Category: DEI-AB
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Om Malik: We Wouldn’t Be Here Without Him
Without my recently departed friend Om Malik, WordPress arguably wouldn’t still exist. Automattic, the company I helped start to support WordPress, wouldn’t exist. Stimpunks probably wouldn’t exist. I sold part of Automattic to fund Stimpunks. We certainly wouldn’t have been able to pay staff all these years without Om. My high-support needs family would be…
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Monitor Power, Not People
It’s hard for me to celebrate July 4th given the fascist descent the United States of America is hurtling down. Care systems are being dismantled. Life is increasingly perilous for neurodivergent, Disabled, and queer people in this country. Cruelty is the point. Yet, I am reluctant to let bigots define the day and carry the…
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Ariana Grande, Brighter Days Ahead, Stimpunks, and the Future of Philanthropy
Ariana Grande and the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation are supporting Stimpunks. The Brighter Days Ahead Foundation works to strengthen vulnerable communities by providing direct support to small organisations, prioritising trans and LGBTQ+ advocacy and protection. The foundation directly funds small, grassroots organisations doing care work for communities the world too often treats as disposable. We…
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My pride’s a riot, it’s not a parade.
My pride’s a riot, not a parade. This Autistic Pride Day arrives ornery. The right to live in community is being dismantled on every front at once — behaviorism rebranded as care, eugenics said out loud, the institution waiting at the end of every cut. Neuronormative domination is the key problem of our time, and…
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Why Sheets: Pushing back on the status quo, so you don’t have to do it alone.
Families are asked to justify what should be obvious. Why Sheets make the case for you — free, editable, open-licensed, and ready for the room.
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Community Living Is Being Dismantled on Every Front at Once
The right of disabled people to live in our own communities is being taken apart. Not in one place, and not by one ruling. On both sides of the Atlantic — through courts, through budgets, through quiet rule changes that never make the news — the systems that let disabled people stay in our homes…
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Celebrating Pride Month with Lilypad Library
Libraries are where you go to find yourself in the record. Proof you existed. Proof you weren’t the first.
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Write a Neurodivergent Collaboration Manual
Much collaboration fails before it starts. Not because people don’t care. Not because the work isn’t good. Because the default assumption built into most working environments is that everyone processes, communicates, and participates the same way. That assumption is wrong, and neurodivergent people pay the highest price for it. A collaboration manual is one way…
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Aspire To Be Autonomous: How The Principles of The Neurodiversity Movement Can Empower Neurodivergent and Disabled People
Key terms: Neurodiversity – a fact that there is a diversity of human brains and minds Neurodiversity paradigm – a specific framework stemming from neurodiversity being a natural form of diversity (like biodiversity) and that a ‘healthy’ or ‘normal’ is a social construct. It is a revolutionary way of thinking about being human because it…
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Academic Citations of Stimpunks
A search for “Stimpunks” on Google Scholar yields 65 results. We’ve been cited pretty broadly. It’s always interesting to see where our work ends up. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=stimpunks&btnG= Congrats Stimpunks community. Our messages are getting out there. As we state for our “Open Research” pillar: We improve the scientific experience for the disabled and the neurodivergent by…
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We have a chapter in “Sensory Spaces: An A-Z of Immersive and Creative Environments to Support Sensory Integration”
Our Co-Creative Directors Helen Edgar and Ryan Boren have a chapter on “Cavendish Space” in the book “Sensory Spaces: An A-Z of Immersive and Creative Environments to Support Sensory Integration”, available now from Routledge. Sensory spaces invite learners to be curious and try new ideas and skills, inspiring imaginative play, creativity and storytelling. This comprehensive…
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Grief, Climate Crisis, Earth Grief, and Neurodivergence By Peyton Belunek
I was on my daily walk this morning, early to avoid the heat of the day and the roar of lawnmowers and the rumble and cacophony of the trash truck. Per usual, I was adorned with my noise canceling headphones with an audiobook keeping me gentle company. Frances Weller’s words in his esteemed work The…