Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities

Written by Nick Walker

Narrated by Janet Metzger

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 for anyone seeking to understand the foundations, terminology, implications, and leading edges of the emerging neurodiversity paradigm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Dec 27, 2022
• ISBN: 9798765065921

Nick Walker

Nick Walker is a mild-mannered psychology professor, transdisciplinary scholar, and aikido teacher. She's co-edited three previous volumes of Spoon Knife and contributed stories to four. Her nonfiction work includes the book Neuroqueer Heresies and a recent chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Creative Futures. Together with fellow writer Andrew M. Reichart and artist Mike Bennewitz, she's co-creator of the urban fantasy webcomic Weird Luck (weirdluck.net).