NeuroQueeries

From her autism diagnosis to exploring HRT, Soph has been on a journey throughout her 40s. In this conversation, Moth (they/them) and Soph (she/her) reflect on 3 years of HRT.  Show music: Luke McQuillan lukemcquillan.com 

Do each of us exist as mere isolated individuals? And if we are part of wider systems, what are the responsibilities we might have to one another? To ourselves? Moth (they/them) and Soph (she/her) explore what responsibility looks like through a neuroqueers lens.

This episode may not be suitable for all listeners and contains brief non-descriptive mentions of sexual trauma as part of an explicit conversation about sexuality.  Saying that queer sex can be healing might sound like a radical claim when juxtaposed with the way sex can also be a source of wounding, but being able to claim, define, and explore our sexuality as neuroqueer people can offer a revelatory and healing balm. In this episode, Soph (she/her) and Moth (they/them) build a starting template for how sex can be a healing modality for queer autists. 

Author Tris Husband joins Soph and Moth for a discussion about the concept of dyke as a gender. The three authors dive into lesbian history with an eye for the intersections, like being trans and neurodivergence.  Resources mentioned: The Self-Constructed Dyke My Gender is Dyke Stone Butch Blues

As a queer autistic person, how do you express your love to others? In this episode Soph and Moth apply a neuroqueer lens to nonverbal and verbal ways that a person might show love. Your hosts explore the problematic origin of love languages and then give them a very gay twist. Show music by Demon Grrl https://links.demongrrl.com/ Follow Soph Follow Moth

The stages of life and what it means to be human have long been defined by cis het norms around reproduction and a biological family. What could it mean to queer the life stages, especially in light of how some queer and autistic people have major realizations about who they are far into adulthood. Join two nerdy lesbian authors, Soph (she/her) and Moth (they/them) for this conversation. Show music by Demon Grrl https://links.demongrrl.com/ Follow Soph Follow Moth Mentioned in the episode The writing of Nick Walker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Walker_(scholar)

In their 40s, both Soph (she/her) and Moth (they/them) discovered their autism and queerness. Join these writers of indie trans lit and lovers of big talk in this debut episode as they journey through queerness, autism, and sexuality. Show music by Demon Grrl https://links.demongrrl.com/ Follow Soph Follow Moth Mentioned in the episode Talia Bhatt's essay on the third sex: https://substack.com/@taliabhatt/p-148363142 Fae'rynn's essay on dyke genders: https://www.patreon.com/posts/self-constructed-126344429 The Mansion by Chloe Slate: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210589250-the-mansion Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words :https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54377966-spectrums