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Here's the Latest from Stimpunks
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Wendell & Wild: An Indictment of the School-to-Prison Pipeline with a Banging Black Punk Soundtrack
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“Wendell & Wild” has a Black punk soundtrack, a Black girl protagonist with a transgender friend, a critique of the school-to-prison pipeline, and Key & Peele. https://youtu.be/tJp5pLsXhgo The official playlist is full of Black and Queer Punk. It’s a banger. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX5GxLXfvv01I?si=62ccbc2bc2d440a8 Spoiler Alert: The following pullquote is revealed later in the movie and is spoiler-ish. We make it impossible for …
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The Sensory Hell of the Lunchroom
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Needless to say, the dining hall, as well as being busy, crowded and a source of multiple odours, was also very noisy, as trays were picked up and clattered back down, cutlery jangled, and metal serving dishes clanged against metal hot plates. Meanwhile, the children, squeezed into rows of tiny seats bolted on to collapsible dining tables, grew louder and …
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Five Ways to Welcome All Bodyminds to Your Learning Event
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We have detailed accessibility checklists and recommendations in our course "Enable Dignity: The Accommodations for Natural Human Variation Should Be Mutual", but for this piece we reduce down to five things you can learn and do to welcome all bodyminds to your learning event. Create real access pages. The logistics of disability and difference are overwhelming. Reduce that overwhelm with …
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What the Mods Mean for Disability Representation in Star Wars
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This video essay from Questing Refuge on disability representation and radical visibility in Star Wars is excellent and appreciated. In this video, I hope to highlight why aesthetic choices like we see with The Mods can make a lot of sense by exploring groups in real life that choose to stand out. how The Mods make disability representation in Star …
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Infinity Heart Brain Spine: Exploring Symbols for Interdependence and Pluralism That Might Just Be Fancy Pretzels
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At Stimpunks, we've been using this hand sign as a symbol of interdependence. The thumb and index fingers interlock to form an infinity symbol, and the remaining fingers form the point of a heart. Infinity + heart. To avoid confusion with the polyamory sign, which is very similar, we thought, "what if the heart is inverted and cuddled into the …
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What's Your Role in Social Change at 100 Seconds to Midnight?
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It is 100 seconds to midnight. “It is 100 seconds to midnight. We are now expressing how close the world is to catastrophe in seconds – not hours, or even minutes. It is the closest to Doomsday we have ever been in the history of the Doomsday Clock. We now face a true emergency – an absolutely unacceptable state of …
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100 Seconds to Midnight: The Need for a Human-Centered Education
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Our friends at Human Restoration Project released a very important documentary called "100 Seconds to Midnight: The Need for a Human-Centered Education". In January 2020 - in what now seems like a prophetic forecast for the distressing year to come - the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced to the world that it was “100 Seconds to Midnight”: “It is 100 …
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Stimpunks.org: A Knowledge Commons at the Edges
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Create open source communities instead of walled gardens of intellectual property rights – to create a global knowledge commons and to maximise collective intelligence.Replacing Control With Ecologies of Care | Autistic Collaboration Our Glossary, Field Guide, Library, Pillars, Gallery, and Courses steadily expand in depth and breadth. We’re building a knowledge commons and a space of openness, at the edges. …
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Tech Workers: Is Autistic Conversion Therapy, ABA, in Your Company’s Ad Stock?
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We autistic people helped build these tech platforms and companies and the collaboration cultures they run on. Is ABA, autistic conversion therapy, in the ad stock at the companies and platforms we poured our lives into? ABA ads are everywhere. YouTube videos that we embed on Stimpunks.org pages warning about ABA have ABA ads on them. It’s a systemic problem …
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Autigender and Neuroqueer: Two Words on the Relationship Between Autism and Gender That Fit Me
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These two words helped me figure myself out more. Passing them along. Table of ContentsAutigenderNeuroqueerComing to TermsNeurodiversity and Gender Autigender Autigender is not explicitly saying that "My gender is autism" - it's not about saying you are a boy, girl, enby, autism, whatever. It's about your relationship with your gender. Specifically, gender is a social construct. The primary deficit of …
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Sharing Your Story for Political Purpose
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People with disabilities need to make policies ourselves. We should get to use our stories to help change the world.Nothing about us, without us!Sharing Your Story For A Political Purpose The government makes a lot of policies, and many of those policies affect people with disabilities. Sometimes, the government makes policies without talking to people with disabilities. When that happens, …
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The Irie Smial Preserve is set on wooded acreage in Texas Hill Country. Breezes sweep grassy hills dominated by heavy-limbed live oak trees. Spring erupts in vibrant seas of wildflowers that change color as each species gives stage to the next. It’s a pastoral setting with plenty of room for clapping, flapping, and stimming freely. Table of ContentsTransportationParkingDoors, EntrancesSeatingSurfacesSensoryAllergensAirBathroomsFoodAccess to the OutdoorsCaves, …
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You Get All Sorts of People in the Library
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You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.Terry Pratchett Knowledge equals power… The string was important. After a while the Librarian stopped. He concentrated all his powers of librarianship. Power equals energy… People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true …
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License: Everything Is a Remix
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Create open source communities instead of walled gardens of intellectual property rights – to create a global knowledge commons and to maximise collective intelligence.Replacing Control With Ecologies of Care | Autistic Collaboration Our Glossary, Field Guide, Library, Pillars, Gallery, and Courses steadily expand in depth and breadth. We’re building a knowledge commons and a space of openness, at the edges. …
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Enable Dignity: The Accommodations for Natural Human Variation Should Be Mutual
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We’re also tired of repeatedly asking events to foreground accessibility, rather than treating it as an afterthought, or expecting us to come in and clean up their inaccessible mess. How to Make Your Social Justice Events Accessible to the Disability Community: A Checklist - Rooted in Rights Enable dignity in your spheres of influence with our course on access. Enable …
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Making Spaces Safer: Bodymind Affirmation and Access Intimacy
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The reality is that marginalized people experience discrimination in public spaces. As they move through their lives and through various spaces, they cannot predict if they will be treated with respect, let alone if they will be safe. When they attend a show or event at your space, they should be able to know what to expect, or at least …
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Neuroception and Sensory Load: Our Complex Sensory Experiences
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Neurodivergent people are hypersensitive to mindset and environment due to a greater number of neuronal connections. They have both a higher risk for trauma and a large capacity for sensing safety.Neuroception and the 3 Part Brain Table of Contents🫀🧠💥 Neuroception and Sensory Load🤢 In Our Own Words: The Complex Sensory Experiences of Autistic Adults🎪 Sensory Environment Checklist👁 Sight🦻 Sound👃 Smell …
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We Need Human-Centered Healthcare
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Reduction of healthcare inequalities for autistic people requires that healthcare providers understand autistic perspectives, communication needs and sensory sensitivities. Adjustments for autism-specific needs are as necessary as ramps for wheelchair users.Barriers to healthcare and self-reported adverse outcomes for autistic adults: a cross-sectional study | BMJ Open Table of ContentsWe Need to Reframe What We ProblematizeWe Need Real Empathy and Understanding for …
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Care work makes all other work possible.
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Care work makes all other work possible.ResolutioN On care Putting care—not just care work, but care—at the center of our economy, our politics, is to orient ourselves around our interdependence. We do this not because someone’s work is what makes them worthy. We do it so we all live and live with dignity. The Year That Broke Care Work | …
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Questions for an Industry: Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery?
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What on earth has been going on, in experimentation on our autistic loved ones?Who on earth thought we were no more human than a lump of clay?Ann Memmott PGC🌈 (They/she) on Twitter Table of ContentsIs Your Training from the 1940s?Are You Really Evidence-Based?Are You Disregarding Harm and Profiting From Our Misery?Do You Dishonour Autistic People?Are You Qualified?: Don't Confuse Your …
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Conceptual Portmanteau
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"Web-Based Conceptual Portmanteau" is an internet based expression of meaning that relies on web-based technologies to present a claim, argument, sentence, or text snippet with at least two of the following features as inherent to the text structure: embedded definitions, which are inextricably attached to the claim, argument, sentence, or text snippet. variant phrases of similar/different registers, including registers of …
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Privacy
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Living Privately. - Building and maintaining a sense of what to show in each social environment. - Discovering and creating new environments in which we can show more of ourselves. - Assessing where you can grow new parts of yourself which aren't (yet) for public display. On Privacy - Human Systems - Medium K12 classrooms--and most families--have bad password practices. Passwords for Google Classroom accounts are …
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Code
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Code has been my life, and it has been your life, too. It is time to understand how it all works. What is Code? What is Code? is great interactive longform offering an engaging look at the history of coding and software culture. It takes you from the hardware up to people and culture in an accessible way. For a …
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Aloneness
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Aloneness is a characteristic that many creatives embrace and yearn for. Being alone is anything but lonely. Reading, writing, and creating art all demand a personal space where one can be alone in peaceful silence to think, to imagine. As a neurodivergent creative, aloneness is always a requirement for me. It is a prerequisite and a portable sanctuary that allows …
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When is a straw more than a straw? It depends on who you ask. A plastic straw is an access tool I use for nutrition as a person with a neuromuscular disability. When sipping a latte at my favorite cafe, I use a plastic straw because I am unable to lift a drink to my mouth and it is safe …
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Systems Thinking Is Not Indigenous Holistic ThinkingIndigenous holistic thinking is not systems thinking because many Indigenous peoples and communities do not separate their world or landscapes into “systems” in the first place. I think that this is why the physicist’s argument over how holistic thinking is system thinking confused me, because as an Indigenous person I was never taught to …
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Most cyborgs are disabled people who interface with technology. We depend on a computer for some major bodily function. The tryborg — a word I invented — is a nondisabled person who has no fundamental interface. The tryborg is a counterfeit cyborg. The tryborg tries to integrate with technology through the latest product or innovation. Tryborgs were the first to …
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Cyborg
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I know you think cyborgs are always imminent. But not here yet. However, I am a cyborg. And cyborgs are first and foremost disabled people. We’re the ones who have a fundamental interface with tech. We’re the ones who depend on tech to actually live. And we’re not new. We’ve been here since Hephaestus. If you want a concrete example, …
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Human-Centered Education
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A human-centered education: Cultivates Purpose-Driven Classrooms Ends Dehumanizing Practices Demands Social Justice Builds a Human-Centered World https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPO66Kan9fQ001u6s30EvXqNTpV-Mkdjp https://youtu.be/h9gQXG9T1RM Build human-centered classrooms around four values: Learning is rooted in purpose-finding and community relevance. Social justice is the cornerstone to educational success. Dehumanizing practices do not belong in schools. Learners are respectful toward each others innate human worth. What is the Human …
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Critical Wellness
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Critical wellness and social-emotional learning rely on educators’ recognizing, understanding, and affirming students’ racial and cultural identities. Critical wellness is advanced as a necessity for educators and others who work in educational contexts with students whose social, emotional, and political landscapes have worked against them, their families, and their communities. Indeed, as the authors have conceptualized it, anyone working with …
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