The Library of Neurodivergent Alexandria
An open archive of neurodivergent voices: writing, talks, podcasts and stories, gathered by the NeuroHub community.
A hall of the Library
Neuroqueer thinking, art and refusal, from rhizomes and Rothko to weird pride and the invention of normal.
“The growing cracks in the thin veneer of our “civilised” economic and social operating model are impossible to ignore”, Jorn Bettin (2020). As a late-diagnosed autistic person, I feel a massive…
Explore ethodivergent hearth building as a neuroqueer, relational practice of care, kinship, and more-than-human community with Autistic Realms & Stimpunks.
Explore ethodivergent hearth building as a neuroqueer, relational practice of care, kinship, and more-than-human community with Autistic Realms & Stimpunks.
Honouring the brilliant philosopher Helen De Cruz, whose work on wonder, thinking, and inclusion helped shape and inspire our Neuroqueer Learning Spaces and Cavendish Space. Her ideas continue to…
Mingling with the Universe" exploring Autistic meaning-making as sensory, felt, and more-than-human, where solitude becomes connection, and the world speaks in textures, rhythms, and resonance. It’s…
Memory may not be linear for neurodivergent people. It may feel like a spiral of felt sensations. Being monotropic shapes how I re-sense moments, navigating echoes and threads of sensory experiences…
When snow first falls, its flakes are delicate and vulnerable, but over time, a quiet transformation begins. Sintering is the process through which individual snow grains gradually begin to bond.…
Autistic/ADHD people are more likely to be monotropic and resonate with the theory of monotropism. Dinah Murray, Wenn Lawson, and Mike Lesser developed the theory of monotropism in the late 1990s. It…
Time as a double temporality problem, exploring interest gravity for monotropic people and flow as a temporal home.....
Dwelling in Resonance: Monotropism, Monotropic Time, Spirals & Neuroqueer Temporalities “Lodged in all is a set metronome” – (W. H. Auden, 1969 – from the poem In Due Season) Consider if you’re…
Cartographers are people who create maps, and they transform physical geography into an accessible format so people can navigate in and through the spaces of the world. I recently watched a National…
I experience and interpret ‘Being With’ as a process of be-coming together. Deleuze’s concept of the line of flight allows us to explore and follow meaning together. This article will explore these…
I believe that the DEEP (Double Empathy Extreme Problem) is at the heart of all the systemic ableist issues we have in our education, social and healthcare systems. The lack of an embodied presence…
Neuroqueering in Liminal Spaces “By silencing our bodyminds, they (neurotypical society) have halted the growth of a chaotic self. We are no longer able to move fluidly through our experience,…
David and Katie are joined by Bird Sellergren and Jaesic Wade to discuss affirming spaces and safe(r) spaces, as part of the podcasts pride month coverage! Click Here to Download the Neurodiversity…
Join David and co-host Katie Munday to explore the experience of coming out as Autistic and Queer. Katie's Facebook David's Facebook Autism Language Survey
A behind-the-scenes look into the collaborative workflow between Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms) and Ryan Boren (Stimpunks) as we write about Neuroqueer Learning Spaces (NQLS) and continue our…
Neuroqueer Learning Spaces Webinar — A summary and reflection Neuroqueer Learning Spaces is a community project led by Ryan Boren (Stimpunks) and Helen Edgar (Autistic Realms). More information is…
In this epsiode, David and guests explore and celebrate Weird Pride Day (March 4th). Tackling issues like privilege, weirding, and the possibilities that exist in a weirder world.
In this epsiode, David speaks to Ryan Boren of Stimpunks about neurofuturist ideas in education. From Campfires, to watering holes, to caves. This episode is essential for anyone with a progressive…
I am starting my new blog in the middle. I am in the middle of what is known as ‘midlife’ as I am forty-five; I am also mid-career, having resigned from teaching and not yet working in any other…
In this episode, David and Katie Munday (AKA Autistic and living the dream) discuss Katie's research into Autistic Trans+ experiences. Published research-…
In this episode, David Gray-Hammond invites Tanya Adkin and Charlie Hart (AKA Ausome Charlie) to speak about neurodivergence and Queerness.
In this episode, David is joined by Katie Munday, Charlie Hart, and Fergus Murray to talk about weirdness and Neurodivergent Identity!