Equity
Understanding Equity and Inequity (Certificate-Bearing)
A commitment to action: the process of redistributing access and opportunity to be fair and just.
A way of being: the state of being free of bias, discrimination, and identity-predictable outcomes and experiences.
Inequity
Understanding Equity and Inequity (Certificate-Bearing)
An unfair distribution of material and non-material access and opportunity resulting in outcome and experience differences that are predictable by race, socioeconomic status, gender identity, home language, or other dimensions of identity.
Equity is not a slogan. It’s a practice — a daily commitment to undoing barriers, redistributing power, and designing systems that meet real human needs.
At Stimpunks, equity is rooted in lived experience, disability justice, and neurodiversity affirmation. We know that access isn’t a menu of isolated accommodations. It’s the infrastructure that makes participation, belonging, and flourishing possible for all bodies and minds.
This page explains what we mean by equity, why it matters to our mission, and how we try to live it through our language, our governance, and our work. If you’ve ever felt left out by systems built for a narrow “normal,” this is the part of our work that names that harm and points toward alternatives.
Equity is about shifting who gets heard, who gets supported, and who gets to design the world — not because they fit some ideal, but because their experience matters.
Why Equity Matters to Stimpunks
Most systems are built around assumed norms — whether in education, employment, design, or social expectations. For many disabled and neurodivergent people, these norms erase difference and punish variation.
Equity means:
- challenging systems that normalize only some bodies and minds
- centering those closest to harm in decision-making
- redistributing access and support so that no one is left to survive alone
Our equity work is ongoing, imperfect, and open to scrutiny. We believe transparency and accountability are part of equity.
What You’ll Find Here
- key principles that guide our equity practice
- how equity shapes our governance and policies
- how we think about power, privilege, and access
- commitments that we use to check our own behavior
Equity isn’t an outcome you reach — it’s a horizon you move toward together.
- Equity is infrastructure. It’s not optional — it’s how we build worlds that work for all minds.
- Equity is lived experience informing design, policy, and community.
- Equity: meet real needs, redistribute power, undo harm.
These links to our glossary are how we define diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
DEI-AB
Here is some of our writing on equity:
- Defining Equity and Inequity – Stimpunks Foundation
- Shiny Thing Equity Arithmetic – Stimpunks Foundation
- Equity Literacy: Learning to Be a Threat to Inequity in Our Spheres of Influence – Stimpunks Foundation
- Changelog: Equity is not compatible with deficit ideology because the function of deficit ideology is to obscure the actual causes of disparities. – Stimpunks Foundation
Our Covenant has our contributor covenant and our code of conduct. Our Creed lists our equity commitments.
