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory.Most people do not intentionally seek to harm those they love or work with, yet many of the current methods—which are accepted by society—are doing just that. Required reading for any scholar of trans, queer, disability, and/or neurodiversity studies from one of the preeminent scholars on neuroqueerness (and a co-coiner of the term!

The concept of neuroqueering has been transformative for me and I only wish for many many more people to learn about and engage with this concept. I would be worried about undergraduates reading this unedited early text in the privileged position of course textbook, primarily because the text assigns morality to normative grammar, unintentionally stigmatising those who don't construct sentences and assign meaning in the same way that the author does.Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement. ACT Contact / FAQ About Events / Videos Merch / Subs Sign in/up Neuroqueer Heresies : Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities Walker, Nick More by this author.