Dr. Nick Walker is a queer, transgender, flamingly autistic writer and educator known for her foundational work on the neurodiversity paradigm and Neuroqueer Theory, and her contributions to the emergent genre of neuroqueer speculative fiction. She is co-author of the urban fantasy webcomic Weird Luck, and author of a handful of short stories and the essay collection Neuroqueer Heresies. As Managing Editor of the worker-owned indie publishing house Autonomous Press, she has co-edited and contributed to multiple volumes of the annual Spoon Knife neuroqueer lit anthology. Dr. Walker is senior aikido instructor at the Aiki Arts Center in Berkeley, California, and a professor of psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies.

In this episode we talked about akido, world building, story and character creation, collaboration, comics, autism, trans experience, the comics of Matt Howarth and Nick's literary works, including the Weird Luck web comic (available here: https://weirdluck.net/comic/1-1-0-the-swiftcorp-incursion/)

Special thanks to Robert Chapman who let me record this episode in their spare room!

There is an (unedited!) video version of this episode available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=8&v=c2w9Z7WMC0w&feature=youtu.be

Links to some of the things discussed by Nick are available here: https://shu.padlet.org/dscb18/i3zo84abx2yn13wo

More info here: https://ruling-passions.com/2022/12/06/podcast-episode-5/