This conversation with Nick Walker is focused around the notion of neuroqueering and neuroqueer fiction as an approach to subversion and transformation. We talk about cultural norms around gender, sexuality, and cognition; cognitive liberty; weird fiction; madness; the war on the imagination; how to embrace being flamingly weird; and why, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, “Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”

Nick Walker is an autistic genderqueer author, educator, and aikido teacher whose work explores the edges and intersections of embodiment, neurodiversity, gender, consciousness, and transformative practice.

Nick is a faculty member at California Institute of Integral Studies, and Managing Editor of the independent publishing house Autonomous Press. He holds a 6th degree black belt in aikido and is Senior Instructor at the Aikido Shusekai dojo in Berkeley, California.

Together with his longtime collaborator Andrew M. Reichart, Nick is the co-creator of an ever-growing body of intricately interconnected speculative fiction stories known as the Weird Luck Saga.

Show notes:The Weird Luck website: https://weirdluck.org/

Spoon Knife 3: http://autpress.com/2018/10/whats-in-spoon-knife-3/

Spoon Knife 2: https://autonomous-press.myshopify.com/products/spoon-knife-2-test-chamber

Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: https://www.diversebodiesdiversepractices.com/

Autonomous Press: http://autpress.com/

The Aikido Shusekai dojo: http://aikiarts.com/

Neurocosmopolitanism blog: http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/

Nick on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickwalkersensei/

Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WalkerSensei