We serve neurodivergent and disabled people and our allies with passion-driven programming organized by our learners. We do concerts, lunch & learns, field trips, art shows, art lessons, dance lessons, cooking lessons, adulting lessons, meetups, marketplaces, and more. We pursue experiential learning and practice collaboration and iteration while doing work that impacts community. And, also, having fun.
But how we gather matters as much as what we do.
Most events aren’t built for us. Standard formats — loud rooms, back-to-back sessions, forced real-time participation — are designed for a particular kind of bodymind and exclude everyone else by assumption. We don’t replicate those defaults. We come from the DIY punk tradition and the neurodivergent internet tradition: if the existing infrastructure won’t hold us, we build new infrastructure.
Every Stimpunks event is an attempt to build Cavendish Space: psychologically and sensory safe environments where neurodivergent and disabled people can show up whole. Caves for quiet reflection. Campfires for learning together. Watering holes for peer connection. Async and written communication alongside spoken. Interaction badges. Safe foods. Somewhere to sit down and recover. These aren’t accommodations bolted onto a standard format — they are the format.
Our learners help put on our events, climbing learning curves as we go.
Read more about how and why we gather the way we do in Our Events Philosophy.
Recurring Events: The steady pulse beneath everything we do.
Our recurring events are the heartbeat of Stimpunks: weekly, consistent, and always here.
Solidarity Sesh: The radical act of showing up for each other.
Solidarity Sesh is a peer-run weekly gathering rooted in mutual aid and shared experience. Every Saturday morning, neurodivergent and disabled people come together to share life and stories — not as patients, but as peers. Autistic-led and community-centered, Solidarity Sesh taps the radical roots of peer support: self-determination, care outside of systems, and the simple, powerful act of being witnessed by someone who gets it. Saturdays, 10AM Central.
Infodumplings: Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole
Infodumplings is a weekly community gathering space where neurodivergent and disabled people bring their muchness — their special interests, their deep dives, their rabbit holes — and share them with people who actually want to hear it. Thursdays, 7PM Central.
Campfire Learn Together: Expert lecturers. Community wisdom. Zero hierarchy.
Campfire Learn Together is our weekly Sunday gathering where we watch, move, think, and talk together. We screen a lecture from thinkers like Alfie Kohn, take a bodymind break, and then dig into the ideas as a community. No hierarchy. No one-way transmission. Just omnidirectional learning in a real Cavendish Space campfire. Sundays, 10 AM Central.
Join our community to access our recurring events.
Recurring Meetings
Our weekly team meetings are open to everyone in the Stimpunks Discord community. We default to open.
🛠️ Operations Meeting
Every Tuesday · 10:00–11:00 AM CT
Where we run the thing.
The Operations meeting is where the work of keeping Stimpunks running gets done. Each week we hold a task scrub — triage, prioritize, and move work forward together. If you want to understand how the organization operates or get involved in the doing, this is the meeting for you.
✏️ Editorial Meeting
Every Thursday · 10:00–11:00 AM CT
Words, design, and everything we put into the world.
The Editorial meeting is where we work on the Stimpunks website and print materials — writing, editing, and designing for publication. Whether you’re a writer, editor, designer, or someone who just cares deeply about how we communicate, join us.
All meetings are open to Stimpunks Discord community members. Join the Discord to get meeting links and stay connected with the community.
About Our Events
Stimpunks Learning Space offers community and space for passion-based, human-centered learning with purpose. Our learners collaborate on distributed, multi-age, cross-disciplinary teams with a neurodiverse array of creatives doing work that impacts community. Via equity, access, empathy, and inclusivity, we create anti-ableist space compatible with neurodiversity, the social model of disability, and all types of bodyminds. We create space for the neurodivergent and disabled people most ill-served by “empty pedagogy, behaviorism, and the rejection of equity“.
We pursue programming driven by passion and purpose. A teenage Stimpunk helped us put on Metal Health Fest. He came up with the idea and collaborated with us and a live music event coordinator using our communication stack. He helped pick the lineup, design the posters, write the copy, deal with logistics and legalities, setup the speakers and soundboard, and keep people safe. He helped troubleshoot along the way, keeping the event on schedule and on budget. He learned collaboration while putting on a show that our community really enjoyed. To top it off, he earned service hours at school.
Check the page for our learning space for more. Our learners help put on our events, climbing learning curves as we go.
Visit our Events Field Guide for how we put on welcoming events.
Attending one of our events? How can we meet your needs? (survey)
Past Events
“Alright now, hootenanny time.”
Nina Simone – Go Limp (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York, 1964) – YouTube @1:34
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Campfire Learn Together: Solving the Frankenstein Problem
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Campfire Learn Together Recap: In Defense of Inefficiency
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Weird Pride Day 2026 — March 4
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Seeds of Cope: A Mental Health Hootenanny
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Celebrate Weird Pride Day 2025 with Stimpunks
December 17th, 2023: Jingle All Our Ways
January 29th, 2023: Metal Health Fest
Stimpunks Foundation and Vancerts hosted a Metal Health Fest in Austin, TX on January 29th, 2023 from 4:00 – 9:00PM. Get photos and details on the event page.
- Metal Health Fest: Let’s bolster against stress and pass down bodily survival knowledge.
- Jingle All Our Ways 2023: Benefit to Build Community
- Solidarity Session: The radical act of showing up for each other.
- Infodumplings: Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole
- Campfire Learn Together: Expert lecturers. Community wisdom. Zero hierarchy.
Our Communities
Local
We serve neurodivergent and disabled people local to us in Austin TX, Denver CO, New Orleans LA, and Ketchum ID with passion-driven programming driven by our learners. We do concerts, lunch & learns, field trips, art shows, marketplaces, and more.
Online
We serve a global online audience with our open research, podcast, courses, glossary, field guide, blog, and Guides to the NeurodiVerse.
Our Activities
Classes
Algiers Point Art Adventures
At Algiers Point Art Adventures in New Orleans, LA, Becky and Friends host a creative drawing and painting class for children ages around 6-7 in one class and around 8-10 in another. We explore ways to bring out children’s creativity as well as some drawing techniques. Classes are every Saturday at 10:30am starting June 3rd.
Events
Metal Health Fest
We pursue passion-driven programming driven by our learners. A teenage Stimpunk helped us put on Metal Health Fest. He came up with the idea and collaborated with us and a live music event coordinator using our communication stack. He helped pick the lineup, design the posters, write the copy, deal with logistics and legalities, setup the speakers and soundboard, and keep people safe. He helped troubleshoot along the way, keeping the event on schedule and on budget. He learned collaboration while putting on a show that our community really enjoyed. To top it off, he earned service hours at school.
The photos turned out great.
We also do lunch & learns, field trips, art shows, marketplaces, and more. We take care of the expenses and business logistics, providing a platform of support for our community of neurodivergent and disabled people. Visit our Events page for more.
