We pay
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.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More creators and amplify them to our clients and throughout society.
We offer financial and mutual aid. 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.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More people to work and live. We pay expenses like rent and medical bills as well as buy medical equipment or other necessities. We hire our community members as consultants. Client services are how we live our mission to employ neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More people as well as how we raise capital for grantmaking.
We exist
We exist for the direct support and mutual aid of neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More people.
Stimpunks Foundation challenges the typical approach to helping people who are neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More or disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More. We know what it is like to live with barriers and what it means to not fit in and have to forge our own community. Stimpunks knows that neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More people have human needs. We offer a humane approach to help our community thrive.
We believe
We believe that direct support to individuals is the most effective approach to alleviating the barriers and challenges that prevent neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More people from thriving in neurotypical and ableist environments.
Unlike most foundations, we support organizations and individuals directly, maximizing our impact in neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More people’s lives and communities.
We create
We create anti-ableist space for passion-based, human-centered learning compatible with 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 the social model of disability.
We create learning space designed for our community. We create space for those most ill-served by “empty pedagogy, behaviorism, and the rejection of equity“. We create paths to equity and access for our learners so they can collaborate on distributed, multi-age, cross-disciplinary teams with a neurodiverse array of creatives doing work that impacts community.
We serve
We serve our loved people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.
Staying alive is a lot of work for a disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More person in an ableist society…
Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century
Please stay alive Please stay alive Please stay alive Please survive Please survive -- Old Friend (Stay Alive)
Through Stimpunks Foundation, we:
- Offer financial and mutual aid;
- Hire our community members as consultants;
- Provide a learning space designed for our community; and
- Support our community’s open research efforts.
One in seven people has a disability. However, our community receives only 2% of US grant funding and makes up only 18% of the US workforce. We can’t just let that be the truth. We have to challenge the norm and change the narrative around people who are neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More or disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More so we can be our real selves and keep on livin’.

Keep on Livin’
We would like to honor all the neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More people who survive the care system, somehow.
And all who did not survive this onslaught.

Let Us Be Our Real Selves
Let us be our real selves, loud and proud, and show the world what we truly are.

Creed
I center the marginalized and the different. I center edge cases, because edge cases are stress cases and design is tested at the edges. I center neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More experience in service to all bodymindsBodymind: A term used to challenge the idea the body and mind are experienced separately (Descartes). Written in various ways, Bodymind or Body-mind, this usage foregrounds the understanding that experiences... More.

Philosophy
We steer by these acquired phrases. They are compasses and stars that align us on our mission.

Stop, Hammer Time
“It’s not Science vs Philosophy … It’s Science + Philosophy. When you measure include the measurer.” –MC Hammer

Code of Conduct
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
Disability justice (and disability itself) has the potential to fundamentally transform everything we think about quality of life, purpose, work, relationships, belonging.
DISABILITY VISIBILITY: FIRST-PERSON STORIES FROM THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- Keep on Livin’
- Let Us Be Our Real Selves
- Be Good, Be Loud
- Creed
- Philosophy
- ∞ Design is tested at the edges.
- ∞
- ⛑
- 🫀🧠🌈 Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason.
- 🦼
- 🌈
- 📚⚖️ The right to learn differently should be a universal human right that’s not mediated by diagnosis.
- 📚
- 📖
- 🛏 We urgently need a society that’s better at letting people get the rest they need.
- 🔨 Stop, Hammer Time: When you measure include the measurer.
- = There is no path to equity that does not involve a direct confrontation with inequity.
- =
- 🦄🦓🌈♿️
- 🫶 It is time to celebrate our interdependence!
- 🧷
- ❤️
- 👏 Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance.
- 🤝
- ⚖️
- ⏳ Dreams are met, bridges are built -timelines changed.
- 🩸 We exist as friction.
- 🩸
- 👩👩👧👦
- Nothing About Us Without Us
- 🪢 Embracing pluralism is good citizenship.
- 🪢
- 🤲
- 🔌 Name the systems of power.
- 😢
- 🔌
- 🏩 What if love said: Hear me out a bit before the future comes around.
- As If We Existed
- Code of Conduct
Keep on Livin’
We serve our loved people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.
I would like to honour all the autistic people who survive the care system somehow.
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.
Ann Memmott PGC🌈 on Twitter
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'
A safe place to rest and rebuild in between moments of stress is essential for autonomic nervous system balance.
THE VAGUS NERVE & CHRONIC ILLNESS — TRAUMA GEEK
Wear it out (The way a three-year-old would do) Melt it down (You're gonna have to eventually anyway) The fire trucks are comin' up around the bend
You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn
You grieve, you learn You choke, you learn You laugh, you learn You choose, you learn You pray, you learn You ask, you learn You live, you learn
-- You Learn
We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other.
The Next American Revolution:
Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century.
Dive in, don't you roll over Don’t you promise your lungs to the fights Starving, hardly knew Mozart Don't you know he was never quite right He used to see craters, in her head He used to be darling and cheap But no one believed him When he said he lost his strength I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images and cling The notion of some infinitely gentle Infinitely suffering thing Zombie eyes are promising Crooked teeth are sweet Don't leave me gravity Don’t leave me gravity
He used to see craters, in her head He used to be darling and cheap But no one believed him When he said he lost his strength I always believed him When he said he couldn't find his feet I always believed him When he said it didn't feel complete I always believed I always believed Breathe Breathe I always believed him 'til he made it back to our beat
-- Don’t Leave Me Gravity, Skating Polly
Peer-run warm lines – staffed by people who have lived mental health experience – have been shown to reduce loneliness and participants’ use of mental health crisis services. Additionally, a review of several studies found that digital forms of peer support improve the lives of people with serious mental illness by “enhancing participants’ functioning, reducing symptoms and improving program utilization.”
WARM LINE GIVES PEER MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT – NC HEALTH NEWS
I watch you dancin' and I watch you cry I watch you look up and Scream out why Oh now my dear you got So much to give I heard them talkin' and You're gonna live So hold me closer and Hold me tight A little closer till we're Into the night Cause you and I we've got So much to give I heard them talkin' and We're gonna live That's right It's alright — Last Song, The Bobby Lees
What if I say to you it's alright, we're alright And if you say you need me too, I'll be up all night, It's alright The shadows only last 'til sunrise, it's alright, you'll be alright 'Cause you were born in the sunlight, in the sunlight and it's very bright (Hey) Can you feel it, waking with the morning sun What feeling, we're living in the morning sun
Sometimes all you need is darkness to see the light, we'll see the light We get high in the sunshine and the moon light and it's alright (Hey) Can you feel it waking with the morning sun What feeling were living with the morning sun (Yeah) Ah ah ah ah ah ah Flower in the sun (Ohhh no no) Ah ah ah ah ah ah Flower in the sun (Ha ah hah) Ah ah ah ah ah ah (Yea yea yea yeah) Flower in the sun (Flower in the sunshine) Ah ah ah ah ah ah (shine on me) Flower in the sun (Come come come come come come on let it shine) Ah ah ah ah ah ah (Yeah, yea yea yea yea) Flower in the sun Ah ah ah ah ah ah Flower in the sun Ah ah ah ah ah ah (Whoa oh oh oh) Flower in the sun --Flower Song by New Sol
of all the sounds i’ve ever heard
death is the loudest
i wandered, lost: poems
Let Us Be Our Real Selves
There is room for all of us to play our part. And whatever we do, however we do it, we can do it with ‘loud hands’ and ‘loud voices,’ and loud whatever else we need, in whatever way that works for us individually or collectively. Let us be our real autistic selves, loud and proud, and show the world what we truly are.
Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking (p. 125). Autistic Self Advocacy Network

True colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow

She is our miscreant She is our detox She is our dagger in the dark She is the knot mess She is the undressed She is the boy borne in my heart While you sit on the fence I will burn in hell
Autistic and queer folks share some dark history—and some bad actors. Chapter 7 of NeuroTribes, Fighting the Monster, shares the legacy of Ole Ivar Lovaas, the twisted father of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and conversion therapy. He applied his abusive, torturous techniques to autistic kids and “sissy boys” to make them “indistinguishable from their peers”. He had little regard for their humanity—they were engineering projects.
Neurodiversity and Gender Non-conformity, Dysphoria and Fluidity
I’ve experienced several moments of burnout in my life and career. Being something that I neurologically am not is exhausting. Wearing the mask of neurotypicality drains my batteries and melts my spoons. For a long time, for decades, I didn’t fully understand what was going on with me. I didn’t understand the root causes of my cycles of burnout. Finding the Actually Autistic community online woke me to the concept of autistic burnout. When I found the community writing excerpted below, I finally understood an important part of myself. Looking back on my life, I recognized those periods when coping mechanisms had stopped working and crumbled. I recognized my phases and changes as continuous fluid adaptation.
Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing
Be Good, Be Loud
This isn’t just a story that disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More children will love; it’s a story about what is possible when we fight for ourselves and each other. It is a story about how tenacity, strength, the power of community, and the willingness to fight for what matters can start a revolution.
ROLLING WARRIOR: THE INCREDIBLE, SOMETIMES AWKWARD, TRUE STORY OF A REBEL GIRL ON WHEELS WHO HELPED SPARK A REVOLUTION
In time the fever that's kept you weak Will have full on taken its toll It's taken away and it's taken its shape In the illusion that you still hold Nothing's okay Nothing has changed and it's all too familiar So we curl up and hide from all that's outside Closed shades and locked up doors It's true, it's loud, it's hard and it’s all I know I can't take anymore I just want out right now
I had assumed I would have been gone by now But the ship has weathered the storm And the feeling of defeat That lies underneath is still alive and on its course I'm destroyed, weak I have nothing but to speak of the truth as I see fit I have nothing to lose, I have nothing to gain I'm at the whim of what I've retained Be good, be loud Hands up to the sky and shout At the top of your lungs 'til the floor falls out --Be Good by Off with Their Heads

I wanna see a feisty group of disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More people around the world…if you don’t respect yourself and if you don’t demand what you believe in for yourself, you’re not gonna get it.
Judith Heumann
On “Haitian Fight Song”, Mingus said “It has a folk spirit, the kind of folk music I’ve always heard anyway. My solo in it it’s a deeply concentrated one. I can’t play it right unless I’m thinking about prejudice and persecution, and how unfair is it. There’s sadness and cries in it, but also determination. And it usually ends with my feeling ‘I told them! I hope somebody heard me!’“.
Wiki – Haitian Fight Song — Charles Mingus
One more, one more, one more, one more I got one more song I must sing Ting-a-ling Freedom ring I got one more song I must sing Simple song, so sing along One more, one more, one more, one more
All we got One more life to live One more love to give One more cliff to climb One more It's my time --One More by Jimmy Cliff
I have loud hands. I must, since I use my hands to communicate. I type what I want to say. But that’s not the only reason why I have loud hands. It is because I finally learned that I cannot be silenced, I will not be silenced.
Loud Hands: I Speak Up With My Fingers
Be Good, Be Loud
Creed
I know
I know that pluralism is our reality. I know that 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 is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation, and that Neurodiversity friendly forms of collaboration hold the potential to transform pathologically competitive and toxic teams and cultures. I know Autistic forms of communication within a neurodiverse team and within a psychologically safe environment impart a collaborative advantage to the entire team. I know 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, the social model of disability, and intersectionality are urgently needed reframing necessary to equity and inclusion.
I reframe
I reframe out of the confines of the medical model and pathology paradigm and into the respectfully connected expanse of the biopsychosocial model and the Neurodiversity paradigm. I reframe from deficit ideology to structural ideology.
I center
I center the marginalized and the different. I center edge cases, because edge cases are stress cases and design is tested at the edges. I center neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More experience in service to all bodymindsBodymind: A term used to challenge the idea the body and mind are experienced separately (Descartes). Written in various ways, Bodymind or Body-mind, this usage foregrounds the understanding that experiences... More.
I will
I will never stop learning. I will communicate as much as possible because communication is oxygen to an organization. I will never pass up an opportunity to help out another Stimpunk. I will maintain learner safety and remember what it is like to be a new contributor. I will make other people feel equal and not alone. I will build with, not for. I will default to open. I will move carefully and fix things. I will make things that help people, and I will not make things that harm people. I will bake ethics into everything I do. I will be a threat to inequity in my spheres of influence.
Raise your hand if you’re not from a mold (yeah me) Varied strings are worth more than gold Mah-ah-ah-ah-ahl function away Mah-ah-ah-ah-ahl function away Malfunction! Malfunction! Malfunction! ... Their Malfunction isn’t us, it’s all the clamor and the fuss
I’m about to pick you up get you back up on your feet you don’t need to worry love Even if we’re incomplete Come on baby open up Pull out the wires and trim the fluff Be yourself sounds so cliche But hey let's do it anyway
-- Malfunction
Philosophy
We steer by the acquired phrases below. They are compasses and stars that align us on our mission.
∞ Design is tested at the edges.
James Baldwin…deserves flowers everyday, most of all, because he was willing to discuss things that were painful, hard to look at, hard to see, hard to accept.
Meshell Ndegeocello
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James Baldwin
🫀🧠🌈 Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason.
To me this particular composition contains Mr. Mingus’s personal and also a social message. He feels intensively. He tries to tell people he is in great pain and anguish because he loves. He cannot accept that he is alone, all by himself; he wants to love and be loved. His music is a call for acceptance, respect, love, understanding, fellowship, freedom — a plea to change the evil in man and to end hatred.
Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Liner Notes
📚⚖️ The right to learn differently should be a universal human right that’s not mediated by diagnosis.
People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder.
Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.
Laziness Does Not Exist: But unseen barriers do
Laziness does not exist.
When I went to your schools I went to your churches I went to your institutional learning facilities! --Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies
🛏 We urgently need a society that’s better at letting people get the rest they need.
Nothing in this culture wants us to have rest. Wants us to have ease. Wants us to have care. The softness was stolen. Our dreamspace has been stolen. Our space to just be has been stolen.
Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry.
🔨 Stop, Hammer Time: When you measure include the measurer.
It’s not Science vs Philosophy … It’s Science + Philosophy. When you measure include the measurer.
MC Hammer
I would insist on the embodied nature of all vision and so reclaim the sensory system that has been used to signify a leap out of the marked body and into a conquering gaze from nowhere. This is the gaze that mythically inscribes all the marked bodies, that makes the un-marked category claim the power to see and not be seen, to represent while escaping representation.
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
The interpretation of objectivity as neutral does not allow for participation or stances. This uninvolved, uninvested approach implies “a conquering gaze from nowhere” (Haraway 1988). In many ways, claims of objectivity allow one to “represent while escaping representation” (Haraway 1988) and mimics the construction of Whiteness2 in the racialization of marginalized peoples (Battey and Leyva 2016; Guess 2006). Indeed, there is extensive evidence suggesting that STEM cultural norms are traditionally White, masculine, heteronormative and able-bodied (Atchison and Libarkin 2016; Chambers 2017; Eisenhart and Finkel 1998; Johnson 2001; Nespor 1994; Seymour and Hewitt 1997; Traweek 1988). Thus, while purporting to be a neutral application of a generic protocol, science-and STEM more broadly-has a distinct set of cultures that governs legitimate membership and acceptable behaviors. The concept of a meritocracy is often used to justify who succeeds in STEM cultures. However, far from “leveling the playing field”, meritocracies exist in cultural systems that prioritize people who have, or to a lesser extent closely emulate, these traits. Success in science, then, tends to privilege cultural traits associated with the above identities and often marginalizes scientists who can not or will not perform these identities. This introduces structural inequities in the pursuit of science that align with social manifestations of racism, colonialism, sexism, homophobia and ableismA system that places value on people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normality, intelligence, excellence, desirability, and productivity. These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in anti-Blackness,... More (Cech and Pham 2017; Wilder 2014).
Defining the Flow—Using an Intersectional Scientific Methodology to Construct a VanguardSTEM Hyperspace
The failures of autism science are not random: they reflect systematic power imbalances.
Autism and Scientism
= There is no path to equity that does not involve a direct confrontation with inequity.
=
There is no path to equity that does not involve a direct confrontation with inequity.
Inequities are primarily power and privilege problems.
Equity requires the redistribution of material, cultural, and social access and opportunity.
You cannot counter structural inequality with good will. You have to structure equality.
We are all accountable to the urgent work of building a more just, more equitable world.
I wish you could know What it means to be me Can you see You’d agree Everybody Should be free (Because if we ain’t, we’re murderers) --I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free by Nina Simone
One of the most punk angst people in history is Nina Simone.
AFROPUNK: The Movie
She was neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More and did her best work as an activist completely unaware she was bipolar and suffering from PTSD. As such, the disability community should embrace her as a savant in the wider sphere of neurodivergentNeurodivergent, sometimes abbreviated as ND, means having a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from the dominant societal standards of “normal.”Neurodivergent is quite a broad term. Neurodivergence (the state of being... More people who demonstrate talent usually limited to the label autistic savant.
Nina Simone: Black Activist, Bipolar Savant | NOS Magazine
I sing from intelligence. I sing from letting them know that I know who they are and what they have done to my people around the world.
That’s not anger. Anger has its place. Anger has fire, and fire moves things, but I sing from intelligence. I don’t want them to think that I don’t know who they are.
Nina Simone on BBC HARDtalk, 1999
🫶 It is time to celebrate our interdependence!
🧷
Giving inclusion safety is a moral imperative.
All human beings have the same innate need: We long to belong.
Let's organize our lives around love and care Let's write each other letters and call it prayer Let's congregate in the place that isn't anywhere At the temple of broken dreams --Three New Songs by Ezra Furman
👏 Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance.
🤝
Everyday there's a sad a twist of fate And it's easy to think there's no way we can make it But I swear you and I can stay strong through the fight If we hold on long enough to face it Sure there's Purple haze in the sky And they say maybe we're running out of time But I don't care cuz you and I Know that love is all we need to survive If the world is on fire I don't care cuz you're down for the ride We'll survive We'll get by From now on til the end of times --Purple Haze by Joy Oladokun
⏳ Dreams are met, bridges are built -timelines changed.

Dreams are met, bridges are built -timelines changed.
All these realities become more true via each other, being ourselves; being that: we are the materials which become the embodiment of such.
*We Artistrian” was an utterance by A Badelle in pondering viewing a prior work titled “The Adorned Man.”

🩸 We exist as friction.
Nothing About Us Without Us
Strong content warning: Holocaust, genocide, ableismA system that places value on people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normality, intelligence, excellence, desirability, and productivity. These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in anti-Blackness,... More, eugenics, euthanasia
My kind were identified By twisted scientists Separate by neurology Focused ideology The ones of us most profound Sadly were oven bound It seems I would have been A super soldier unseen Nothing about us Without us any more Do not rewrite history On my account Nothing about us Without us any more Do not rewrite history On my account
I am not satisfied To be marginalised By ableist dictators Robots patronising me My condition was revealed By a creator I oppose Yet the source of my current chaos Are my allies allegedly Nothing about us Without us any more Do not rewrite history On my account Nothing about us Without us any more Do not rewrite history On my account --Nothing About Us Without Us by Tommy Concrete
More than two hundred thousand disabledThe label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself... More children and adults were murdered during the official phases of the child euthanasia and T-4 programs, and thousands more were killed in acts of “wild euthanasia” by doctors and nurses on their own initiative. Obviously, the notion of transporting hundreds of corpses on roads that had to be kept clear for military convoys was impractical. As clinics, hospitals, and schools throughout the Reich dedicated their resources to the programs, crematoria were built next to these institutions, with conveyor belts to transport the bodies from the Kinderfachabteilungen to the ovens. In some institutions, improvised furnaces on wheels were employed to dispose of the corpses.
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (p. 135)
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I first heard the expression “Nothing About Us Without Us” in South Africa in 1993. Michael Masutha and William Rowland, two leaders ofDisabled People South Africa, separately invoked the slo- gan, which they had heard used by someone from Eastern Europe at an international disability rights conference. The slogan’s power derives from its location of the source of many types of (disability) oppression and its simultaneous opposition to such oppression in the context of control and voice.
“Nothing About Us Without Us” resonates with the philosophy and history of the disability rights movement (DRM), a movement that has embarked on a belated mission parallel to other liberation movements. As Ed Roberts, one of the leading figures of the international DRM, has said, “If we have learned one thing from the civil rights movement in the U.S., it’s that when others speak for you, you lose” (Driedger 1989:28). In this sense, “Our Bodies, Ourselves” and “Power to the People” can be recognized as precedents for “Nothing About Us With- out Us.” The DRM’s demand for control is the essential theme that runs through all its work, regardless of political-economic or cultural differences. Control has universal appeal for DRM activists because the needs of people with disabilities and the potential for meeting these needs are everywhere conditioned by a dependency born of powerless- ness, poverty, degradation, and institutionalization. This dependency, saturated with paternalism, begins with the onset of disability and con- tinues until death. The condition of dependency is presently typical for hundreds of millions of people throughout the world.
NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
A motto of the self-advocacy movement is “Nothing About Us, Without Us!”. Lots of people talk about us without letting us talk. We should always be part of the conversation, and be in charge of our lives.
WELCOME TO THE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY
We should always be part of the conversation.
🪢 Embracing pluralism is good citizenship.
🔌 Name the systems of power.
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People suffer, and when they do, it’s for a reason.
Shame is not a weapon. Shame is toxic. It is the difference between “sorry I did” and “sorry I am.”
You wanna be somebody? See somebody? Try and free somebody --List of Demands by Saul Williams
🏩 What if love said: Hear me out a bit before the future comes around.
A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLETHEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
1979 IBM Presentation
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION
Like gods, these mathematical models were opaque, their workings invisible to all but the highest priests in their domain: mathematicians and computer scientists. Their verdicts, even when wrong or harmful, were beyond dispute or appeal. And they tended to punish the poor and the oppressed in our society, while making the rich richer.
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
What's the problem with my genius? Too attached to ever leave it Silent for the new achievement but What I long to witness is the equal shift Of lifted gadgetry to intuition by Genius giving up its selfish tact And bringing praise of spirit back (Hey) Pay respect upon the debt incurred By non-belief when soul was speaking Called simplistic by a name familiar to Those regulars who think intelligence a competition Missing opportunity to be a real show embarrassment The care is not The care is NOT spewing tools to ax the problem Rather asking have or how they aptly solve themselves
... What if love said: Hear me out a bit before the future comes around ... This isn't anger, no, it's passion so let's live the way we should As if we existed "As If We Existed" by Solillaquists of Sound
Code of Conduct
NeurodiVenture : an inclusive non-hierarchical organisation operated by neurodivergent people that provides a safe and nurturing environment for divergent thinking, creativity, exploration, and collaborative niche constructionPositive Niche Construction--practice of differentiating instruction for the neurodiverse brainNeurodiversity in the Classroom Positive niche construction is a strengths-based approach to educating students with disabilities. Reimagining Inclusion with Positive Niche Construction... More.
NeurodiVentures | Autistic Collaboration
Punk was created by women, people of color, and queers. And without all of us, it would be nothing.
Alice Bag
Maybe that is the punkness of being a woman.
Marina Muhlfriedel
There have always been, like, women in it, and queer people, and people of color.
That community is also something really cool about punk.
Eloise Wong of The Linda Lindas
When you’re black, you’re punk rock all the time, you’re a target all the time.
Sacha Jenkins
We have been pushed to the margins, but we create in those margins. It doesn’t get more punk than that.
Shawna Shawnté
But before all of them, was a man who inhabited punk in all its definitions. A queer, Black man, who played his music loud and fast and with a defiantly masterful un-polish. Little Richard set the stage for everything that punk would become while inhabiting every sense of the word with pride. John Waters once declared Little Richard “was the first punk.”
QUEER PUNK HISTORY: 1575 – PRESENT
“I went through a lot when I was a boy. They called me sissy, punk, freak…”
Little Richard
Punk has never not been queer.
QUEER PUNK HISTORY: 1575 – PRESENT
I was gay. It’s nice to be happy. I was happy, and I wanted the world to know I was happy. And I wasn’t ashamed. I had been that way all my life, and I didn’t know nothing else but that. And so I told everybody that: I am gay.
“I told everybody I am GAY” Little Richard 1932-2020
All Stimpunks agree to abide by the contributor covenant.
We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.
Contributor Covenant
A tldr one-liner of the contributor covenant that often appears in the codes of conduct of online communities is, “Don’t be TRAASH.”
Don’t be TRAASH (transphobic, racist, ableist, abusive, sexist, homophobic).
At Stimpunks, we add an extra A to TRAAASH, for antisemitic. Like Autistic people, Jewish people are a canary population alerting us that “Never is now”.
Don’t be TRAAASH (transphobic, racist, ableist, abusive, antisemitic, sexist, homophobic).
Another good one-liner: “No proselytizing.” Consult this article and infographic from Chrissy Stroop on anti-proselytizing principles.

Remind yourself that shared values, rather than shared beliefs, are what matter when it comes to interacting with others, and that there is no replacement for doing the hard work of making yourself better.
Chrissy Stroop

Don’t be TRAAASH.
No proselytizing.
Those 5 words distill the minimum requirements to maintaining inclusive spaces.
“Everything is politics”, but the code of conduct is not about an advance of progressive/left-wing politics. It’s about establishing a minimal level of civil and professional collaboration. Civil, non-discriminatory, and professional behavior should be a baseline and shared value held by people of all ideologies, regardless of political affiliation (with the obvious exception of hate groups).
Contributor Covenant: Frequently Asked Questions about Contributor Covenant
When social spaces are designed without concern for all groups of users, the space will become an echo chamber of ideas and perspectives from a narrower range of people.
ADL Social Pattern Library | Inclusive Social Spaces – ADL Social Pattern Library
I know you think I'm not something you're afraid of 'Cause you think that you've seen what I'm made of Well I am even more than the two of them! Everything they care about is what I am! I am their fury, I am their patience I am a conversation! I am made o-o-o-o-of Lo-o-o-o-ove, o-o-o-o-ove And it's stronger than you Lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove And it's stronger than you Lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove And it's stronger than you Lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove, lo-o-o-o-ove -- Stronger Than You
A rainbow doesn't choose to be a rainbow It just shines in the sky To all of you in darkness We're here turning on the light Now I stand with you for the world to see My love, my dreams, and me My love, my dreams, and me -- Rainbow Connections
Fostering healthy pluralism, which democracy demands, means confronting intolerance.
Chrissy Stroop
Let love conquer your mind Warrior, warrior Just reach out for the light Warrior, warrior I am a warrior-ior-ior-ior-ior Warrior, warrior I am a warrior-ior-ior-ior-ior Warrior, warrior of love Underneath darkened skies There's a light kept alive Let love conquer your mind Warrior, warrior Just reach out for the light Warrior, warrior I am a warrior-ior-ior-ior-ior Warrior, warrior I am a warrior-ior-ior-ior-ior Warrior, warrior of love Warrior of love Warrior of love --Warrior by AURORA
Hostility is not the road The proper basic human code Chauvinist intolerance is what we loathe Let's embrace diversity By first rejecting bigotry There’s no more room left in society for animosity We refuse to look away And ignore issues at bay We will conquer the hurdles in our way (We are warriors) (We are warriors) We won't take shit anymore A pebble cuts right to the core All these excuses, what are they for? (We are warriors) We are warriors We are warriors We are warriors We are warriors We are warriors We are warriors --Warriors by Bad Cop/Bad Cop
- We pay
- We exist
- We believe
- We create
- We serve
- Keep on Livin’
- Let Us Be Our Real Selves
- Be Good, Be Loud
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- ∞ Design is tested at the edges.
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- 🫀🧠🌈 Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason.
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- 📚⚖️ The right to learn differently should be a universal human right that’s not mediated by diagnosis.
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- 🛏 We urgently need a society that’s better at letting people get the rest they need.
- 🔨 Stop, Hammer Time: When you measure include the measurer.
- = There is no path to equity that does not involve a direct confrontation with inequity.
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- 🫶 It is time to celebrate our interdependence!
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- 👏 Community is magic. Community is power. Community is resistance.
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- ⏳ Dreams are met, bridges are built -timelines changed.
- 🩸 We exist as friction.
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- Nothing About Us Without Us
- 🪢 Embracing pluralism is good citizenship.
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- 🔌 Name the systems of power.
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- 🏩 What if love said: Hear me out a bit before the future comes around.
- As If We Existed
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