Tag: framing
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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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Rules of Thumb for Human Systems
We perceive through habit, expectation, bias, and assumption. The heuristics that guide us through our days are full of predictable biases (systematic errors). These unconscious, predictable biases are rooted in the machinery of our cognition. When making judgments or decisions, people often rely on simplified information processing strategies called heuristics, which may result in systematic,…
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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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Solarpunk aims to cancel the apocalypse.
“SOLARPUNK: Life in the future” is great long form scrollytelling akin to what we try to do here on our website. We updated our Solarpunk glossary page with selections from it. Solarpunk aims to cancel the apocalypse. SOLARPUNK: Life in the future Solarpunk is Punk after all SOLARPUNK: Life in the future Solarpunk as a…
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Changelog: Engage With the Epistemic Disruptions That Are Necessary if We Are to Change the World
We updated “Change” with a selection from “Keynote: A Critical Reflection on Our Struggle for a More Just and Loving World – Dr. Antonia Darder”. …engage with the epistemic disruptions that are necessary if we are to change the world. Keynote: A Critical Reflection on Our Struggle for a More Just and Loving World –…
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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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Additions to Our Philosophy on Tech Ethics, Algorithmic Oppression, Power, Accommodations, Accessibility, Care, Inclusion, Diagnosis, and Reframing
Our philosophy page collects quotes we steer by. They are compasses and stars that align us on our mission. We recently added quotes on tech ethics, algorithmic oppression, power, accommodations, accessibility, care, inclusion, diagnosis, and reframing. The accommodations for natural human variation should be mutual. Affordability is a part of accessibility. We need a counterculture…
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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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Kinetic Cognitive Style
I’m not a fan of the “ADHD” label because it stands for “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,” and the terms “deficit” and “disorder” absolutely reek of the pathology paradigm. I’ve frequently suggested replacing it with the term Kinetic Cognitive Style, or KCS; whether that particular suggestion ever catches on or not, I certainly hope that the…
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Equity Literacy: Learning to Be a Threat to Inequity in Our Spheres of Influence
Mindset marketing is no threat to inequity and injustice. It’s bikeshedding of the same old deficit ideology. It flakes off quickly. A big influence on me is Paul Gorski of the Equity Literacy Institute. I wish every educator with growth mindset, grit, SEL, and PBIS in their social media bios would take Gorski’s equity courses.…
