This page shows what Stimpunks is working on right now — not polished outcomes or perfect plans, but the real, messy process of building tools, care, and ideas that make life more livable.
We track work that aligns with our values: lived experience leads, access is a right, and care is infrastructure. This space is meant to be transparent about what we’re focusing on, where energy is going, and how progress is actually happening — not as a performance metric, but as an honest reflection of labor, choices, and ongoing commitment.
You’ll find current priorities, experiments in progress, and the small steps that matter most to everyday survival, learning, and connection. We update this often because what matters changes with needs — and we expect that change.
The Now page isn’t a scoreboard; it’s a living snapshot of ongoing work, capacity, and real impact. Think of it as what we’re doing, why it matters, and how far along we are — honest, transparent, and humane.
Most websites have a link that says “about”. It goes to a page that tells you something about the background of this person or business. For short, people just call it an “about page”.
Most websites have a link that says “contact”. It goes to a page that tells you how to contact this person or business. For short, people just call it a “contact page”.
So a website with a link that says “now” goes to a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. For short, we call it a “now page”.
What We’re Doing Now
Ongoing
- Prepping for Weird Pride Day on March 4th.
- Working on providing mobile hotspots for volunteers.
- Working on training presentation for Cavendish Space.
- Reading grant submissions in preparation for the next round of mutual aid and creator grants.
- Helping people navigate healthcare and housing.
- Hosting weekly “Solidarity Sessions” in our Discord community.
- Hosting weekly “Campfire Learn Together” sessions in our Discord community.
- Adding to our always growing glossary.
- Consistently updating our Coping Page with new resources for food assistance, coping tools (such as: the new A.C.T. Tool), and more listings in our service directory.
- We’re trying to cover all of the 20 “BBB Standards for Charity Accountability” and hopefully get accredited. It’s a lot of work.
- Check out our Web Store for some awesome Stimpunks swag!
- Stay tuned by subscribing to our monthly newsletter!
Last updated: February 15, 2026
Objectives and Key Results
Objectives and Key Results for Q1 2026
Objective 1 — Expand Care & Support Infrastructure
Why this matters: Direct support and care systems are core to mission and reduce harm in real lives.
Key Results
- Distribute at least 5 care grants (e.g., aid, tech access, services) to community members
- Launch 2 new coping tools or resources on Coping and Field Guide pages
Objective 2 — Grow and Deepen Learning Pathways
Why this matters: Education grounded in lived experience reframes systems and supports community capacity building.
Key Results
- Finalize and publish 1 new learning module (e.g., Neuroqueer Learning Spaces, Cavendish Space, Ed Design)
- Host 6 Campfire Learn Together sessions focused on these modules
- Gather 10 pieces of user feedback (qualitative) to improve future editions
Objective 3 — Increase Visibility & Outreach
Why this matters: More people reached means more liberation language and more community connected to resources. (Stimpunks Foundation)
Key Results
- Grow newsletter subscription by 15%
- Deliver 8 public events (solidarity sessions, public editorial meetings, or community forums)
- Publish 5 guest articles or collaborative pieces with allied networks (e.g., education or disability justice partners)
Objective 4 — Strengthen Financial Stability
Why this matters: Sustainable funding protects care infrastructure, honors labor, and plans for long-term support.
Key Results
- Apply for 4 community-aligned grants focused on mutual aid, education, or accessibility
- Raise $3,000 in unrestricted support from individual donors
- Secure 1 funding partnership with aligned organization
Objective 5 — Build & Share Knowledge Publicly
Why this matters: Stimpunks prioritizes lived experience and open resources that challenge harmful norms and systems.
Key Results
- Publish 10 new “In Brief” entries (frameworks and models)
- Release 1 visual zine or poster collection summarizing key briefs and manifesto points
- Create a “Take a Walk in Our Shoes” interactive series for deeper engagement
Implementation Notes
- Qualitative feedback (stories, testimonials, user comments) should be collected alongside numbers for true impact reflection.
- OKRs are not about perfection; they are directional beacons to guide work rooted in care and lived reality.
- Emphasize tools that genuinely help the community survive and thrive—not just visibility metrics.
Alignment With Past OKRs
Past efforts in 2025 included fundraising, virtual events, and learning experience development. Q1 2026 builds on those foundations by scaling support infrastructure, advancing educational content, increasing reach, and stabilizing funding.
Objectives and Key Results for Q2 2025
Raise $1,700 in funds and apply for 3 grants
- Apply for 3 grants
- Raise $1700 in organic and peer-to-peer donations
- Raise $500 with partners
Host 13 virtual events and 24 public meetings
Develop 2 learning experiences
- Develop Neuroqueer Learning Spaces training
- Develop Map of Monotropic Experiences training
Numbers updated on June 28, 2025.
Objectives and Key Results for Q1 2025
Raise $1,700 in funds and apply for 3 grants
- Apply for 3 grants
- Raise $1700 in organic and peer-to-peer donations
- Raise $500 with partners
Host 19 virtual events and 24 public meetings
- Host 9 Weekly Solidarity Sessions
- Host 9 Weekly Variety Hours
- Host 1 conference
- Host 12 public operations meetings
- Host 12 public editorial meetings
Develop 2 learning experiences
- Develop Neuroqueer Learning Spaces training
- Develop Map of Monotropic Experiences training
Numbers updated on March 31, 2025.
Transparency Log
We default to open — not because transparency is easy, but because openness is a form of care. This log is where we share what’s happening behind the scenes: decisions, changes, setbacks, and ongoing work that usually stays hidden.
Most organizations hide context, labor, and uncertainty. We don’t. When we document what we tried, what worked, and what didn’t, we make space for collective learning, mutual accountability, and real trust.
This isn’t a polished record of outcomes. It’s a living journal of the choices we’re making, the labor involved, and the reasons behind them. You’re invited to read it, learn from it, and hold it with us — because defaulting to open means you don’t just see the finished product, you see the hands that built it.
| Date | Activity |
|---|---|
| 2026/02/28 | Issued mutual aid grant for February. |
| 2026/02/05 | Published Fundraising transparency documents. |
| 2026/02/05 | Working on compliance with BBB Standards for Charity Accountability |
| 2026/01/19 | Closed grant pipelines |
| 2026/01/01 | Opened grant pipelines |
Next Steps for Our Community
Here are some next steps for our community at Stimpunks:
- Raise funds.
- Raise money to direct into the communities we serve.
- Create ecologies of care.
- Keep people housed, fed, and alive via our aid grants.
- Help people navigate our care systems.
- Provide warm lines and peer respite.
- Defend public education.
- Tell the story: Free, life-changing, and available to everyone.
- Advance progressive education.
- Work with Human Restoration Project, PINE, EALA, Autistic Realms, and others to advance progressive education.
- Continue creating why sheets to assist students, parents, and teachers with their advocacy.
- Advocate for Cavendish Space and Neuroqueer Learning Spaces.
- Tell the story: We’re raising whole children, not Frankenstein children.
- Tell the story: Henry Cavendish, Xerox PARC, and Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes.
- Support creators.
- Grow our creator grants and bring more creators into our Discord community.
- We will need art and competency networks more than ever.
- Build community.
- Bring people into our Discord community.
- Do online events to bring us together and share knowledge.
- Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.
- Grow the rhizome by connecting with other cosmo-local bands of marginalized people.
- We will support each other. We will build our own ecologies of care and our own competency networks. We will build communities and network rhizomatically.
- Participate in research.
- Participatory research that aligns with community priorities and values gives us advocacy ammunition to fight back against regressive practices. Participate in studies.
- Tell stories.
- Help build a progressive storytelling ecosystem to offer an alternative to the right-wing ecosystem.
- “The pro-democracy movement needs to build its own funnel, now. It cannot and should not be a mirror image of the right’s funnel. It should be grounded in truth, not lies, and generosity, not closedness. But it needs to be a total media ecology that can meet people at any level of annoyance, curiosity, irritation, gripe, doubt, with any question — and move them toward a more humane and magnanimous view of the world.” —Anand Giridharadas
- Name the systems of power.
- Defuse resentment.
- Increase our impact.
- Consult our Impact page. Consider the things we measure. How can we make those numbers go up?
4 Pathways
Our next steps travel these 4 pathways.
We Will
- catalyse Stimpunks projects,
- coordinate neurodivergent and disabled peer support,
- document neurodivergent and disabled culture,
- conduct neurodivergent and disabled research,
- develop and deliver education based on lived experiences,
- host events that celebrate neurodivergent and disabled culture.
Problems to Keep in Mind
You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”
—Richard Feynman via “Forte, Tiago. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential (p. 62). Simon Element / Simon Acumen.”
Feynman’s approach encouraged him to follow his interests wherever they might lead. He posed questions and constantly scanned for solutions to long-standing problems in his reading, conversations, and everyday life. When he found one, he could make a connection that looked to others like a flash of unparalleled brilliance.
Ask yourself, “What are the questions I’ve always been interested in?”
In the spirit of Richard Feynman’s 12 problems, here are some questions to keep in mind as we go about our business:
- How do we raise more funds?
- How do we keep our community safe while including more people?
- How do we set boundaries to protect our mental health without being called performative?
- How do we help people survive the dismantling of healthcare systems and the administrative state?
- How do we increase community engagement in Discord and on social media?
- How do we support our 4 pillars: Mutual Aid, Creator Grants, Learning Space, Open Research?
- How do we resist behaviorism in education and healthcare?
- Who should we add to our board?
What should we add?
Changelog
We publish a monthly changelog.
Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 10 2026
This was a light week. We focused on rest. Rest is regulation. Rest is repair. Rest is how we stay…
Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — February 2026
Infrastructure. Clearer paths. Stronger spine. February was about tightening the architecture: philosophically, structurally, and operationally. We didn’t just publish more content….
Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 9 2026
This week we strengthened access infrastructure, clarified our mission, and continued refining how people find their way through Stimpunks….
Newsletter
We publish a monthly newsletter.
Glossary
We constantly update our glossary.
Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for March 2025
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 400 terms in English and 449…
Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for February 2025
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 396 terms in English and 431…
Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for January 2025
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 388 terms in English and 423…
Feeds
We’re on pretty much all of the social networks, but we are most active and engaged on our Bluesky.
- Bluntly: Frith’s entire career was a waste of time that did more harm than good. We don’t need more scientism and epistemic injustice. https://stimpunks.org/2023/11/22/on-the-problems-with-science-of-reading/ [contains quote post or other embedded […]
- Co-signed. https://stimpunks.org/why/behaviorism/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Building Neurodivergent-Affirming Cultures of Regulation: Reflections from a Cavendish Space Workshop At the heart of Cavendish Space is a simple but profound question: do we feel safe with ourselves, and […]
- “…all these attempts at Windows of Safety can’t be done alone, … Autistics need not only to protect one another, which we do as fiercely as possible, but we need […]
- This year, so far, our most-read pages are about naming real neurodivergent experience: love, solitude, sensory life, attention, and authenticity. stimpunks.org https://stimpunks.org/
- March 4 is Weird Pride Day. We need Weird Pride more than ever in this moment defined by mass behaviorism, rising compliance culture, and the return of unvarnished eugenics. https://stimpunks.org/2026/02/23/weird-pride-day-2026-march-4/
- March 4 is Weird Pride Day. We need Weird Pride more than ever in this moment defined by mass behaviorism, rising compliance culture, and the return of unvarnished eugenics. https://stimpunks.org/2026/02/23/weird-pride-day-2026-march-4/
- This week was about trust + navigation + survivability. We strengthened our public accountability infrastructure, shipped a new hub-based site architecture, and made Stimpunks dramatically easier to enter without already […]
- We’ve earned the 2026 Candid Silver Seal of Transparency. Governance, financials, and impact reporting are publicly available. https://stimpunks.org/about/accountability/
You can find the latest feeds for our social networks on our Feeds page.
Pebble Board
Our Pebble Board lists the fidgets and media we’re enjoying lately.
