Manifesto of autosurrealism: Towards a Neurocosmopolitan Reality. In N. Walker (Ed.), Neuroqueer anthology. Autonomous Press [Forthcoming].

Abstract: This manifesto introduces autosurrealism as a radical, embodied praxis that fuses the subversive aesthetics of Surrealism with the liberatory framework of neuroqueering. Drawing from neurodiversity theory, disability studies, queer theory, depth and somatic psychology, autosurrealism reimagines the self as a site of transformative play, where stimming, dream logic, and psychic automatism converge as tools for self-authorship and resistance. By reframing neurodivergent expression—particularly stimming—as a form of provocative magic and embodied art, the manifesto positions autosurrealism as a movement toward a neurocosmopolitan reality: a non-hierarchical, pluralistic world that honors divergence as creative intelligence. Through acts of disobedient embodiment and intentional self-shaping, autosurrealism dissolves the boundaries between normal and abnormal, real and surreal, inviting a future where neuroqueer presence redefines cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual paradigms.

Becoming-Creature: A Neuroqueer Approach to Autistic (re)Animation. [Submitted for publication].

Abstract: This chapter proposes a neuroqueer approach to psychotherapy that reimagines autistic embodiment beyond neuronormative frameworks through surrealist aesthetics, depth psychology, and somatic practice. Drawing on a detailed case exploration of an autistic, gender-fluid client (“Mika”), the chapter positions neuroqueering as a process of transformative self-authoring and embodied reanimation. Through the clinical integration of Authentic Movement, stimming, and imaginal inquiry, autistic modes of sensing, moving, and communicating are reframed not as deficits, but as portals to vitality, creativity, and cognitive liberty. Situating neuroqueering alongside Surrealism’s commitment to disrupting normative reality through automatism and the unconscious, the chapter conceptualizes autistic embodiment as a site of radical divergence and becoming. Mika’s engagement with a nonspeaking, creaturely self-state illustrates how embodied, nonverbal, and imaginal practices can facilitate shadow integration, re-membering, and the reclamation of authentic autistic being. The chapter argues that a neuroqueer-surrealist therapeutic stance—grounded in relational mutuality, non-pathologizing care, and embodied participation—offers an expanded model of psychotherapy that honors multiplicity, animacy, and non-linear modes of consciousness. Becoming-creature emerges as a liberatory praxis through which autistic bodyminds may reinhabit and reimagine themselves beyond the constraints of neuronormative “reality.”