Bio: Reese Andrei Stoica is a young, up-and-coming activist who has lived his life at the crossroads of neurotype and gender diversity. After winning the "Rise for the World" scholarship for his magazine on transgender bodies and identity, his gaze shifted toward the intersection of gendered experience and neurodivergence, including the autism spectrum and giftedness.

Neuroqueering: The Dimensions of Gender

Gender plays a definitive role in the identification and expression of the self that may impact positive disintegration. That much is evident by the interactions between gender diversity, both in identity and non-conforming expression, and neurodiversity — especially for giftedness and conditions like the autism spectrum. I hope to address my personal experience growing up gifted, autistic, and trans, as well as the studies linking autism to gender dysphoria and gender nonconformity to giftedness, leaving participants with a non-pathologising framework that link the two worlds through the practice of neuroqueering — subverting both neuronormative and gender norms, showing how the two are inherently entwined. This results from the way gender roles shape our minds and ideas, as well as how individuation and active subversion of social conditioning undoes the socially approved forms of gender norms and identity. Such an analysis elucidates gender's role in Dabrowski's mental map.