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queering.earth
queering.earth Queering readings of literature, poetry, art, people and history. A collaboration between Helen Edgar and Ryan Boren, Stimpunks Foundation
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Every Day’s Most Quiet Need
Limerence read as monotropic attention rather than as a disorder — Glass, Beethoven, Huxley and García Márquez held against the line in Browning where a love poem stops climbing and comes down to the…
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The Five Unmistakable Marks
Lewis Carroll's Snark, a creature named before anybody saw it; Deleuze's empty square; and Kassiane Asasumasu, who coined neurodivergent and had to say so out loud.
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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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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 Army of the Upright
Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill, mounted as she left it in 1930. Illness missing from literature, a language that runs dry, and the sentence she revised into something stranger.
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Queering Earth
Reading the world through a queering lens — art, literature, poetry, politics, people, history — and asking what else any of it could have been. A Stimpunks Foundation and More Realms collaboration.
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How Recovery Changed My Perception Of Life
I frequently return to Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell as a kind of guide on my life. In parituclar, I am drawn to a section of the text entitled The Revelation of Sonmi-451. It reads as follows: To be…
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It’s Complicated: Polytropos, Odysseus, and Homer’s Odyssey
What if the thing that made Odysseus remarkable wasn't his many turns, but the one thing that never turned? A personal, AuDHD read on Homer's Odyssey and the words polytropos and monotropos.
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“I cannot live without my soul”: An Autistic Exploration of Wuthering Heights
What does Wuthering Heights look like through a neurodivergent lens? An Autistic personal reflection on monotropism, intensity, and love.
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Tides of burnout and being monotropic
“Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.” [And that may even be a…
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Monotropism & Collective Flow
In Milan Kundera’s novel, ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ (1981), he described the heaviness of life, the restrictive oppression and boundaries that can tie us all down, yet there is freedom in…
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Interview about The New Normal and Existence by David Gray-Hammond
In this first episode Natasha Golding interviews David Gray-Hammond (the podcast host) about his new books "The New Normal: Autistic musings on the threat of a broken society" and "Existence". Buy…