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03452aam a2200361 i 4500 001 1FBEDAF8673311EEBF3E118F48ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231010010145 008 211208t20212021txu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1945955260 020 $a 9781945955266 035 $a (OCoLC)1287945422 040 $a WLU $b eng $e rda $c WLU $d YDX $d CIJ $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d JQF $d OCO $d UIB $d SILO 050 4 $a QP360 $b .W35 2021 082 04 $a 616.85882 $2 23 100 1 $a Walker, Nick, $e author 245 10 $a Neuroqueer heresies : $b notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities / $c Nick Walker 246 30 $a Notes on the neurodiversity paradigm, autistic empowerment, and postnormal possibilities 264 1 $a Fort Worth, TX : $b Autonomous Press, $c 2021 300 $a 193 pages ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "Weird books for weird people" --Title page. 505 0 $a What's in this book, and how it came to be -- Part I: The neurodiversity paradigm. The story behind "Throw away the master's tools" -- Throw away the master's tools: liberating ourselves from the pathology paradigm -- Comments on "Throw away the master's tools" -- Neurodiversity: some basic terms & definitions -- Defining neurodiversity -- Defining neurotypicality & neurodivergence -- Neurodivergence & disability -- Reflections on neurocosmopolitanism -- Part II: Autistic empowerment. The story behind "What is autism?" -- What is autism? -- Autism and social trauma -- Person-first language is the language of autistiphobic bigots -- On the practice of stimming -- The story behind "This is autism" -- This is autism -- Commments on "This is autism" -- For parents of autistic children -- Autism and the pathology paradigm -- Making the shift to the neurodiversity paradigm -- The story behind "Neurotypical psychotheraptists & autistic clients" -- Neurotypical psychotherapists & autistic clients -- Guiding principles for a course on autism -- Part III: Postnormal possibilities. Neuroqueer: an introduction. -- Comments on "neuroqueer: an introduction" -- A horizon of possibility: some notes on neuroqueer theory -- Acknowledgments. 520 $a "The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on human neurodiversity. Neuroqueer Heresies collects a decade's worth of Dr. Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, terminology, implications, and leading edges of the emerging neurodiversity paradigm." --back cover of book 545 0 $a "Nick Walker is a queer, transgender, flamingly autistic writer and educator best known for her foundational work on the neurodiversity paradigm, her development of the term neuroqueer and the concept of neuroqueering, and her contributions to fostering the emergent genre of neuroqueer speculative fiction. She is a professor of psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies, and senior instructor at the Aiki Arts Center in Berkeley"--Page [4]. 650 0 $a Neurodiversity. 650 0 $a Brain $x Variation. 650 0 $a Neuropsychology. 650 0 $a Autism. 650 0 $a Queer theory. 941 $a 1 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010031730.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1FBEDAF8673311EEBF3E118F48ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search