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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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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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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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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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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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Monotropa Uniflora and Monotropism
Monotropa Uniflora & Monotropism: A Tribute to Dinah Murray
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Monotropism: A Poem
A poem about monotropism for children, young people, families and educators to open conversations about Autistic & ADHD experiences.
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Monotropic Time & Neuroqueering Temporalities
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…