neuroqueer

English

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ queer.

Adjective

neuroqueer (comparative more neuroqueer, superlative most neuroqueer)

(neologism) Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.
- 2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness‎^[1], page 123:
  Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.
- 2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society, volume 33, number 1, page 124:
  Neuroqueer perspectives challenge typical understandings of identity categories through disidentification processes. A neuroqueer project not only questions typical conceptions of gender but also pivots away from normative gender categories altogether.
- 2022, Jessica Sage Rauchberg, “Imagining a Neuroqueer Technoscience”, in Studies in Social Justice‎^[2], volume 16, number 2, page 372:
  My conceptualization of neuroqueer technoscience is also strongly influenced by 3 my own experiences as a multiply neurodivergent queer femme.
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Hyponyms

(of a neurodivergent gender identity): gendervague, neurogender
(of an autistic gender identity): autigender

Noun

neuroqueer (countable and uncountable, plural neuroqueers)

(neologism, uncountable) The state or quality of being neuroqueer.
- 2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society, volume 33, number 1, page 124:
  Neuroqueer is a queer/crip response to normative discussions about gender, sexuality, and disability as pathology.
- 2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 188:
  Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.
- 2022, Peter Kuppers, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, unnumbered page:
  For a primer on the issue of neuroqueer and its roots in multiple discourse fields from queer aversion therapy to antiautistic hate speech, see Yergeau 2018.
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(neologism, countable) One who belongs to the neuroqueer community.
- 2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:
  In this regard, the potential of a prosthetic, specialized environment is the always-now —any change could result in neuroqueers backsliding into neuroqueerity.
- 2019, Nadia Erlam, “Cognitive Dispossession: Ecofeminism, Entheogens, and Neuroqueering Drug Policy”, in Chiara Baldini, David Luke, Maria Papaspyrou, editors, Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing, unnumbered page:
  For those of us who inhabit the spaces between the cracks, the neuroqueers who wander outside a prescribed notion of “cognitive normalcy,” we know things are not that simple.
- 2020, Lindsay Eales, Danielle Peers, “Care haunts, hurts, heals: The promiscuous poetics of queer crip Mad care”, in Journal of Lesbian Studies, volume 25, number 3:
  We affirm that there is nomore important queer project than for neuroqueers, crips, and non-normates more generally to survive with an essential flourish (Peers, 2018) in the face of that which would render our most basic needs undesirable, untenable, unreasonable, or “special.”

Synonyms

(state or quality of being neuroqueer): neuroqueerness

Verb

neuroqueer (third-person singular simple present neuroqueers, present participle neuroqueering, simple past and past participle neuroqueered)

(neologism) To make or become neuroqueer.
- 2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:
  I believe in the potentialities of autistic stories and gestures, of neuroqueering what we've come to understand as language and being.
- 2018, Anna Reading, “Neurodiversity and Communication Ethics: How Images of Autism Trouble Communication Ethics in the Globital Age”, in Cultural Studies Review, volume 24, number 2, page 120:
  King’s video neuroqueers the dominant popular cultural image of autistic people always having great powers of visual memory by showing a different version of this.
- 2021, Kristen L. Cole, “Neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory: listening to autistic object-orientations”, in Review of Communication, volume 21, number 3:
  Listening to autistic narratives reveals possibilities for neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:neuroqueer.