Theorizing Autistic Sexualities as Collective Poetic Experiences

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Nygren, A. & Bertilsdotter Rosqvist, H. (2022). Theorizing Autistic Sexualities as Collective Poetic Experiences. Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.9707/2833-1508.1106

Publication date: 29 Nov 2022 Added to AutiHub: 4 Jul 2026 Type: Article Article language: English
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  1. Anna Nygren
  2. Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist *

Abstract

This article is a palimpsest emerging as part of a project of collective autoethnographic writing on the theme of sexuality. It draws on the intensification of friendly writing, friendly as in friends with benefits. We write as autistic and neuroqueer subjects, writing until our textualities becomes sexualities. We write until the text becomes a room – call it Earth or call it Body, call it Brain or call it Heart – in which one could crack meanings―but these are not the most important ones. Instead of meanings and positions, we want to write about movements in time. The time it takes to read a body that is never a body of your own but a part of a tiny orchestra. The time it takes to formulate a voice that speaks through mutism. This peculiar collection of letters works with our writing subjects as moments of memories. Reliving sexual moments – renaming sexual moments as sexual moments. Writing becomes an act of embodied and embrained tension and fusing. Maybe the text will revive in your hands—by reading it, you will write another version with us, of you. We are sensory strangers fucking through texts. Come play with us.

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