Tag: disability
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Campfire Learn Together: Being Disabled Can Be Pretty Funny
For this Campfire Learn Together, we are watching stand-up comedy by two disabled comedians — Josh Blue and Tina Friml — and talked about what their work reveals about disability, identity, and the world.
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Aspire To Be Autonomous: How The Principles of The Neurodiversity Movement Can Empower Neurodivergent and Disabled People
Key terms: Neurodiversity – a fact that there is a diversity of human brains and minds Neurodiversity paradigm – a specific framework stemming from neurodiversity being a natural form of diversity (like biodiversity) and that a ‘healthy’ or ‘normal’ is a social construct. It is a revolutionary way of thinking about being human because it…
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Disability Inclusion Fund Grant Proposal
We recently applied for the “Disability Inclusion Fund Grant” and thought we’d share our answers to their questions. Questions Guiding Values All funding will be aligned with the Disability Inclusion Fund’s guiding values: Participation: Movement funding is accountable to the disability justice movement. Those most impacted by injustice/exclusion should be involved in strategies to advance…
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Picnic at the Zoo!
Who: Members of the Dripping Springs Friendship Club What: picnic lunch and zoo visit (bring your lunch/drink) They do not have water fountains, but do sell bottled water in the gift shop if needed. When: Friday ~ May 3, 2024 starting @ 12:30 PM Where: Austin Zoo ~ 10808 Rawhide Trail Austin, TX 78736 Why:…
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A Scrollytellying Journey Through the Rough Terrain of Lived Experience Punctuated with Art and Joy
Many revisions later… The first five pages of our website are a scrollytellying journey through the rough terrain of lived experience punctuated with spectacular art and music. Made with agony and joy, this is our story of surviving, reframing, and finding like-minded misfits. Scrollytelling is the fusion of scrolling and storytelling: a way to dynamically…
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We Rebuild What You Destroy: A Celebration of The Linda Lindas and Punk DIY Ethos
We were really angry, and we decided to write a song about it.
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Changelog: “Accommodation” Implies a Sort of Permission
We updated our “Accommodation” glossary page with a selection from “The Future of Design Is Designing for Disability” by s.e. smith. “Accommodation” implies a sort of permission, something granted to another person. It suggests that there’s something abnormal about a disabled person that requires extra effort. In the case of the ADA, people fighting accessibility…
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Interdependence, Access Intimacy, and Crip Technoscience: Disabled people do really cool things with language if people would pay attention.
Crip languaging incorporates practices of access intimacy, adaptions of technology, and relationality. To sum up, disabled people do really cool things with language if people would pay attention. View of Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: A Crip Linguistics Manifesto We updated “Crip Linguistics”, “Written Communication Is the Great Social Equalizer”, “Interdependence”, and “Access Intimacy” with selections…
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Changelog: The Cult of Compliance 33 Years After the ADA
We updated “The Cult of Compliance and the Policing of the Norm” with a selection from “33 Years and Still So Much Work Must be Done: A Reflection on the ADA at 33 | by Jordyn Jensen, Jamelia Morgan, and Nicholas Lawson | CRDJ | Medium”. Disabled people, particularly people of color with disabilities, are…
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Stimpunks Podcast Episode 3: On Jordan Neely and Support Systems
In this episode, Inna reflects on what happens when a neurodivergent person’s support system goes away and society fails them. Transcript Our Loved Ones are Jordan Neely So, I’m sitting here by the lake, and it’s so peaceful and beautiful. The water is really clear and I could see the fish and the turtles, and…
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Stimpunks Podcast Episode 1: The Logistics of Inclusion
cofounder Inna is the motive force behind our efforts to gain inclusion into our systems and institutions. In this episode, she talks about the logistics of inclusion, including: Transcript Respecting Privacy It’s five 30 in the morning, no, I’m sorry, five 18 in the morning, and I am the only one in the house awake,…
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Changelog: Updated and New on Stimpunks.org for Calendar Week 1, January 2023
We continuously update our site with the latest research and community writing. This week: 2 new blog posts. 6 updated pages. 17 updated glossary entries. 9 new glossary entries. New blog posts Updated Pages Updated glossary entries New glossary entries
