Join us at Hares & Hyenas for the book launch of Divergences: An Anthology Of Neurodissident Worlds

Come on down as we introduce you to the book along with some live readings. Free vegan sweets (with gluten-free options) by little sweet tings, along with a video adaptation of Michiel Teeuw’s text Skim, Skier, Stim, which shows co-stimming with the ocean.

Divergences is a first of its kind: a literary collection of posthuman neurodivergent art and writing. But what makes it extra special is the punkish vein of neurodissidence throughout that refuses assimilation to a neuronormative world. Divergences does not approach neurodivergence as diagnosis or identity, but instead becomes a lens through which the norm itself turns strange—an alternate perceptual logic capable of reshaping how we think about intimacy, infrastructure, technology, and care.

Across essays, poems, stories, memoir, and hybrid texts, Divergences asks what happens when perception runs on different circuitry: when language fractures into vibration and pulse, when politeness and coherence reveal themselves as imposed postures rather than neutral baselines. This collection resists sentimental narratives of difference. There is no recovery arc here. Nervous systems appear instead as sites of conflict and capacity—hyper-attentive, analytical, erotically charged, exhausted, lucid. Divergences does not explain neurodissidence from a distance. It inhabits it—rigorous, volatile, and formally alive.