Week 15 was a full week.
We published Week 14’s changelog. Then kept building.
The work spread across every major register we operate in: homepage copy, glossary, brand documentation, research framing, events infrastructure, community sharing, and the Learning Space page — our most philosophically dense page — which received its most significant expansion to date.
If there’s a single thread running through all of it: we made more of our thinking visible. Not just what we do, but why. Not just what we believe, but how the pieces connect.
Homepage: Connective Tissue
The ARLES section got the clearest upgrade. Previously, it opened cold — a design method appearing after a systems declaration with no bridge between them. Now it has one. The expansion traces the move from “we fix systems” to “here’s how” — and grounds each layer of ARLES in something concrete before the poster arrives.
We also added light transitional writing to several other homepage sections, stitching the page into a more continuous read. The homepage has been accumulating strong individual sections for months. This week’s work was about the mortar, not the bricks.
Glossary: Two Pages, Sharper
Functioning Labels was expanded with quotes from Words That Wound: Why Functioning Labels Harm Autistic People. The page already made the argument; it now has additional voices making it too.
Situational Mutism received a new video and layout updates — cleaner presentation for a term that matters.
Brand: The Business Card Rationale
We published Stimpunks Foundation Business Card Design Rationale — a full account of the design system behind the business cards: rainbow umbrella logo, Atkinson Hyperlegible, Solarized palette, Philly Pride flag accents, light and dark modes, one card per team member. The rationale lives at /about/brand/, the parent section for all brand documentation.
Research Section: Four Intros
The research section of the site got a round of intros this week — short framings that orient visitors before they enter each subsection.
- Participatory, Emancipatory, Activist Research — naming the tradition we work within.
- Useful Autism Research — framing the standard: does it help people live better lives?
- Facts, Fire, and Feels — the main research page intro expanded; the section’s purpose made explicit.
- Questions for an Industry — named the stakes directly: harm and profit.
Together these intros complete the section’s voice. You now know what you’re walking into before you arrive.
Events: Infrastructure and Pages
Events got a full buildout this week.
We published two guide pages — Infodumplings and Our Events Philosophy — and updated the Events Guide intro to hold them together.
Three individual event pages followed:
- Solidarity Session: The radical act of showing up for each other.
- Infodumplings: Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole
- Campfire Learn Together: Expert lecturers. Community wisdom. Zero hierarchy.
The Events page received a “Recurring Events” section, a “Recurring Meetings” section, and an expanded intro.
Stimpunks has been running these events for a while. Now the site can say so.
Field Guide: GRADE EtD
We added The GRADE EtD Framework and Stimpunks to the Field Guide — applying the GRADE Evidence to Decision framework to autism intervention research and mutual aid as an evidence-aligned alternative to the dominant model.
The dominant intervention model for neurodivergent and disabled people fails its own evidentiary standards. GRADE EtD gives us a rigorous framework for saying so — and for pointing toward something better.
Learning Space: The Biggest Expansion Yet
The Learning Space page received its most substantive expansion to date. This was structural and philosophical work, not cosmetic.
What changed:
- A new paragraph linking to the GRADE EtD page anchored the evidentiary critique: the dominant intervention model fails its own standards.
- “Our Foundation” expanded by four paragraphs, tracing the philosophical lineage from banking education → sivistys → Finland 2045 → GRADE EtD. Dewey and Freire are now connected to the whole-child / Frankenstein-children framing explicitly. The evidence and the philosophy now converge on the page, not just in our heads.
- Six section intros added throughout the page: “Our Philosophy,” “The Need Is Great,” “A better future is possible,” “Our Style,” “We Weave Together,” and the Foundation → Style transition.
The Learning Space page has always held our most developed thinking about education, environment, and human flourishing. After this week, it better shows that.
Community Sharing: NDConnection Toolkit
We published Sharing: NDConnection’s Neurodiversity-Affirming Care Toolkit + SPACE Series — a community post connecting NDConnection’s work to Cavendish Space, Neuroqueer Learning Spaces, and SPACE-TIME. Includes alt text for the Autistic SPACE Framework diagram.
We share when something is good. This is good.
Zine Walls: Two New Distillations
We published two new Zine Walls this week:
Zine Walls are fun distillations — main takeaways with a punchy, manifesto feel. Created from existing pages when the work calls for light preoccupation.
The Throughline
- The homepage got connective tissue — transitions where cold opens used to be.
- Events infrastructure went from implicit to published: guide pages, event pages, recurring sections.
- The Learning Space page received its deepest expansion, threading philosophy and evidence together explicitly.
- Research section intros completed a voice that was already there.
- Two Zine Walls, two glossary updates, one brand rationale, one community share, one GRADE EtD Field Guide entry.
Week 15 made visible what was already true.
Changelog
- Published “Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 14 2026: From the Nervous System to the Funder Brief“.
- Expanded “The Stimpunks Design Method: ARLES” section on the homepage with connective tissue bridging from the preceding “We Fix Systems” section.
- Added light transition writing to other sections of the homepage.
- Expanded “Functioning Labels – Stimpunks Foundation” with quotes from “Words That Wound: Why Functioning Labels Harm Autistic People“.
- Updated “Situational Mutism – Stimpunks Foundation” with a new video and layout updates.
- Published “Access — Zine Wall – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Published “Stimpunks — Zine Wall – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Published “Stimpunks Foundation Business Card Design Rationale – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Added an intro to “Participatory, Emancipatory, Activist Research – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Added an intro to “Useful Autism Research: Welcome to This Very Important Update – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Expanded the intro to “Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Added an intro to “Questions for an Industry: Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery? – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Published “Infodumplings – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Updated the intro to “Events Guide – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Published “Our Events Philosophy – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Published “Solidarity Session: The radical act of showing up for each other. – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Published “Infodumplings: Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Published “Campfire Learn Together: Expert lecturers. Community wisdom. Zero hierarchy. – Stimpunks Foundation“.
- Updated “Events – Stimpunks Foundation” with a “Recurring Events” section, a “Recurring Meetings” section, and an expanded intro.
- Added “The GRADE EtD Framework and Stimpunks” to the Field Guide.
- Added a paragraph to “Learning Space – Stimpunks Foundation” linking to the GRADE EtD page.
- Expanded “Our Foundation” on the Learning Space page with four new paragraphs connecting Dewey, Freire, sivistys, Finland 2045, and the GRADE EtD framework.
- Added intros to “Our Philosophy,” “The Need Is Great,” “A better future is possible,” “Our Style,” and “We Weave Together” sections on the Learning Space page.
- Added a Foundation → Style transition on the Learning Space page.
- Published “Sharing: NDConnection’s Neurodiversity-Affirming Care Toolkit + SPACE Series – Stimpunks Foundation“.
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