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StimpunksStimpunk combines “stimming” + “punk” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to neurotypicalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent communities. Instead of hiding our stims, we… More is a 501(c)3 organization and your donation is tax deductible. You will be emailed an IRS compliant letter at the time of donation and a year-end-summary of your donations at the end of the year. Keep these letters for filing your taxes.

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Natalie Furdek

May 13, 2023

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$103.30

Scotty Scott

May 12, 2023

This is for Chelsea and Ryan! I had the privilegeTo not have conversations because they make you uncomfortable is the definition of privilege. Your comfort is not at the center of this discussion.Brené Brown Power can be understood as… More of meeting them last night while waiting in line for The Bobby … Read more

This is for Chelsea and Ryan! I had the privilege of meeting them last night while waiting in line for The Bobby Lees show at The Mohawk, and they told me about this wonderful organization.

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$103.30

Chloe Kirkpatrick

April 14, 2023

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$26.06

Anonymous

April 5, 2023

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$103.30

James Huff

April 4, 2023

Donation Form Amount Donated

$103.30

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Jen Rohrig

January 2, 2023

Donation Form Amount Donated

$26.06

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Bill Hunt

November 29, 2022

Donation Form Amount Donated

$103.30

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Chris McNutt

Human Restoration Project

November 29, 2022

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$51.80

Aaron Douglas

September 24, 2022

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Anonymous

September 10, 2022

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$55.00

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May 23, 2022

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Rudy Klecka

May 11, 2022

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✔️ We Can All Do Something Good

Every right now
Is the next chorus
And everyday is a bright new day

Every right now
Is the next chorus
And we can all do something good

--Ronan Boren of Stimpunks and Josephmooon

Do you know why we have the sunflowers? It’s not because Vincent van Gogh suffered. It’s because Vincent van Gogh had a brother who loved him. Through all the pain, he had a tether, a connection to the world. And that is the focus of the story we need. Connection.

Hannah Gadsby: Nanette

Give: Us to You

If you need aid, financial or otherwise, visit our “Request Aid” page. We pay neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”NEURODIVERSITY: SOME BASIC TERMS & DEFINITIONS Neurodivergent is quite… More and disabled people. We pay us to work. We pay us to live. We pay writers to write, artists to make artThe arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly,… More, advocates to advocate, and researchers to research. We pay rent. We pay medical bills. We buy medical equipment. We support the neurodiversityNeurodiversity is the diversity of human minds, the infinite variation in neurocognitive functioning within our species.NEURODIVERSITY: SOME BASIC TERMS & DEFINITIONS Neurodiversity is a biological fact. It’s not a perspective, an approach, a… More and disability communities that supported us on our journey. We serve our loved people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.

Let’s connect.

🫀🧠 Keep On Livin’

Look up to the sky, sky, sky
Take back your own tonight
You'll find more than you see
It's time now, now, get ready

This is your time, this is your life and
This is your time, this is your life and
This is your time, this is your life and
This is your time, this is your life and

You gotta keep on (Keep on livin!)
Gotta keep on (Keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on (Keep on livin!)
Gotta keep on (Keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on (Keep on livin!)
Gotta keep on (Keep on livin!)
You gotta keep on (Keep on livin!)
Gotta keep on (Keep on livin!)

-- Keep On Livin'

🤲 Volunteer: Load-share the Friction of Our Existence

We exist as friction, and it’s exhausting. Allies, load-share our burden of existing as friction against structural ableism. “Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society.” Share some of that work and friction. We need respite from this wildly painful work.

• Reframe yourself and others. This is hard and important work necessary to all other work. Change the narrativeWhen we successfully reframe public discourse, we change the way the public sees the world. We change what counts as common sense. Because language activates frames, new language is required… More.
• Advocate for accessibility at school, work, and in your community.
• Be a threat to inequity in your spheres of influence.
• Combat the myths.
• Use and promote Identity First Language.
• Elevate care as infrastructure. Stimpunks exists because our systems effectively don’t.
• Celebrate our interdependenceInterdependence acknowledges that our survival is bound up together, that we are interconnected and what you do impacts others. If this pandemic has done nothing else, it has illuminated how… More!

❤️Interdependence and Care

Putting care—not just care work, but care—at the center of our economy, our politics, is to orient ourselves around our interdependence.

Care is an organizational structure needed to keep our nation running. It’s, by definition, infrastructure.

Care work makes all other work possible.

Health is at the center of the human experience.

We need a counterculture of care.

I feel that that the fundamental property of humanness is to fill those spaces where humanity has been abandoned with love. Those who would change the system have to begin with love, and with the vision to build geographies of care built from that love.

Interdependence acknowledges that our survival is bound up together, that we are interconnected and what you do impacts others. Interdependence is the only way out of most of the most pressing issues we face today. If we do not understand that we are interdependent with the planet we as a species will not survive.

It is time to celebrate our interdependence! Collaboration allows us to create genuinely safe spaces.

Reframing is self-care and social change.

🙏 All Together Now

Less talk, more action y'all, it's what the
children need
Less talk, more action y'all, big mood I have a
dream
(Big Mood)
Less talk, more action y'all, no matter where
you from
Less talk about improvement,
We are the motivation,
We are the movement

Go to work
Go to work
Giddy up
Go to work

It's time for us as a people to mobilize,
organize, plot, plan and strategize
No matter what your race, creed, color, or
religion
It's not enough
To say we're gonna change
It's not enough
We need real changes
It's not enough
To say we're gonna change
It's not enough
We need real changes
Can you hear me
(Yes we can)
Can you feel me
(I Feel You Man)
Can you hear me
(Yes we can)
Can you feel me
(I Feel You Man)

—Go To Work by The Main Squeeze

Can I scream?

When the day is over the doors are locked on us
'Cause money buys the access and we can't pay the cost
How can we expect anyone to listen
If we are using the same old voice?
We need new noise
New art for the real people!

We dance to all the wrong songs
We enjoy all the wrong moves
We dance to all the wrong songs
We're not leading
We dance to all the wrong songs
We enjoy all the wrong moves
We dance to all the wrong songs
We're not, we're not, we're not, we're not, we're not
We're not...
Leading

We're not leading!

--New Noise by Refused

😭🔌 Turn the Pain into Power

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