Stimpunks Foundation

Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People

A group of disabled queer Black folks talk and laugh at a sleepover, relaxing across two large beds. Everyone is dressed in colorful t-shirts and wearing a variety of sleep scarves, bonnets, and durags. On the left, two friends sit on one bed and paint each other’s nails. On the right, four people lounge on a bed: one person braids another’s hair while the third friend wearing a C-PAP mask laughs, and the fourth person looks up from their book. In the center, a bedside lamp illuminates the room in warm light while pill bottles adorn an end table.

Love and Care

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Via our Mission, Creed, Covenant, Philosophy, and Manifesto, we organize our lives around love and care.

Let’s organize our lives around love and care.

A group of disabled queer Black folks talk and laugh at a sleepover, relaxing across two large beds. Everyone is dressed in colorful t-shirts and wearing a variety of sleep scarves, bonnets, and durags. On the left, two friends sit on one bed and paint each other’s nails. On the right, four people lounge on a bed: one person braids another’s hair while the third friend wearing a C-PAP mask laughs, and the fourth person looks up from their book. In the center, a bedside lamp illuminates the room in warm light while pill bottles adorn an end table.

Mission

We exist for the direct support and mutual aid of neurodivergent and disabled people.

We serve our loved people so we can keep on living through the onslaught.

Hands overlapping with a heart painted in the middle

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 neurodivergent and disabled experience in service to all bodyminds.

A disembodied arm with blue skin and a self-care tattoo flashes the sign of the horns

Covenant

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Two cosmic beings, one bearing a red hue and one bearing a blue hue, share a spark inducing kiss

Philosophy

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

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Interdependence

It is time to celebrate our interdependence. 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.

The many forms of difference. Adaptive Behavior Assessment (ABAS-3), Adult ADHD Self-report Scale (ASRS-v1.1), and Behavior Rating Inventory Executive Function (BRIEF 2) forms spread across a wooden table

Edges

Our designs, our societies, and the boundaries of our compassion are tested at the edges, where the truths told are of bias, inequality, injustice, and thoughtlessness.

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Manifesto

This is a manifesto that begins but will never end. This is a translation of my world into yours. This is a protest of the notion that there is any correct way to live. We reject neuronormativity and demand the right to learn and live differently.

Ezra Furman – “Temple Of Broken Dreams”

Love and Care

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

Ezra Furman – Temple of Broken Dreams Lyrics

Imagine a world of love and care.

A World of Love and Care – YouTube
Do you ever imagine a world of love and care?
Do you ever imagine a world of love and care?
What would you be doing right now if you lived there?
Human dignity was supposed to be a guarantee for all
For all

Who gets left out of your dream of a good society?
Who gets left out of your dream of a good society?
Who got left out in your dream of a good society?
Dream better
Dream bigger with me

Do you remember a time when you needed love and care?
Do you remember a time when you needed love and care?
You called out for help and no one was there
Love and dignity were supposed to be the priority for us
For us

But you got caught in a bad dream where strength is cruelty
You got caught in a bad dream where strength is cruelty
You got caught in a bad dream of a fucked up way to be
Dream better
Dream bigger
Dream better
Dream bigger with me

Do you ever imagine a world of love and care?
Do you ever imagine a world of love and care?
What would you be doing right now if you lived there?

Ezra Furman – A World of Love and Care Lyrics

Dream better

Dream bigger

With me

Header image credit: Jonathan Y. Eden for Disabled And Here