Neuroqueer Lyric Workshop with heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

Friday 20th February
7.30pm GMT/11.30am PST/2.30pm EST

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Despite mainstream neurotypical ideas about what constitutes poetry, neuroqueer poetics often reworks what is otherwise pathologized as symptom, revalues its lyrical potential, and queers its form. For example, through synesthesia, non-normative syntax, attention deficit redefined as attention abundance, animistic relating— how can we turn toward these neurodivergent modes of sensing and relating to space and time as openings for cultivating our poetic writing and artistic expression in ways more vibrant, strange, surprising, and transformative?

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a queer, non-binary, crip/disabled, brown, writer, artist, scholar, educator, cultural worker and creature of the Colombian diaspora. They are author of The Inheritance of Haunting (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), Ephemeral (Ecotheo Collective, 2024), Afterlives of Discovery: Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2025), Wayward Creatures (Host Publications, 2025), and Ampersand Organ: a more-than-human lyric (Milkweed Editions, forthcoming in 2026). They live in southern California.

Access details:

- This event will take place on Zoom
- There are autogenerated captions from Rev
- You can participate from your chosen place of rest, have camera on or off, and communicate using the chat function or voice.
- There will be short breaks
- You can email us for a free spot if you are facing financial barriers to this event

This was made possible thanks to funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.