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Neuroqueering Your Creative Practice (March 2025)
Neuroqueering Your Creative Practice (March 2025)

Tue, 25 Mar

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Zoom & Google Classroom

Neuroqueering Your Creative Practice (March 2025)

This course is an introduction to a variety of ‘neuroqueering’ practices, geared towards artists and creatives.

Time & Location

25 Mar 2025, 18:00 GMT – 10 Jun 2025, 20:00 BST

Zoom & Google Classroom

About the event

Neuroqueering Your Creative Practice:

Neuroqueer (v): the practice of queering (subverting, defying, disrupting, liberating oneself from) neuronormativity and heteronormativity simultaneously

This 12-week online course is co-facilitated by KR Moorhead, Marta Rose and Meg Max.


What is the course about?

This course is an introduction to a variety of ‘neuroqueering’ practices, geared towards artists and creatives. As a community, we will deconstruct capitalist/colonialist concepts of time, work, productivity, shame, ‘executive function’, giving and receiving feedback, and more, while simultaneously constructing new systems, languages, narratives, and ways of being/creating that subvert, defy, disrupt, and liberate us from neuronormativity and heteronormativity.

Sessions will feature a mix of facilitator presentation, practical and reflective writing exercises, and opportunities for group discussion. No attendees will ever be pressured to speak or share. 

See below for session titles and descriptions


Who is this course for?

Anyone who writes or makes art (or would like to). No previous knowledge or experience required.

“One can neuroqueer, and one can be neuroqueer. A neuroqueer individual is any individual whose identity, selfhood, gender performance, and/or neurocognitive style have in some way been shaped by their engagement in practices of neuroqueering, regardless of what gender, sexual orientation, or style of neurocognitive functioning they may have been born with.” (Walker, N.)


When will this course run?

Every Tuesday: March 25th - June 10th. 6-8pm UK/1-3pm EST


Where will this course run?

All sessions will run on Zoom. Sessions will be recorded and shared with all ticket holders.


What does it cost?

Early Bird Tickets: £169 (or 4 monthly instalments of £42.25) *available for one week

General Admission Tickets: £199 (or 4 monthly instalments of £49.75)

Click here for payment plans


Ticket refunds and payment plan cancellations can be made up to 7 days before the start of the course. After this, no refunds or cancellations can be made. If you have questions or concerns about this, please contact krmoorhead.lit@gmail.com before booking.

We reserve the right to cancel the course if we do not meet a minimum number of registrants. In this instance, ticket holders will be refunded the cost of their ticket minus any payment provider fees.


What is the group size?

We offer a maximum of 100 places - but are aware this is a large group. Each weekly session will be presented to the full group, but attendees will be placed in much smaller groups for discussions. Additionally, each facilitator will offer an extra one hour drop-in session per week, which will be centred around small group processing and reflection on the week's topic.​ Attendees are also encouraged to join the NQ Discord for connecting, communicating and creating in community.


Session Titles and Descriptions:


Introduction to Neuroqueering & Creative Practice (KR, Meg & Marta):

This first session will be an opportunity to get to know all three facilitators, and each other. KR will introduce the concept of Neuroqueering (through the writings of Dr Nick Walker) and how the course will be oriented around this. Meg will introduce the concept of Creative Practice and how we approach this from a neuroqueering perspective. Finally, Marta will host a peer support session designed to give space and opportunities to process and digest the session. There will be opportunities throughout to reflect on and discuss how we already practice neuroqueering in our lives and creative practices. 


Discovering Your Neuroqueer Lineage (Meg):

Despite irrefutable proof that neuroqueerness has always existed, it has consistently been erased, refuted or dismissed. We will discuss the impacts this ongoing erasure has on our creativity, reflect on our own creative lineages through a neuroqueer lens, and consider the impact our work might have on the future. 


Do it on Purpose: Neuroqueering Language & Style (KR):

Do you ever find that the ‘right’ word for something you experience just doesn’t exist, and so you have to make one up? When writing, do you find yourself eschewing the rules of ‘standard’ English grammar? Building on Meg’s session on creative lineage, we’ll create and collect our own neuroqueer vocabulary and stylistics. To do this, we’ll look at examples of reclaimed and newly created language, as well as the ways we naturally bend punctuation and sentence structure to fit our linguistic needs.


Disrupting Shame (Marta):

Shame is a powerful political tool used in almost every area of our lives—our families, our schools, our workplaces, even our identities—to wrench us into conformity with the values of industrial time and compulsory executive functioning.  How does shame show up in our lives? What does it feel like in our bodies? How does it creates dysfunction in our creative practice? Through freewriting and artistic invitations, we will examine some of the ways shame shows up and explore ways we can disrupt it so it becomes less and less debilitating. 


Monsters, Magic and Machines: When truth is stranger than fiction (KR):

Have you ever felt like an alien, observing humans as an outsider? Have you ever strongly related to an android character, striving to understand what it means to be human? Were you ever convinced you had powers like Matilda? Or that you were psychic? Have you ever found yourself feeling like Alice in Wonderland, the only sane person, in an insane world? Or like Frankenstein’s monster, forever the ‘other’? In this session we’ll consider how blurring the lines between realism and fantasy, autobiography and invention, fact and fiction, can allow us to get to the actual ‘truth’ of our lived experiences as neuroqueering individuals.


Unmasking Your Monster (Meg):

When we are forced to mask out in the world, how can we feel safe enough to unmask in our art? In this session we will harness the power of becoming unpalatable through unearthing, caring for, and tending to our most monstrous selves.


Creating in Spiral Time (Marta):

Neurodivergent people are often plagued by a sense that we have “wasted time” and “fallen behind” our peers in terms of productivity and creative accomplishment. If there is any hope for finding a more enjoyable and generative relationship with time, we need new metaphors that defy the contemporary Western ones that have colonized the world. We will explore alternative metaphors and values of slowness, spirals, cyclicality, and design. This session will offer opportunities for guided free writing exercises, art-making practices, and discussion. 


"Meander, Spiral, Explode”: Neuroqueering Narrative Structure (KR):

Marginalised people are rarely afforded the right to tell their own story. And when they are, they are expected to tell it in ways that maintain the status quo and reinforce dominant cultural narratives. Are all stories really three-act arcs, or the predictable hero’s journey? Or are some stories spirals and explosions? Do some journeys meander?  We’ll experiment with using alternative patterns and structures to create counternarratives, and deconstruct dominant concepts of memory, time, and perspective in storytelling.


Mise en Place (Marta):

Many of us struggle with getting started, maintaining momentum, and following through with our creative projects and lives, as well as caring for our spaces and supplies. We are often shamed for these struggles, but seldom examine the reasons these issues plague us in the first place. Mise en Place, a concept from the culinary world, offers a practice of slowness and pleasure in our creative projects and lives, and we will spend time in the session doing the mise en place for a project we are having difficulty starting, or that has stalled out in the middle. 


A Field Guide to Neuroqueering Your Creative Practice (Meg):

How do you put into practice what you've learned here? This session will offer a quick overview to help you digest the course material, suggest ways you might go about applying what you've learned, and offer practical frameworks to help you sustainably neuroqueer your creative practice.


Connection, Collaboration & Community (KR, Marta, Meg):

As the course winds down, the facilitators will take some time to share their own experiences of collaboration and community-building, as well as create space for attendees to explore and create connections, collaboration and community amongst themselves. 


Show & Share (KR, Marta, Meg):

This final session will function as an ‘open mic’ and ‘show and tell’ where attendees can share and discuss any art they have created (or are creating) throughout the course, as well as a chance to celebrate the time and energy we have spent together.


Full Course Info and FAQs


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Tickets

  • Early Bird Tickets

    Sale ends: 21 Feb, 05:00 GMT
    £169.00
  • 1:1 Tutorial w KR

    Sale ends: 25 Mar, 17:30 GMT

    This ticket entitles you to a one-hour 1:1 mentoring tutorial with KR after the course finishes.

    £50.00
  • 1:1 Tutorial w Marta

    Sale ends: 25 Mar, 17:30 GMT

    This ticket entitles you to a one-hour 1:1 mentoring tutorial with Marta after the course finishes.

    £50.00
  • 1:1 Tutorial w Meg

    Sale ends: 25 Mar, 17:30 GMT

    This ticket entitles you to a one-hour 1:1 mentoring tutorial with Meg after the course finishes.

    £50.00

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