neuroqueer
Syllables: neu·ro·queerUK/ˈnjʊə.ɹəʊˈkwɪə//ˈn(j)ʊ.ɹoʊˈkwɪɹ/
neuroqueer adjective: belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.
Adjective
neuroqueer (comparative more neuroqueer, superlative most neuroqueer)
- Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.
- Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, page 123
- 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.2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society, volume 33, number 1, page 124
Noun
neuroqueer (countable and uncountable, plural neuroqueers)
- The state or quality of being neuroqueer.
- Neuroqueer is a queer/crip response to normative discussions about gender, sexuality, and disability as pathology.2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society, volume 33, number 1, page 124
- Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 188
- Synonyms:
- neuroqueerness
- One who belongs to the neuroqueer community.
- In this regard, the potential of a prosthetic, specialized environment is the always-now —any change could result in neuroqueers backsliding into neuroqueerity.2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, 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.2019, Nadia Erlam, “Cognitive Dispossession: Ecofeminism, Entheogens, and Neuroqueering Drug Policy”, in Chiara Baldini, David Luke, Maria Papaspyrou, editors, Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine...
Verb
neuroqueer (third-person singular simple present neuroqueers, present participle neuroqueering, simple past and past participle neuroqueered)
- To make or become neuroqueer.
- I believe in the potentialities of autistic stories and gestures, of neuroqueering what we've come to understand as language and being.2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page
- 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.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
Examples of neuroqueer in a sentence
- My conceptualization of neuroqueer technoscience is also strongly influenced by 3 my own experiences as a multiply neurodivergent queer femme.2022, Jessica Sage Rauchberg, “Imagining a Neuroqueer Technoscience”, in Studies in Social Justice, volume 16, number 2, page 372:
- 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 2018.2022, Peter Kuppers, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, unnumbered page:
- Listening to autistic narratives reveals possibilities for neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory.2021, Kristen L. Cole, “Neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory: listening to autistic object-orientations”, in Review of...
Synonyms of neuroqueer
Forms of neuroqueer
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more neuroqueer |
| superlative | most neuroqueer |
| alternative form | neuro-queer |
| Noun | |
| plural | neuroqueers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | neuroqueers |
| present participle | neuroqueering |
| past participle | neuroqueered |
| past | neuroqueered |
Origin of neuroqueer
From neuro- + queer.
Questions about neuroqueer
- What does neuroqueer mean?
- Neuroqueer means belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.
- How do you use neuroqueer in a sentence?
- My conceptualization of neuroqueer technoscience is also strongly influenced by 3 my own experiences as a multiply neurodivergent queer femme.
- What part of speech is neuroqueer?
- Neuroqueer can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce neuroqueer?
- Neuroqueer is pronounced /ˈnjʊə.ɹəʊˈkwɪə/ (UK).
Words near neuroqueer in the dictionary
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