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Nick Walker is an American scholar, author, webcomic creator, and aikido teacher, known for coining the term neuroqueer, establishing the foundations of neuroqueer theory, and contributing to the development of the neurodiversity paradigm. She is a professor at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). Early life and education Walker grew up in a low-income housing project in New Jersey, spent portions of her young adulthood homeless, and began attending college in her 30s. She received an Associate of Arts in liberal arts from Berkeley City College, after which she attended CIIS, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies, a Master of Arts in counseling psychotherapy, and a Doctor of Philosophy in transformative studies. Walker began practicing aikido at the age of 12, inspired by Samuel R. Delany’s novella Babel-17. She began teaching aikido while still in her late teens, and continued her practice and teaching even during periods of homelessness. Career Walker is a professor at California Institute of Integral Studies, and teaches aikido at the Aiki Arts Center in Berkeley, California. Her scholarly work focuses on the intersections of somatic psychology, transpersonal psychology, queer theory, neurodiversity, and creativity. She has described herself as a "queer futurist." She is Managing Editor of the worker-owned independent publishing house Autonomous Press, and a Consulting Editor for the journal World Futures. Writing Walker initially began writing about neurodiversity and developing her conceptualization of the neurodiversity paradigm in 2003, in online autistic activist forums. Her first piece on the neurodiversity paradigm to appear in print was the essay “Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm,” published in 2012. From 2013 to 2017, Walker published a series of essays on neurodiversity on her website (initially titled Neurocosmopolitanism and later retitled Neuroqueer), before shifting to publishing her work in more traditional academic venues. In 2021, Walker published her book Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities, collecting her existing essays along with 120 pages of new material reflecting the subsequent evolution of her views. Walker has also written and published speculative fiction stories set in the same universe as the Weird Luck webcomic, and co-edited multiple volumes of the annual Spoon Knife story anthology for Autonomous Press. Weird Luck Walker writes an urban fantasy webcomic called Weird Luck, co-written by speculative fiction author Andrew M. Reichart and illustrated by artist Mike Bennewitz. Paratheatrical Research From 1996 through 2015, Walker was a core member of Paratheatrical Research, a Jungian-informed experimental physical theatre group run by director Antero Alli. Walker appears in several of the underground films Alli directed and produced during these years, including Orphans of Delirium (2004), The Greater Circulation (2005), The Mind Is a Liar and a Whore (2007), To Dream of Falling Upwards (2011), and dreambody/earthbody (2012). Neurodiversity paradigm Walker has been a significant contributor to the development of the neurodiversity paradigm. According to Walker, the neurodiversity paradigm has three foundational principles: "Neurodiversity—the diversity among minds—is a natural, healthy, and valuable form of human diversity." "There is no 'normal' or 'right' style of human mind." "The social dynamics that manifest in regard to neurodiversity are similar to the social dynamics that manifest in regard to other forms of human diversity." She distinguishes the neurodiversity paradigm from what she calls the pathology paradigm, in which prevailing cultural norms of cognitive functioning are equated with health, and divergence from those norms is assumed to represent pathology. Walker emphasizes that her formulation of the neurodiversity paradigm does not reject the idea of framing certain forms of neurodivergence as pathological and seeking to treat them. She opposes framing autism as a pathology on the grounds that approaching it as if it were a pathology does not effectively serve the goal of promoting autistic well-being. She names traumatic brain injury as one example of a form of neurodivergence that is appropriately viewed through a medical lens. According to British philosopher and neurodiversity scholar Robert Chapman, Walker's formulation of the neurodiversity paradigm enabled "a broader analysis that goes far beyond autism," and "offered not just hope to countless neurodivergent people, but also an ideal to collectively work toward." Neuroqueer theory Walker originally coined the term neuroqueer in 2008, in a paper written for a graduate course in somatic psychology. The term was intended to encapsulate Walker's insight that neuronormativity was socially constructed and instilled like heteronormativity, and that "neuronormativity and heteronormativity are fundamentally entwined with one another, and therefore any significant queering of neuronormativity is also inevitably a queering of heteronormativity" and vice versa. Walker's formulation of neuroqueer theory developed over time, and in 2014 was influenced by conversations with fellow scholars Athena Lynn Michaels-Dillon, who had also come up with the term neuroqueer independently, and M. Remi Yergeau, who had been exploring similar concepts and using the term neurological queerness. Walker wrote the first formal definition of neuroqueer in an essay titled "Neuroqueer: An Introduction," which she published on her website in 2015. Yergeau's book Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (2018) made extensive use of the concept of neuroqueer. In 2021, Walker provided a comprehensive articulation of neuroqueer theory and its premises in an essay titled "A Horizon of Possibility: Some Notes on Neuroqueer Theory," which appears as the final and longest chapter of her book Neuroqueer Heresies. According to Walker, "Neuroqueer Theory applies the framework of Queer Theory to the realm of neurodiversity, and expands the scope of Queer Theory to encompass gender, sexuality, and neurodiversity, as well as the intersections of gender and sexuality with neurodiversity." Drawing on the work of post-essentialist queer theorists like Judith Butler who frame binary cisheteronormative gender roles as modes of socially enforced performance, Walker argues that there's no such thing as a "neurotypical brain," and that neurotypicality is a socially learned and enforced performance entwined with the performance of cisheteronormativity. Although the term neuroqueer has come into popular usage as an identity label, Walker maintains that this was never her intention, that neuroqueer "is not a mere synonym for neurodivergent, or for neurodivergent identity combined with queer identity," and that neuroqueer theory is "an app.... Discover the Steven K Kapp popular books. 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Make Me Forget
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Against the Boards
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Wormwood Abbey
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The Next Girl
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The Good Knight
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Anna Karenina
Leo TolstoyAn Apple Books Classic edition. “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Thus begins what many consider the world’s greatest novel. Leo Tolst...
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The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage
Halima KhatunWinner of the 2021 Bookbrunch Selfie Award for Best Adult I know I'll land a husband… but will he be the one? The Secret Diary of an Arranged Marriage – A Hilarious Romcom Tha...
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Last Resort
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Brush With Death
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Behind Closed Doors
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The Wedding Bet
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Mischief after Midnight
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Dracula
Bram StokerAn Apple Books Classic edition. Few characters have seized readers’ imaginations quite like Count Dracula of Transylvania, the hero of Bram Stoker’s classic. The 1897 novel put vam...
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Protect Me
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The Duke Who Knew Too Much
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Dark Psychology and Manipulation
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Rascal
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Scorned Queen
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If I Break
Portia Moore~THIS BOOK IS BEST ENJOYED WHEN YOU DON'T READ ANY REVIEWS OR SPOILERS BEFORE READING. GOING IN BLIND IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. I PROMISE!~ Cal effin' Scott. Hell in a Arman...
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Holy Bible
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Become A Better Version of Yourself
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Heartbreaker
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Destined Magic
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Imperfect Chemistry
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Knock Knock
Chris Merritt⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘ Wow. I absolutely loved this book!... I was not able to put it down from the moment I started it, so much so that I devoured it in just two days .’ Goodreads reviewer Natas...
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The Girls on Chalk Hill
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Dream Psychology
Sigmund FreudAn Apple Books Classic edition. Written by the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud’s 1899 book is the definitive text on learning to interpret dreams. Freud’s groundbr...
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The Grumpy Dinosaur
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Doubly Claimed
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Boy Toy
S. E. LundTate McNaughton. 24 years old. Gorgeous. An artist independenly wealthy and the heir to a huge fortune. He's way too hot for my own good and seems intent on doing eve...
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Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. MilneAn Apple Books Classic edition. If you haven’t met Winnie the Pooh yet, stop reading this, and start reading the bookyou’ll be so glad you did. The jovial stuffed bear and his ragt...
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The Cottage on Nantucket
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Tongue Twisters for Kids
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre DumasAn Apple Books Classic edition. Alexandre Dumas’ classic paints a portrait of Edmond Dantès, a dark and calculating man who is willing to wait years to exact his perfect plan for r...
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Her Texas Ex
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Silent Scream
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Love Notes
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When the Night is Over
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Frankenstein
Mary ShelleyAn Apple Books Classic edition. Mary Shelley was just 18 when she had a nightmare vision: “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. ...
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Sunrise at Crystal Bay
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Meditations
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Little Women
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Beautiful Storm
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Just One Time
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Teach Me The Ropes
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Collided
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Secrets of the Cottage by the Sea
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Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis CarrollAn Apple Books Classics edition. Travel back to Wonderland in Lewis’s acclaimed sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland . When Alice’s game of “Let’s pretend” turns real, she fi...
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No Room For Regret
Janeen Ann O'ConnellThe movement of the ship seals his fate. He could be sailing anywhere, anytime, but he's not, he's going to the other side of the world. He could be anyone, but he's...