The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the Heartstopper series. This book has so many great insights and has forced me to begin the work of undoing my internalized pathology paradigm.

Walker's most influential writings, along with new commentary by the author and new material on her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory. While the author is expansive in her views on who gets to be "neuroqueer," she is quite judgmental when it comes to the ways people choose to speak publicly about and embody autism in the world. Walker encourages the reader to be their true, authentic, oddball selves, regardless of what socio-cultural expectations dictate. There also seems to be a hierarchy of autistic people - those who should be trusted and those that are “tame autistics” benefitting from a life of internalized oppression. I loved the part about how disability should be looked at from the lens of society’s inability to accommodate neurodivergent people.Whilst I understand the need to express this problem, I also feel deep regret that so much of the writing had to be impacted by this discussion. One point of seeing neuroqueer as verb is that any and all people can learn to 'unzip their normal suits' and embody neuroqueer body movements and thought processes by getting in touch with their sensory impulses. This book is for those of us who were always railing against injustice, even when we didn't fully understand what it was we were fighting for or against.

I really recommend this for service providers and allies, a lot of it is certainly written for that audience. However, with this being one of the first academic texts on these topics, I would have hoped it would be a little less… lecture-y.What Walker has done in Neuroqueer Heresies is define and celebrate the neurodiversity paradigm, yanking autism out of the disease and medical model into its proper place as an example of a necessary diversity of neurotype. And finally, I got a little annoyed by Walker explaining the background behind every essay and where it was originally published, etc. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I have been looking for a book to recommend to families who are exploring their children’s diagnoses and also questioning if they, themselves, may also be autistic. The author clearly explains how the neurodiversity movement relates to disability justice, gender justice, and other interconnected liberatory movements.Her expansive definition of what it means to engage in "neuroqueering," and to "be neuroqueer," is refreshing. Many of the technical or academic sections, defining terms or laying the groundwork for understanding concepts, were written for an intellectual, and to risk being blunt, intelligent audience. The million copy bestseller, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and. Among the early sections of the book, the one that concerned me most was the grammatical prescriptivism chapter.

As a brief overview - I love and agree with every point made, but really wish that these points were made with a little more sensitivity and a whole lot less ranting. Ultimately a great book, but I feel I would have gotten as much out of it from reading the second half alone. I would highly recommended this book to anyone interested in autism, neurodiversity theory, queer theory, or any combination of these. This book has MANY typos—mostly just missing words that made me reread several sentences multiple times. Use of the word 'diverse' to refer to one minoritised individual carries the implication that those with privilege are just 'normal'.Autistics and other neurodiverse people' could be a powerful thing to say, depending on the other words that follow. But unfortunately, these wonderful nuggets of information are densely wrapped in a tirade about the people who get it wrong, with a chapter and a half seemingly entirely devoted to ranting about this. Through a critical lens, she explores why the neurodiversity paradigm rejects the medicalisation of autism and neurodiversity. If your personal and professional life intersects with neurodivergent folx (and we are kind of everywhere, I'm afraid) then this is a rocking good guide to the future we're imagining for ourselves.