The Body Is Not Fix(ed)
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About the autistic author markerRosqvist, H. B., Chevalier, C., & Nygren, A. (2026). The Body Is Not Fix(ed). In The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies (1st ed., pp. 105-117). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356387-11 · ISBN : 9781003356387 · Place of publication : London
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This chapter explores how neurodivergent people reclaim authorship of their own bodyminds through sensory knowing, collective writing, metaphors, and neurodivergent togetherness. Beginning from embodied sensory experience as a valid form of knowledge, the authors describe using “Notes”, which are small, partial, sensory reflections, as a way of creating meaning collaboratively. They contrast this with “diagnostic authorship”, in which medical systems define and limit neurodivergent identities. Drawing on bodymind theory, autistic community knowledge, and concepts such as masking, interoception, flow, and autistic flourishing, the chapter highlights how neurodivergent ways of sensing and processing shape everyday life. It also develops an “ethics of strangeness and not-understanding”, recognising that shared oppressions do not erase differences shaped by race, gender, class, or history. Through collective, sensory, and poetic practices, the authors reauthor neurodivergent bodies as sites of knowledge, connection, and agency.
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