Here are some changes we made to the website in September.

Week 36

• Add a few open Discord communities to the “People That Help Us Cope” section of “Coping Field Guide”.
• Add “The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project” to our library page.
• Make layout updates to “Equity”.
• Publish “For a “Fair” Selection Everybody Has to Take the Same Exam: Please Climb That Tree
• Publish Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for August 2024.
• Dusted off our web shop and added a product listing for “Interaction Badges Template”.
• Update Asynchronous Communication with quotes from Best Practices for Online Meetings with AAC Users.
• Update An Inclusive Conference Model for Our Times with quotes from Best Practices for Online Meetings with AAC Users. Add examples of creating caves, campfires, and watering holes online.
• Translate navigation menu changes to the 9 languages we currently support.
  

Week 37

• Publish DEIB.
• Publish Stim-Watching.
• Publish Suicide.
• Break the Library page into separate collections.
  
  • Fundamental Texts of Progressive Pedagogy
  • Books Every Progressive Educator Should Read
  • Silberman Collection: Autism Books For Parents and Clinicians
  • Silberman Collection: For Autistic People, by Autistic People
  • By the Stimpunks Community
  • In Our Own Voices 2022 and 2023
  • Autistic Collaboration Trust
  • The Autism Books by Autistic Authors Project
• Update Access Intimacy.
• Update Creating Cavendish Space on a Budget.
• Added The Dennys Grand Slam and When Denny’s Became A Mosh Pit – What Was The Denny’s Grand Slam? to the “Appropriate Space” section of our Punk glossary page.
• Add EALA to Allies page and update layout.
• Expand our Privacy Policy to include breakdowns for the plugins we use.
• Install WP Consent API.
• Install Complianz Consent Manager.
• Generate GDPR compliant cookie consent banner.
• Create GDPR/EU compliant Cookie Policy page.
• Update Creator Grants page with latest boilerplate.
• Published Find Your Voice Self-Advocacy Cards.
• Update Meritocracy with quotes from the books “Meritocracy and Its Discontents” and “The Education Wars”.
• Expanded Autism Pathway with sections on “Healthcare Access”, “Communication Access”, and “Space Access”.
• Update Site Map with Learning Pathways.
• Massive update to all seven pages in our front page journey.
• Update 🗺 Site Map with lily pads from front page.
  

Week 38

• Publish Practicing Our Art Makes Our Souls Grow.
• Update Autistic Rhizome.
• Update translations for templates and for Neurodivergent glossary page.
• Published Participant preference was for autistic-led peer support.
• Updated Impact page with latest stats.
• Updated Sensory Trauma. It’s been getting traffic, so we tidied the layout.
• Updated About Us: A Feisty Group of Disabled People and created Emeritus.
• Updated Coping with a crisis hotlines section.
• Published What We Learned About Virtual Conferences at Virtual Pride.
  

Week 39

• Added subsections to Autism Pathway and a callout for the monotropism questionnaire.
• Our front page and Education Pathway now feature choice quotes from HRP on “Empty Pedagogy, Behaviorism, and the Rejection of Equity” and more narrative around our conflict, goal, and desired change.
• Added quote to Autistic kids need access to autistic communities.
• Published Tonic Masculinity.
• Published Racial Weathering.
• Broke Minority Stress into sections and added “Racial Weathering” section.
• Published Epistemic Trespassing.
• Published Performative Neurodiversity (Neurodiversity Lite).
• Published Lost Cause.
• Published Southern Strategy.
• Updated Resentment.
• Updated Systems of Power Pathway with Lost Cause and Southern Strategy.
• Published Intelligence.
• We did a first pass at incorporating Jim Irion’s latest pieces on suicide prevention into our Coping page and our Suicide glossary page.
• I updated “Foreground complexity as the baseline.” to better address the question: How do we foreground complexity as the baseline without being overwhelmed by that complexity? DEIB and progressive ideas are framed as adding red tape, when in fact they often cut through swathes of red tape. They foreground complexity while providing timeless tools for managing that complexity.