Category: Punk
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Punk Is Autistic
The culture of punk is, at its core, authenticity without apology—and that’s exactly what autistic people desire: spaces and cultures where they can be their true selves without the need to mask or conform.
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Gather ‘Round Creeps: Happy Halloween from the Black Leather Lagoon
Ask your parents how to make a monster. Death, divergence, and whimsy. Enjoy this punky Halloween playlist full of weird pride.
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Design Challenge: Neurodiversity Punk Hedgehog Mascot Inspired by Wapuu
Community artists, let’s make some Neurodiversity Hedgehog Mascots Inspired by Wapuu.
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A Vivifying Overlap: This Is What Trans Punk Looks Like
To be a queer person is inherently a very punk thing. I think to be a punk person is also inherently a queer thing. There’s a lot of really vivifying overlap there between those two things for me. Lorne, THIS IS WHAT TRANS PUNK LOOKS LIKE (full documentary) – YouTube This documentary opens with insightful…
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Community: The Story of East Bay Punk
I love punk documentaries. Community comes together to build inclusive spaces. Community rebounds after losing spaces. Community fights off skinheads with bats and pipes to keep spaces safe. Community learns how to DIY together. Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history…
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We Rebuild What You Destroy: A Celebration of The Linda Lindas and Punk DIY Ethos
We were really angry, and we decided to write a song about it.
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No Competition of Hierarchies Should Prevail: Identity Politics, Strategic Essentialism, Rhizomes, Punk, and Oppression Olympics
Identity politics can be employed to simultaneously uplift marginalised members of society and deconstruct the mechanisms of their marginalisation. Spider-Verse, Identity Politics, Leftist Infighting, and the Oppression Olympics – YouTube Identity politics can be one tool we use to override our discomfort with others and instead draw together into coalition. We should use it as…
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Wendell & Wild: An Indictment of the School-to-Prison Pipeline with a Banging Black Punk Soundtrack
“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. The official playlist is full of Black and Queer Punk. It’s a banger. Spoiler Alert: The following pullquote is revealed later in the movie and is spoiler-ish. We make…
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Stimpunks and Vancerts Presents: The Bobby Lees and Forty Feet Tall
The music of The Bobby Lees resonates with my neurodivergent life and neurology. I love this band so much. When Stimpunks got the chance to help secure a venue for them during SxSW, we jumped at it. Thanks, Vancerts, for including us. Thanks, Cryptic Creative, for the connection. Friday, March 18, 1-5PM Halcyon Coffee, Bar,…
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Chronic Neurodivergent Depressed Queer Punk: Punk Rock, the Social Model of Disability, and the Dream of the Accepting Community
Everything that was normally supposed to be hidden was brought to the front. Punk subculture – Wikipedia The lyrics referred to the way many people viewed fans of punk rock (who often endured stares, slurs and assaults at the time), but they could just have easily been about people diagnosed with mental illnesses, who are frequently looked…
