Adjective: "(neologism) belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodiversity and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities"
2015 May 4, Nick Walker, “Neuroqueer: An Introduction, by Nick Walker”, quoted in 2018, Jason Daniel Tougaw, The Elusive Brain: Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience, Yale University Press (→ISBN), page 261
2016, Zachary A. Richter, "Melting Down the Family Unit: A Neuroqueer Critique of Table-Readiness", in Disabling Domesticity (ed. Michael Rembis)
2018, Michael S. Jeffress, International Perspectives on Teaching with Disability: Overcoming Obstacles and Enriching Lives, Routledge (→ISBN):
We are neurodivergent and neuroqueer everything around us. According to Nick Walker (2015), neuroqueer means, among other things, to be actively
2018, Julia M Rodas, Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe, University of Michigan Press (→ISBN)
Among these terms, “neuroqueer” figures prominently. Adopted from an established community of autistic writers and thinkers, including Ibby Grace and Melanie Yergeau, neuroqueer gestures toward a cultural history shared by neurodivergent and queer peoples and speaks to overlaps of identity and experiences of (resistance to) forced compliance.
2018, Heather Stone Wodis, Girls With Autism Becoming Women, page 52:
The personal narrative presented by Dawn perhaps comes closest to neuroqueer-situated theory because of the way she probes social norms, like compulsory heterosexuality and compulsory able-bodiedness (Garland-Thomson 2005).
2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, page 123:
Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.
2019, Justine E. Enger, "'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification", Gender & Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, February 2019, page 124:
Neuroqueer perspectives challenge typical understandings of identity categories through disidentification processes. A neuroqueer project not only questions typical conceptions of gender but also pivots away from normative gender categories altogether.
2020, Donnie TC Denome, "Autism Speaks' rebranding co-opts neurodiversity", The Student Life (Claremont Colleges), 21 February 2020, page 6:
I'm a human, too: autistic, neuroweird, neuroqueer, disabled, brain damaged and all.
2020, Austin Gerhard Oswald, Shéár Avory, & Michelle Fine, "Intersectional expansiveness borne at the neuroqueer nexus", Psychology & Sexuality:
We try to attend with empathy and dignity to the struggles, freedom dreams, and aspirations of neuroqueer youth living in an unfree world.
2020, David Ben Shannon, "Neuroqueer(ing) Noise: Beyond ‘Mere Inclusion’ in a Neurodiverse Early Childhood Classroom", Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, Volume 9, Number 5 (2020), page 492:
In a British education context, ‘inclusion’ usually refers to the physical integration of neuroqueer children into a mainstream school.
2021, Sarah Cavar & Alexandre Baril, "Blogging to Counter Epistemic Injustice: Trans disabled digital micro-resistance", Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 41, Number 2, Spring 2021:
Neuroqueer bloggers comprise a significant share of these communities, oftentimes creating genders and pronouns specific to their neurodivergences as they uniquely impact their genders (Cavar and Baril, 2021).
2021, Merri Lisa Johnson, "Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder", in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Volume 46, Number 3, Spring 2021, page 636:
At the risk of oversimplifying my argument by previewing these different concerns, neuroqueer feminism shifts emphasis from single-axis to intersectional feminism, from critiques of sexism to critiques of ableism, and from top-down discursive analyses to bottom-up material or phenomenological analyses of BPD.
2021, Alex Masse, quoted in Kelly Chia, "Fairything and SIESKI dazzle live audience at Queer Code Pride Event", The Peak (Simon Fraser University), 27 September 2021, page 13:
"More themes of gender euphoria, and more themes of neuroqueer love, and [...] just neuordivergent self love."
2021, Cristal Robinson, "2021 Year in Review - A Legal Perspective", QNotes, 24 December 2021 - 6 January 2022, page 14:
In addition to the rights of the neuroqueer community, she is also involved in helping many other diverse communities.
2022, Monica C. Kleekamp, "Neuroqueer", in Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education (eds. Kamden K. Strunk & Stephanie Anne Shelton), page 412:
Individuals claiming a neuroqueer identity recognize that discourses of person-first language or celebrated differences do not shift ableist constructions of neurological functioning as they purport to do.
2022, Jessica Sage Rauchberg, "Imagining a Neuroqueer Technoscience", Studies in Social Justice, Volume 16, Issue 2, page 372:
My conceptualization of neuroqueer technoscience is also strongly influenced by 3 my own experiences as a multiply neurodivergent queer femme.
Noun: "(neologism) the state or quality of being neuroqueer"
2019, Justine E. Enger, "'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification", Gender & Society, Volume 33, Issue 1, February 2019, page 124:
Neuroqueer is a queer/crip response to normative discussions about gender, sexuality, and disability as pathology.
2019, Aimée Morrison, "Un)Reasonable, (Un)Necessary, and (In)Appropriate: Biographic Mediation of Neurodivergence in Academic Accommodations", Biography, Volume 42, Number 3, page 697:
That is, “neuroqueer” has heuristic value in deconstructing the biographic mediation of faculty disability in accommodations regimes.
2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, University of Chicago Press (→ISBN), page 188:
Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning. Corbett O'Toole elaborates that neuroqueerness ...
2022, Peter Kuppers, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, unnumbered page:
For a primer on the issue of neuroqueer and its roots in multiple discourse fields from queer aversion therapy to antiautistic hate speech, see Yergeau 2018.
Noun: "(neologism) one who belongs to the neuroqueer community"
2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:
In this regard, the potential of a prosthetic, specialized environment is the always-now —any change could result in neuroqueers backsliding into neuroqueerity.
2019, Nadia Erlam, "Cognitive Dispossession: Ecofeminism, Entheogens, and Neuroqueering Drug Policy", in Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing (eds. Chiara Baldini, David Luke, & Maria Papaspyrou), unnumbered page:
For those of us who inhabit the spaces between the cracks, the neuroqueers who wander outside a prescribed notion of “cognitive normalcy,” we know things are not that simple.
2020, Lindsay Eales & Danielle Peers, "Care haunts, hurts, heals: The promiscuous poetics of queer crip Mad care", Journal of Lesbian Studies, Volume 25, Issue 3:
We affirm that there is nomore important queer project than for neuroqueers, crips, and non-normates more generally to survive with an essential flourish (Peers, 2018) in the face of that which would render our most basic needs undesirable, untenable, unreasonable, or “special.”
2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:
I believe in the potentialities of autistic stories and gestures, of neuroqueering what we've come to understand as language and being.
2018, Anna Reading, "Neurodiversity and Communication Ethics: How Images of Autism Trouble Communication Ethics in the Globital Age", Cultural Studies Review, Volume 24, Number 2, page 120:
King’s video neuroqueers the dominant popular cultural image of autistic people always having great powers of visual memory by showing a different version of this.
2019, Nadia Erlam, "Cognitive Dispossession: Ecofeminism, Entheogens, and Neuroqueering Drug Policy", in Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing (eds. Chiara Baldini, David Luke, & Maria Papaspyrou)
2020, Monica C. Kleekamp, "'No! Turn the Pages!': Repositioning Neuroqueer Literacies", Journal of Literary Research, Volume 52, Issue 2, page 127:
He neuroqueered his reading of this text by turning it upside down andbackward.
2021, Jennifer Blair, "Understanding David Eastham’s Neuroqueerness", Studies in Canadian Literature, Volume 46, Number 1:
I draw mainly from Yergeau’s theorization of the relationships between autism, queer bodies, and rhetoricity to argue that Eastham’s writing neuroqueers linguistic expression and the social conventions, […]
2021, Kristen L. Cole, "Neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory: listening to autistic object-orientations", Review of Communication, Volume 21, Issue 3:
Listening to autistic narratives reveals possibilities for neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory.