Tag: ableism
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Grant Application Questions and Answers
Here are our answers to the questions on a grant we recently applied for. History When did your group come together and why? Share major accomplishments and tell us about your recent activities, successes, and learning opportunities. Stimpunks was created to forge the way for educational inclusion and to give our community the means to…
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DEI-AB and Their Adversaries
What are diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging? What are their narrative adversaries? We provide a glossary of terms below. Follow the links for deeply sourced reference materials.
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14 Obstacles to DEI-AB and Neurodiversity Affirming Practice
Getting human-centered, neurodiversity affirming, progressive practices into education, healthcare, and other systems is a battle, a grueling and grinding battle through bad narratives and bad framing. framing = mental structures that shape the way we see the world Our community of neurodivergent and disabled people encounters the following narratives over-and-over with dreadful regularity. They are…
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Ordinary tried to fix me. I was a threat to a page in history.
I make the right mistakesAnd I say what I meanSpare me from the mold Spare Me From The Mold by Gossip We are marginalized canaries in a social coalmine and Rawlsian barometers of society’s morality. It is deeply subversive to live proudly despite being living embodiments of our culture’s long standing ethical failings. Our non-compliance is not intended to be…
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The Lack of Listening in Healthcare
Our allies at Human Restoration Project shared the efforts of their friends at Cortico on “human listening” and “community listening”. I’m here for human listening and community listening and participatory research. As I dive back into the medical model for another round of treatment, I again profoundly feel the lack of listening and the weight…
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Changelog: Ableism is what makes all other “isms” effective
We updated our Ableism glossary page with this distilled truth from Imani Barbarin. Ableism is what makes all other “isms” effective… White supremacy is the goal, ableism is the toolkit. Ableism is a closed loop of a system. Our ableism glossary page opens with this definition from Talila A. Lewis. able·ism /ˈābəˌlizəm/ noun A system…
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Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse Issue #4: From an Ivory Tower Built on Sand to Open, Participatory, Emancipatory, Activist Research
Autism research is out-of-touch with the “real” world Frontiers | From ivory tower to inclusion: Stakeholders’ experiences of community engagement in Australian autism research Our “Stimpunks Guide to the NeurodiVerse” series surveys recent neurodiversity and disability related research. In this issue, we highlight how the vast majority of autism research is divorced from the lived…
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“Autism research is in crisis”: A Mixed Method Study of Researcher’s Constructions of Autistic People and Autism Research
…autistic people disrupt research agendas. @DrMBotha This new research investigates ableist framing and language in autism research, of which there is an abundance. While not all autism research is ableism, autism researchers can be ableist, including by talking about autistic people in sub-human terms (dehumanization), treating autistic people like objects (objectification), and making othering statements…
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100 Seconds to Midnight: The Need for a Human-Centered Education
Our friends at Human Restoration Project released a very important documentary called “100 Seconds to Midnight: The Need for a Human-Centered Education“. In January 2020 – in what now seems like a prophetic forecast for the distressing year to come – the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced to the world that it was “100 Seconds…
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Stop, Hammer Time: It’s not Science vs Philosophy … It’s Science + Philosophy. 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…
