We updated “Change” with a selection from “Keynote: A Critical Reflection on Our Struggle for a More Just and Loving World – Dr. Antonia Darder”.

…engage with the epistemic disruptions that are necessary if we are to change the world.

Keynote: A Critical Reflection on Our Struggle for a More Just and Loving World – Dr. Antonia Darder – YouTube

An important part of our mission at Stimpunks is reframing disability and difference and “developing a language in which we can both understand and challenge the world”. That reframing is a continuous act of epistemic disruption.

• Reframe Disability and Difference: We’re Going to Rewrite the Narratives – Stimpunks Foundation
• Glossary: Develop a Language in Which We Can Both Understand and Challenge the World – Stimpunks Foundation

The long-term well-being and empowerment of Autistics and members of other neurocognitive minority groups hinges upon our ability to create a paradigm shift – a shift from the pathology paradigm to the neurodiversity paradigm.

THROW AWAY THE MASTER’S TOOLS: LIBERATING OURSELVES FROM THE PATHOLOGY PARADIGM • NEUROQUEER

Such reframing is a logical response to oppression.

Anger is a logical response to the repeated trauma of oppression.

Keynote: A Critical Reflection on Our Struggle for a More Just and Loving World – Dr. Antonia Darder

To recognize the anger that comes with epistemic injustice and build an epistemology of love in its stead, we at Stimpunks embrace co-production, participatory research, emancipatory research, and activist research.

An epistemology of love implies a way of coming to know another beyond intellectual or academic knowing, an extended or enriched way of knowing and living with another.

Vanessa Merkel

• Epistemic Injustice – Stimpunks Foundation
• Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #3: Mental Health and Epistemic Justice – Stimpunks Foundation
• Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #4: From an Ivory Tower Built on Sand to Open, Participatory, Emancipatory, Activist Research – Stimpunks Foundation

Via co-production, participatory research, emancipatory research, and activist research, we learn to be in community and do the work of translating community and voice into academic comprehension.

Our political work for social change begins seriously at the very moment when we become both critically aware and intolerant of the oppressive conditioning that obstructs our ability to be in community and obstructs our freedom.

Keynote: A Critical Reflection on Our Struggle for a More Just and Loving World – Dr. Antonia Darder – YouTube

A guiding star in our efforts at epistemic disruption is this statement from Andratesha Fritgerald.

The moment we become an expert on someone else is the moment we allow our biases to rule in power. And, it takes away honor.

What is anti-racist Universal Design for Learning (UDL)? feat. Tesha Fritzgerald

We love that. That statement gets at the heart of recognizing epistemic injustice and building an epistemology of love, so we included it on our philosophy page.

Celebrate our interdependence.

Organize our lives around love and care.

Our survival is bound up together.

Pluralism is our reality.

Philosophy – Stimpunks Foundation