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Ashley, A. S. (2025). Neurotrans Affect. TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly, 12(2), 190-207. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-11710350

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Abstract Many neurodivergent people are also trans, and lived-experience narratives, creative practices, and research outputs have storied this intersection in powerful and capacious ways. Yet, in the face of increased antitrans hostility across the globe that relies on the mobilization of incoherent pseudologics, neurodivergent and trans persons are mutually imbricated, and in violent ways. This essay invites coalition among trans studies, critical neurodiversity studies, disability justice, and the literary health humanities to consider the effects of these violences and to think through the possibilities of choreographing shared potentials through nonnormative cocreation.

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