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Reimagines neurodiversity through intersections of race, disability, and social justice
Neurodiversity has progressed from niche activism to a household term; our culture is now saturated with social media ads promising to "train" ADHD brains and media tropes like the quirky savant. But amidst this barrage of content urging self-optimization against a neurotypical template, Neurofutures pauses to ask: what comes next? Editors Diana R. Paulin, M. Remi Yergeau, Ralph James Savarese, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson gather a diverse array of scholars and creatives to think through "crip time" — sideways, chronic, manic, and executive dysfunction time — to reimagine the future of cognitive difference.
Moving beyond a simplistic celebration of diversity, the collection interrogates the intersections of race, disability, and social justice. Contributors offer "mad provocations" that span from Black neurodivergence and Afrofuturism to neuroqueer paradigms and animal liberation. Through analyses of cultural texts — ranging from the folklore of "Little Eight John" to the speculative worlds of Octavia Butler and Shirley Jackson — the essays deconstruct the violence of neurotypical norms while advocating for the rights of neurodivergent people to full lives and care.
Neurofutures refuses the linear march of progress, instead delving into the complex, often hidden realities of lived experience to map a world that welcomes divergence, dissent, and deep compassion.
Elizabeth J. Donaldson is the Inaugural Director of the School of Applied Sciences and Arts and Professor of English at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic Campus. She is the editor of Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health.
Diana R. Paulin (Editor)
Diana Paulin is Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of American Studies & English at Trinity College and the author of Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction.
Ralph James Savarese (Editor)
Ralph James Savarese is the author of seven books, most recently Herman Melville & Neurodiversity, Or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?, and the coeditor of three other collections. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
M. Remi Yergeau (Editor)
M. Remi Yergeau is Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication and Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Carleton University. They are the author of Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness.