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  • Authors: Anna Nygren (2023)

  • Virginia Woolf’s words about the need of five thousand a year and rooms of our own (yes, I deliberately choose to keep the exact formulation of ‘our own’ in the passage quoted in the introduction, since the shift into ‘one’s own’ indicate an individualisation, separate from the collective of women which Woolf’s our points, that is in many ways relevant but also hides part of the feminist collective struggle and possibilities), are not only famous but have become much more – vulgarised and almost biblical, metaphorisised until absurdity yet still physically relevant and materially exact. This volume takes the quote from Woolf and expands it into a series of essays, which all have a phy...

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  • Authors: Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist; Anna Nygren; Sarinah O’Donoghue (2023)

  • This paper is a neuroqueer reading of the novel A Room Called Earth (2020) by Madeleine Ryan. In the paper, we explore and theorise a neuroqueer reading practice. Ryan’s novel depicts a neurodivergent experience of life and the world, through a neurodivergent literary form and style. Reading as neurodivergents, the content and the form melt together – it is more than ‘literary style’, it is a way of existing. This reading, and our writing about our reading, is not neutral. It is an engaged and personal reading, where we let our reading subjects fuse with the text. Important in our neuroqueer reading practice is the context of reading and writing.