Sublime

Before gays could “come out,” they had to be “ ‘connected to

the ways in which autistic people seek to queer those domains, to fuck up that which is already fucked up.

crip is to disability what queer is to LGBT; while each calls upon and is informed by the other, cripness and queerness cannot be reduced to stasis, and both resist the respectability politics that work to make marginalized people prosocial or governable.193 In like manner, there has been concerted work over the past decade to explode the axes of c

David Halperin attempts to define “queer” in his 1997 book, Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography, in which he argues that Foucault’s idea that sexuality is a product of discourse revolutionized gay and lesbian political activism. He describes “queer” as “whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in par

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.