neuroqueer
/ˈn(j)ʊ.ɹoʊˈkwɪɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.
Example Sentences
- "Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses."
- "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."
- "My conceptualization of neuroqueer technoscience is also strongly influenced by 3 my own experiences as a multiply neurodivergent queer femme."
- "Neuroqueer is a queer/crip response to normative discussions about gender, sexuality, and disability as pathology."
- "Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈn(j)ʊ.ɹoʊˈkwɪɹ/
- British English: /ˈnjʊə.ɹəʊˈkwɪə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more neuroqueer (comparative)
most neuroqueer (superlative)
neuro-queer (alternative)
neuroqueers (plural)
neuroqueers (present, singular)
neuroqueering (participle, present)
neuroqueered (participle, past)
neuroqueered (past)