Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber

The Spoon Knife Anthology is NeuroQueer Books' annual open-call collection to find new talent and to bring together our favorite regular contributors in a celebration of literature that pushes boundaries and defines the interiors of neurodivergent, Queer, and Mad experiences.

In Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber, editors Dani Alexis Ryskamp and Sam Harvey give you a series of examinations of what it means to live in an environment where one feels that existence itself is a series of tests that must be successfully navigated. From the back cover:

"The writers (and editors and publishers) of the book you now hold in your hands have this in common: we all diverge in some way(s) from the normative, the expected, the acceptable. We've all been pathologized, scrutinized, corrected--often, in horrible ways. As [we] write this, the United States finds itself in a new test chamber, one whose outputs will inevitably affect the rest of the world. Those of us throughout the world who find ourselves already marginalized, like the authors represented here, will suffer first, but we will not suffer alone. We all need the tools of defiance and resistance. In Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber, we explore what happens when the tools of defiance and resistance are applied to a particular purpose or demand. We test the test chamber in which we find ourselves, and in so doing, we find the power to subvert it."

Please join us for our second year celebrating the diversity and craft that goes into neurodivergent, Queer, and Mad literature, and enjoy the second round of Spoon Knife. You will find a number of familiar AutPress authors in its pages, as well as a few names of people who will be delivering books through the press later this year and more than a couple of authors we hope to see manuscripts from.

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Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber

The Spoon Knife Anthology is NeuroQueer Books' annual open-call collection to find new talent and to bring together our favorite regular contributors in a celebration of literature that pushes boundaries and defines the interiors of neurodivergent, Queer, and Mad experiences.

In Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber, editors Dani Alexis Ryskamp and Sam Harvey give you a series of examinations of what it means to live in an environment where one feels that existence itself is a series of tests that must be successfully navigated. From the back cover:

"The writers (and editors and publishers) of the book you now hold in your hands have this in common: we all diverge in some way(s) from the normative, the expected, the acceptable. We've all been pathologized, scrutinized, corrected--often, in horrible ways. As [we] write this, the United States finds itself in a new test chamber, one whose outputs will inevitably affect the rest of the world. Those of us throughout the world who find ourselves already marginalized, like the authors represented here, will suffer first, but we will not suffer alone. We all need the tools of defiance and resistance. In Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber, we explore what happens when the tools of defiance and resistance are applied to a particular purpose or demand. We test the test chamber in which we find ourselves, and in so doing, we find the power to subvert it."

Please join us for our second year celebrating the diversity and craft that goes into neurodivergent, Queer, and Mad literature, and enjoy the second round of Spoon Knife. You will find a number of familiar AutPress authors in its pages, as well as a few names of people who will be delivering books through the press later this year and more than a couple of authors we hope to see manuscripts from.

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Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber

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The Spoon Knife Anthology is NeuroQueer Books' annual open-call collection to find new talent and to bring together our favorite regular contributors in a celebration of literature that pushes boundaries and defines the interiors of neurodivergent, Queer, and Mad experiences.

In Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber, editors Dani Alexis Ryskamp and Sam Harvey give you a series of examinations of what it means to live in an environment where one feels that existence itself is a series of tests that must be successfully navigated. From the back cover:

"The writers (and editors and publishers) of the book you now hold in your hands have this in common: we all diverge in some way(s) from the normative, the expected, the acceptable. We've all been pathologized, scrutinized, corrected--often, in horrible ways. As [we] write this, the United States finds itself in a new test chamber, one whose outputs will inevitably affect the rest of the world. Those of us throughout the world who find ourselves already marginalized, like the authors represented here, will suffer first, but we will not suffer alone. We all need the tools of defiance and resistance. In Spoon Knife 2: Test Chamber, we explore what happens when the tools of defiance and resistance are applied to a particular purpose or demand. We test the test chamber in which we find ourselves, and in so doing, we find the power to subvert it."

Please join us for our second year celebrating the diversity and craft that goes into neurodivergent, Queer, and Mad literature, and enjoy the second round of Spoon Knife. You will find a number of familiar AutPress authors in its pages, as well as a few names of people who will be delivering books through the press later this year and more than a couple of authors we hope to see manuscripts from.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781945955020
Publisher: Neuroqueer Books
Publication date: 04/06/2017
Series: Spoon Knife Anthology , #2
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

Table of Contents

National Day of Testing / Dani Alexis Ryskamp - 5

What Gender is My Wheelchair? /N.I. Nicholson - 7

The Key to My Own Self / Amy Sequenzia - 13

Talk Back to the Chamber / Alyssa Hillary - 15

Bianca and the Wu-Hernandez / Nick Walker - 16

First Tattoo / Alison Black - 54

Testing Grounds / Arden Green - 55

A TAXONOMY OF BODILY INJURY / Andrea Abi-Karam - 59

Firewall: A Safe Mode Story / Clay Dillon - 61

Chains of Fire / Alyssa Gonzalez - 66

Switches / Monika Dryburgh - 74

Isolation With No Time / E Lewy - 77

(Un)becoming Mistakes / Nicole Eugene - 79

Words Left Unsaid / Alyssa Hillary - 80

Pair O’ Know Ya / Eleven Groothuis - 82

testing, testing. one, two. testing. / Phil Smith - 83

Madness in the Time of Grunge / Jacqueline Pruder St. Antoine - 93

Four Million Years Ago / Monday Dillon - 103

Scene From a Barbershop / Verity Reynolds - 106

With Lorde / Nicole Eugene - 113

Testings In the Chambers Of My Discontent: A Septet / Barbara Ruth - 113

Work the System / Michael Scott Monje Jr. - 140

The Rugged Beauty of Creating a Neuroqueer Space / Marrok Zenon Sedgwick - 143

Twenty Years Claiming My Self Aloud / Steven J. Singer - 155

how i got here / Meghan O’Hern - 169

shot(s) in the dark / Emma Whetsell - 171

Civil War / Athena the Architect - 175

Claire and Clarence / Alyssa Gonzalez - 177

Code School / Lynn Vargas - 183

Bone & Storm / Alex Conall - 186

Life is so Hard for Arlo / Michael T. Chin - 188

Being Trans and Autistic is Weird and Common / Alyssa

Gonzalez - 201

Moving into the House: A Memoir of Dreams / Sparrow Rose Jones - 206

A Day in Three / Alyssa Gonzalez - 218

Monsters / Andrew M. Reichart - 226

Afterword / Sam Harvey – 248

Contributors - 250

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