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Other People Who Have It
Octavia Butler's hyperempathy, which Sami Schalk reads as a disability with no real-world equivalent, and the Autistic people who have been describing it under the same name for years.
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Blogs
Posts from neurodivergent writers and the blogs the Library follows.
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Two Cohabitating Modes
Why this cabinet has a sibling built on science: the fox and the hedgehog from Archilochus to Berlin to Gould, two public-domain animal poems that end in the same place, and the spiky profile the…
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What This Site Knows About You
Privacy — Notes & Rationale Almost nothing, and this page says exactly which almost.
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The Preferred Flower of Life
Monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe: a plant with no chlorophyll that feeds off fungi, the flower Emily Dickinson called the preferred flower of life, and the Greek root it shares with monotropism.
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What this cabinet is for
The mission of queering.earth, in thirteen aims — each with the page where it is already being kept, and the failure that would show we had stopped. Then what a cabinet of readings has to do with a…
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Nothing here was inevitable
The manifesto of queering.earth: normal is an arrangement and arrangements have authors, weird is a verb, and a reading is where an arrangement gets contested. Adapted from the Neuroqueer Learning…
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Find a word in the cabinet
Search every sheet, every quotation and every correction on this site. The searching happens in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere, including to us.
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The attribution ledger
The ledger for every quotation and credited idea on Queering Earth: what we quoted, whose it is, where it came from, and the day somebody read the primary source and confirmed the wording. Including…
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What is settled, and what is open
The decision log for Queering Earth: what is settled, what is still open, and the reasoning for each — including the designs that were refused, and why.
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What this site knows about you
Almost nothing, and here is the whole of it: two view preferences your own browser keeps, and the server log our host writes. No analytics, no cookies, no forms, and one embedded recording that…
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The Blood Was Made of Ants
Zine No. 103 — Kin on a lizard that borrowed everything, the ant it borrowed it from, and a comeback story told backwards
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The Die Uncast
Christina Rossetti's Promises like Pie-crust, read as a charter for solo polyamory — the relationship escalator refused in 1861, and the colon her first printing keeps where everyone else prints a…
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Wyrd, Weird, and the Invention of Normal
Wyrd was Old English for fate. It became weird, and then weird became a diagnosis. A sheet on the demotion of a word, the Weird Sisters, changelings, refusal, and an idea of normal barely two…
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Miranda: To Be Wondered With
Shakespeare coined Miranda's name from the Latin for wonder at. A reading of The Tempest and Waterhouse's 1916 canvas: a boy actor, an editor who moved her hardest speech into her father's mouth, and…
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The Swell and the Dwell
Emily Dickinson's Wild nights – Wild nights! read as co-regulation: the winds futile rather than stilled, the compass and the chart put down, and one night asked for instead of a lifetime. With a…
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A Waste Garden, Flowering at Its Will
Violet, pansy, green carnation, and lavender were worn as code. Each was read by the people it was meant to escape and turned into the word that named you, and each was picked up again afterwards.…
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The accession register
The changelog for Queering Earth: every sheet as it was mounted, every plate that came off again, and every label we corrected — including the attributions we got wrong and exactly how they were…
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It Stays Green, and Then It Goes
Zine No. 102 — Young Readers A read-aloud about what a leaf actually does in autumn — which is not what anybody thinks — with every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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One Ear Higher Than the Other
Zine No. 101 — Young Readers A read-aloud about a bird whose two ears disagree about up and down — with something you can try, and every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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Almost All of It Is Holes
Zine No. 100 — Young Readers A read-aloud about a seed that flies on the parts that are not there — with something you can try, and every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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The Dog Breathes Out Sideways
Zine No. 99 — Young Readers A read-aloud about a nose that does not blow the smell away — with something you can try, and every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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Nobody Knows Where the Dog Came From
Zine No. 98 — How We Got Here On the first animal we ever domesticated, a skull that was a dog and then a wolf, two camps who stopped speaking, and a truce that produced a better answer than anyone…
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The Channel You Cannot Mask
Zine No. 97 — Star Stuff On four dogs, thirty-six strangers, 675 correct trials out of 720, and why the quiet room with the dogs is restful for a reason nobody flatters anybody by naming.
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The Cuttlefish That Can’t See Colour
Zine No. 96 — Young Readers It matches whatever it sits on, it cannot see colour, and nobody has worked out how — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where the…