Category: DEI-AB
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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…
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Free The Stim: Exploring Stimming For Physically Disabled People
In this blog I aim to explore the barriers to stimming for physically disabled people and why the limitations of our bodies should not inhibit our expression.
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Call for Submissions: Share your experiences of being monotropic.
The Map of Monotropic Experiences has its own home now: monotropicmap.org — Helen Edgar’s map, with a page for each of its twenty places and the full training, free to read. Open Invite: Share your experiences of being monotropic. Share poems, art, blogs, essays, videos, podcasts, music, etc. that reflect your experience of being monotropic.…
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DEI-AB and Their Adversaries
What are diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging? What are their narrative adversaries? We provide a glossary of terms below. Follow the links for deeply sourced reference materials.
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Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for December 2024
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 381 terms in English and 416 terms across all languages. We added 3 new terms in the past month.
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Classroom Conflicts: An Autistic Student’s Classroom Challenges
For autistic students, whose sensory sensitivities, communication styles, and learning requirements differ from those of their neurotypical peers, the mainstream classroom can be an overwhelming environment. Many educators often lack the awareness, sensitivity or training required to identify and support autistic students effectively.
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Next Steps as a Community of Resistance
We have a lot of work to do in the USA (and everywhere) to combat what’s coming. Care systems will be attacked. We must build a counterculture of care. Care work makes all other work possible. Here are some next steps for our community at Stimpunks.
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Stories and Myth: Countering Structural Myths with a Progressive Storytelling Ecosystem
People understand the world in stories. Progressives need to tell better stories and hammer those stories repeatedly. We need to defuse resentment. We need consistent and convincing story and myth scalable from a sound bite to textured storytelling.
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No one is coming to save us. Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.
What should we do to survive the current state of the world? “Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.” We have work to do. We will support each other. We will build our own ecologies of care and our own competency networks. We will build communities and network rhizomatically.
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Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for October 2024
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 370 terms in English and 405 terms across all languages. We added 6 new terms in the past month.