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neuroqueer: nodes fer uh Grammuh C
1.
neuroqueer.
neu roq ueer.
new rock uhr.
neuro queer.
neuro queer. ya hear?
neuro queer. ya here?
we’re hier (not
archy)
in
da blogosphere
makin’ a
new grammar.
2.
see, dere’s a Grammar A (Weathers,
1980). Dat’s da grammar uv white people priv leged
privy ledged
shit rocks
old white
dead men upper class
dey
ain’t got no class
dey
don’t have to
dey
above all dat, knowutmsayin?
head
uv da class
dey
above da class
dey
da ony class
dey
de FINE da class
dey
create da class
deys
n mein class
class ic
class ick
icky
poo
ick shit
stan dard english
the language that
made the r-word
the langue
the tongue
slidin’
around, slippery
in
they mouth
leering,
ogling, staring
eng lish
ing lish
tongue
of white people
tongue
of privilege
tongue
of power
tongue
of control ling us
ing lish
controlling
us
locking us up
lock king us down
lock queen us in back wards
lock cock us outta da fore ground
lock cunt us into da out side
eng lish
ang uish
ang lish
the langue of the Angles
the langue that made right
angles
and str8ght lines
no
room for queer lines
bent lines
out lines
out liers
these
cannot be
imagined
drawn
(and
quartered)
painted in Grammar A.
Grammar A is the grammar of binary
of het
of two dimensions
of a single Euclidian plane that while
extending forever
goes nowhere
3.
see, dere’s a Grammar B (Weathers,
1980). dis da grammar
grandmudder
uv hipsters
cool
cats
hot
sax
bits and
pieces and
fragments and
parts and
it repeats itself
it repeats itself
it repeats itself
it repeats itself and
others little complex loops forward
and back
sentences that go nowhere sidewise around and around and
around painting circles and songs and stories and pomes about the day and night
in counter-hegemonic dialects, mixing
it up
messing it up messinwidit
Grammar B is da grammar uv exploration
finding
the edges
discovering
the boundaries
describing
the margins
but
it remains binary
it
remains het
it
remains planar
it understands the edges of the plane, may even live there,
but does not go beyond
it remains caught up in the meaning-making
meaning-receiving
of
the given structures of the dominant
dominating
hegemony.
3.
Now Grammuch C, see, dats a hole new ting.
Neuroqueer
New rock we’re
Neo rhizomatic {who} we are
creates
da Grammuh C
Gramercy (Park)
grant mercy on we see
granmudder sea (great ocean waves
huge tsunamis
crawling across da world
whirled
wired,
weird
word)
Grammuh C, se[a]e, under
over stands
sits
knowsvlike no udder grammah dat “the politics of the flesh
are the roots of power”
(Le
Guin, 1995, p. 158).
neuroqueer makes Grammah C.
creates it.
builds it.
speaks it.
da gnu wurd.
a noo langue.
a nui tongue, slipping slowly and
cairfully ovar sweet new flesh. licking
licking
this Grammah C iz
outside da margins
off da map
nah: dey
iz no map
it
works
it
feels
it
loves
in
three dimensions
nah: in
more: a multiverse
the
polyverse
a
poly amorous verse
uh many
imagined cross
inter
trans
not
one
not
da udder
nod
even inbuhtween
odd
but
a gnu notevenimaginedyet
poly amorous verse
many pome-making tongue-entwined langue
leg-entwined
a new writing
a new writhing
a new exciting
a new inviting
a new delighting language
tongue languishing
languid
body sandwiching
cultural
way uv be-ing. nod a pidgin
nod
a dialect
uh hole new weigh uv being
with each other
speaking
to each other
living with each other
neuroqueer
makes Grammuh C.
insists on Grammuh C.
demands Grammuh C.
a revolution for Grammuh C.
Grammuh
C eliminates racism
patriarchy
ableism
hegemony
classism
institutions
heterosexism
capitalism
all
da udder isms.
fuck yo Grammar A.
we gon bury dat shit.
cuz “all alphabets are prisons” (Z.
Richter, personal communication, March 27, 2014).
neuroqueer
makes Grammar C.
Impossibly,
References
Le Guin, U. (1995). Four
ways to forgiveness. NY: HarperPrism.
Weathers, W. (1980). An
alternate style: Options in composition. Rochelle Park, NJ: Hayden
Book Co.
[Pic of the mobius strip or infinity or sideways eight in rainbow tones on black square with words neuro queer.]
