Tag: disability
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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
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What the Mods Mean for Disability Representation in Star Wars
This video essay from Questing Refuge on disability representation and radical visibility in Star Wars is excellent and appreciated. In this video, I hope to highlight why aesthetic choices like we see with The Mods can make a lot of sense by exploring groups in real life that choose to stand out. how The Mods…
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Reframe Disability and Difference with Stimpunks
Reframe these states of being that have been labelled deficiencies or pathologies as human differences. Normal Sucks: Author Jonathan Mooney on How Schools Fail Kids with Learning Differences Not having the vocabulary to describe yourself and your loved ones is a tragedy. Our story of reframing disability and difference starts on our front page and…
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Accommodations: Individualized Responses to Structural Design Problems
Accommodations are individualized responses to structural design problems. The accommodations for natural human variation should be mutual and universal.
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Additions to Our Philosophy on Disability Justice, Dignity, Anti-racism, and Moral Obligation
We added quotes on disability justice, dignity, anti-racism, and moral obligation to our Mission and Philosophy page. 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 21st Century It is in the dignity of the…
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September at Stimpunks: Our Blogging, Our Reading, Our Giving
September was busy at Stimpunks. We made progress on setting up the foundation and the philanthropic LLC. We got a new logo. We helped launch Josephmooon’s website and their rock album about autistic life. And we did the usual blogging, reading, and giving. Our Blogging Inclusive Meetings, Classes, and Presentations with Access Notes, Bodymind Affirmations,…
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Defining Ableism
Excerpted below are quotes from community writing and scholarly studies on the definition, history, and forms of ableism. Content notes: ableism, racism, sexism, white supremacy, slavery, ABA, cure, defectiveness, eugenics, scientific racism, torture, murder, police violence, state violence, suicide, institutionalization, imprisonment Ableism A system that places value on people’s bodies and minds based on societally…
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The Neurodivergent Experience in Josephmooon’s “So Far So Good”
Our own Ronan released an album. Ronan is lyricist for Josephmooon. You can read the story of their distributed collaboration on their blog: josephmooon explained more backstory “How to write a song” Mooonmemories These songs resonate with my autistic, bipolar, and disabled life. I’m super excited to add them to my favorite playlist, Chronic Neurodivergent…
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Disability Dongles: Designing for the Individual, Not the Collective
“I feel like solutions to inaccessibility are often rooted in whiteness, because anyone who doesn’t think about it would think it’s cool but the reality is that they’ve created accessibility for the individual, not the collective and reinforces the class hierarchy because the wealthy would be the only ones with complete accessibility.” Source: Imani Barbarin…
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Rejecting the Good Cripple Mythos: This is why we need cripple punk.
The post attracted a flood of hate mail, saying that disability isn’t something to be proud of, that disabled people shouldn’t smoke, or that a movement that “leaves out healthy people” isn’t punk. Trewhella took screenshots of the messages and added them to the post, writing, “This is why we need cripple punk.” Other people…
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Politically and Culturally-engaged Collaborators, Not Just Users and Testers
Clinical, charitable, and institutional channels serve to weed out isolated, multiply marginalized, independent activists, scholars, and artists—those who may be suspicious of large-scale, centralized approaches to advocacy and the ways they tend to concentrate power. By relying primarily on charities as recruitment channels, Unilever effectively ensured that politically and culturally engaged disabled people were excluded…