Mind Colonization: Autistic Knowledge, Epistemic Violence, and the Fight for Narrative Sovereignty
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Mind Colonization: Autistic Knowledge, Epistemic Violence, and the Fight for Narrative Sovereignty
We might, for instance, consider autism as a kind of neurologically queer motioning. To be autistic is to be neuroqueer, and to be neuroqueer is to be idealizing, desiring, sidling.
Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
I have spent much of my life practicing nonautism, or what my autistic comrades call allism. The stuff of my real self is the stuff of neither reality nor selfhood, because autism supposedly impedes my capacity for knowledge of both self and other.
Melanie Yergeau • Authoring Autism
Epistemic violence results in subjugated knowledge, which are knowledges that have been rendered inadequate or below a certain scientific standard
Epistemic Violence
At its worst, heavily researched nonfiction risks becoming not only anti-feminist, but also inherently western and White, in privileging disembodied intellect—the clinical voice, the pretext of objectivity, as well as outside authority—over one’s own lived experience, body, and imagination (though as Toni Morrison has pointed out, imagination
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