Category: Events
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Campfire Learn Together: Lines of Flight in the Classroom
For our May 31 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Ian Buchanan’s “Lines of Flight in the Classroom” — a lecture applying Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of lines of flight to the classroom as a social assemblage.
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Infodumplings: Celebrating Libraries with Lilypad Library
This week on Infodumplings, we’re celebrating libraries — what they are, what they mean, what they’ve been for us — and we’re doing it alongside Lilypad Library, a neurodivergent-created children’s show that Stimpunks is proud to fiscally sponsor. We’ll watch a Lilypad Library episode together. Then we’ll infodump: your library stories, your formative reads, your…
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Campfire Learn Together: The Double Empathy Problem
For our May 24 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing the Keynote by Dr. Damian Milton, delivered at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2026 annual meeting: “Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Current Empirical Evidence Relating to the Double Empathy Problem.”
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Infodumplings: Everyday Carry for Mortal Coils
Disabled people are the original life hackers. We EDC (Everyday Carry) to survive. Join us to share the contents of your pockets and your bags. Share what you carry to cope, survive, and thrive.
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Campfire Learn Together: Therapy Is Not Neutral
For our May 17 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing “Therapy Is Not Neutral with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, facilitated by Iya Affo”. Therapy is not neutral. Our community can attest to that. Pretending it is neutral covers up harm.
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Infodumplings: Thomas Dambo and the Giants That Grow from What We Threw Away
We’re gathering for an Infodump on the troll art of Danish artist Thomas Dambo — on recycling, upcycling, biodiversity, and the integration of made things into the living world. On what it means to bricolage not just a sculpture but an argument. On the radical claim, embedded in every one of his giants, that the…
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Campfire Learn Together: What Makes Life Worth Wondering
For this Campfire Learn Together, we are watching philosopher Helen De Cruz talk with Robert Lawrence Kuhn about her book Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think — and thinking together about what wonder has to do with how we learn, how we survive, and why we’re here.
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Infodumplings: Kintsugi and Finding the Gold Within You
For the next edition of Infodumplings: Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole, our curator is sharing on kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer, treating every fracture as part of the vessel’s history rather than a flaw to erase. The more it has broken and been repaired,…
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Campfire Learn Together: Being Disabled Can Be Pretty Funny
For this Campfire Learn Together, we are watching stand-up comedy by two disabled comedians — Josh Blue and Tina Friml — and talked about what their work reveals about disability, identity, and the world.
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Campfire Learn Together: “How to (Anti) AI Better” by Dr. Fatima
For the Campfire Learn Together on April 26, 2026, we watched and discussed “How to (Anti) AI Better” by Dr. Fatima. Dr. Fatima’s thesis: shaming individual AI users is counterproductive. The more effective path is harm reduction — meeting people where they are, reducing specific harms, and directing pressure toward systems rather than individuals. This…
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Infodumplings: Interstitial Journaling and Star Stuff
For the April 23rd edition of Infodumplings: Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole: Journaling Reflection Questions Opening Bullet Journaling Junk Journaling Interstitial Journaling The Mix Star Stuff Reflection Questions The star stuff framing does a lot of work because it positions the writer as ancient, cosmic, made of real matter. Some writing or speaking…
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Campfire Learn Together: Solving the Frankenstein Problem
For our weekly Campfire Learn Together, we watched “Keynote: Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang | Solving the Frankenstein Problem: Why all learning is social, emotional, cultural and cognitive to the brain”.