Tag: neurodiversity
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Picnic at the Zoo!
Who: Members of the Dripping Springs Friendship Club What: picnic lunch and zoo visit (bring your lunch/drink) They do not have water fountains, but do sell bottled water in the gift shop if needed. When: Friday ~ May 3, 2024 starting @ 12:30 PM Where: Austin Zoo ~ 10808 Rawhide Trail Austin, TX 78736 Why:…
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Neuroqueering Learning Spaces: An Exploration
This piece is by Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms. “Intentionally liberating oneself from the culturally ingrained and enforced performance of neuronormativity can be thought of as neuroqueering” Walker, 2021 neuronormativity = a set of norms, standards, expectations and ideals that centre a particular way of functioning as the ‘right way’ to be neuroqueer = subvert, defy, disrupt,…
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Call for Submissions: Neuroqueer Learning Spaces
Open Invite: Neuroqueer Learning Spaces We’re requesting community writing and art about neuroqueering education, play, and learning spaces. Ryan of Stimpunks and Helen of Autistic Realms are collaborating on a project. Any community work will be shared on the Stimpunks website and some work may be included in our chapter submission for Nick Walker’s new…
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Creating Cavendish Space on a Budget
Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe spaces suited to zone work, flow states, intermittent collaboration, and collaborative niche construction. Cavendish Space – Stimpunks Foundation Our advocacy for Cavendish Space and caves, campfires, and watering holes, prompts questions of how to create Cavendish Space on a budget and in one room. A book we highly recommend…
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Neurodiversity discourse is where we feel at home, because…
As part of what we do, we hang out in a lot of communities, both online and offline. Science communities, philosophy communities, psychiatry, sociology, healthcare, neuroscience, education, academia, parent groups, carer groups, family groups, peer support groups, etc. We have to advocate for our lives in all these realms. We understand and reflect the language…
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A Scrollytellying Journey Through the Rough Terrain of Lived Experience Punctuated with Art and Joy
Many revisions later… The first five pages of our website are a scrollytellying journey through the rough terrain of lived experience punctuated with spectacular art and music. Made with agony and joy, this is our story of surviving, reframing, and finding like-minded misfits. Scrollytelling is the fusion of scrolling and storytelling: a way to dynamically…
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What Is It like to Have a Gender Identity?
🚨This is not a drill!🚨 After years in the making, my paper on GI is finally out in MIND, one of the most prestigious philosophy journals in the world, of all places. ⬇️Why this is the most important paper on gender you’ll read this week, a thread:🧵 @floral_ashes Florence Ashley published an important and useful…
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Scientism and Epistemic Injustice: On the Problems with “Science of Reading”
“Science of Reading” particularly and #ResearchEd more generally, remind many of us in neurodiversity and disability communities of this from Alfie Kohn. The underpinnings of that ideology include: a focus only on observable behaviors that can be quantified, a reduction of wholes to parts, the assumption that everything people do can be explained as a…
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We Rebuild What You Destroy: A Celebration of The Linda Lindas and Punk DIY Ethos
We were really angry, and we decided to write a song about it. The Linda Lindas Talk About “Racist, Sexist Boy” We love The Linda Lindas. We’ve been following their work since “Racist, Sexist Boy” hit big online. We include their music, lyrics, and interviews all over our website to help us tell our story…
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It Take a Joyful Sound: New Wave, New Phrase, Neurodiversity
“Punks are outcasts from society. So are the Rastas. So they are bound to defend what we defend,” Marley concluded. Shortly thereafter, they began recording the single Punky Reggae Party, and by naming an underground social phenomenon, helped further it. Culture Clash: Bob Marley, Joe Strummer and the punky reggae party | Reggae | The…
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Finding Belonging in Collective Flow
Looking back with the vocabulary of neurodiversity, my career was much about seeking belonging in collective flow. Working on the WordPress core development team back in the early days of the project was a lesson in neurodiverse collaboration and developing collective flow. There’s nothing like working together toward a common goal to build community and…
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Belonging in School
Belonging is very close to the idea of feeling safe. Belonging in School: Resource Introduction Webinar – YouTube We added quotes from the recently released “Belonging in School – a school-level resource for developing inclusive policies” to our “Belonging” glossary page, to our “Accommodation” glossary page, and to the “The Feeling: Electric Belonging and Soaring…
