Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society.
DISABILITY VISIBILITY: FIRST PERSON STORIES FROM THE 21ST CENTURY
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Our Mission
We exist for the direct support and mutual aid of neurodivergent and disabled people.
We, Stimpunks
Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, creator grants, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community. We presume competence, and we believe in self-determination.
We, Stimpunks
Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabled person in an ableist society. We provide real help against the onslaught. We believe that direct support to individuals is the most effective approach to alleviating the barriers and challenges that prevent neurodivergent and disabled people from thriving.
We, Stimpunks
Stimpunks 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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✔️ We Can All Do Something Good
I think we need a rebellion of what I call the “caring class,” people who care about others and justice.
DAVID GRAEBER VIA THE BEAUTY OF COLLABORATION AT HUMAN SCALE
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
Create more anti-ableist spaces.
Let’s act to hold ALL spaces accountable for providing care and access to disabled folks with all types of bodies and minds.
JEN WHITE-JOHNSON
We can start building more accessible, care-centered communities now. We can combat ableism now. We can lay the groundwork for a world that works better for all of us.
DR. SAMI SCHALK ON TWITTER
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
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Asking for help is a wonderful way to build community & engage in meaningful collaboration. In asking for help you also uplift others who want to show up for you.
Just a reminder that asking for help is a contribution
If you need aid, financial or otherwise, visit our “Request Aid” page. We pay neurodivergent and disabled people. We pay us to work. We pay us to live. We pay writers to write, artists to make art, advocates to advocate, and researchers to research. We pay rent. We pay medical bills. We buy medical equipment. We support the neurodiversity 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’
I would like to honour all the autistic people who survive the care system somehow.
Ann Memmott PGC🌈 on Twitter
All those who survive extreme ‘therapy’.
All those who are brought to their knees, reading hellish descriptions of their loved people.
And all who did not survive this onslaught.
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. The work that I do; it’s wildly painful.
Changing the Disability Design Narrative – UX CakE
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 narrative.
- 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 interdependence!
❤️ Interdependence and Care
The notion of disability in our society is underscored by a bizarre conception of “independence”.
The Myth of Independence: How The Social Model of Disability Exposes Society’s Double Standards » NeuroClastic
It is time to celebrate our interdependence!
- 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
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