New at The Spiral Lab!
new perks, a new schedule, and a poll at the end
Hello Lab Rats!
Just a quick roundup of some new features here at The Spiral Lab:
A new perk for paid subscribers!
All of my courses and workshops are now 10% off for paid subscribers, including 10% off early bird discounted tickets. Right now this means that all paid subscribers get a discount code (including on flexible payment plans) on early bird tickets to Neuroqueering Your Creative Practice 2.0, until the end of the day tomorrow, Thursday 20 February, EST. After that, the discount codes still apply but the early bird discounts go away.
Subscriber 10% discount codes are below the paywall.
NQYCP early bird discounts have been extended for everyone!
Now available until the end of the day Thursday 20 February, EST.
We are also happy to work with you on individualized payment plans of more than three months if that makes the Neuroqueering course more accessible to you. Please contact KR Moorhead directly at krmoorhead.lit@gmail.com to work something out. We’re very flexible and really want you in this amazing course!
What is neuroqueering anyway?
Neuroqueer (v): the practice of queering (subverting, defying, disrupting, liberating oneself from) neuronormativity and heteronormativity simultaneously
Walker, Nick Dr., ‘Neuroqueer: An Introduction’ (2021)
Perhaps the most important thing for you to know about neuroqueering is that you don’t have to identify as neurodivergent, or queer, certainly not both, to engage in the verb of neuroqueering. As Nick Walker says, “If you neuroqueer [verb] you are neuroqueer [adjective]”. Everyone who is interested in neuroqueering is more than welcome in our course!
If you’d like to know more about what neuroqueering means, I invite you to listen to this interview by Jesse Meadows of me an KR over on Sluggish:
New TSL Publication Schedule
I have been trying to publish a newsletter once a week, because the conventional wisdom says that’s what I have to do in order to retain your interest, and especially your financial support. But I am discovering, especially as I have been turning a lot of my energy to other projects, that it is very difficult to put out something high-quality that often. I also really long to share more long-form, researched essays. If I had more time and bandwidth to work on these sorts of longer form essays, it is my hope they would eventually form the basis of books, future courses, and other media that I am dreaming and scheming about.
In order to accommodate all that, my plan is to begin publishing only three times a month, including two shorter (but still high-quality and helpful!) essays for free, plus one longer, more in-depth essay for paid subscribers. If you can’t afford a paid subscription now, rest assured that my intention is to put this work into the world in affordable and accessible ways down the road! But if you’d like to see how the sausage gets made in real time, and support my work so I can keep doing it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber!
Register your interest in my courses, workshops, and other projects
I don’t love being overly salesy here on The Spiral Lab, but as most of you know, my courses and workshops (and paid subscriptions) have become my family’s bread and butter now that my husband Joel lost his job and was diagnosed with cancer. While I will still announce new courses and workshops here, and probably include short reminders and links periodically, I would prefer to have a separate email list of people who are specifically interested in information about my various offerings. I am working on some exciting upcoming courses, shorter, affordable workshops, and a couple bigger and super exciting initiatives that I’m not ready to announce quite yet, but are in the works! If you would like to receive periodic information about these offerings and projects, as well as information about discounted tickets and coupon codes, please register your interest here. I promise not to overdo it on the emails, and to keep The Spiral Lab less cluttered with this sort of marketing.
A Poll About TSL Perks
I am thinking about introducing some new perks for paid subscribers. Please let me know which of the following would be most enticing for you to upgrade or maintain your paid subscription (please consider letting me know even if you aren’t able to pay for a subscription at this time!).