Tag: language
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Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for August 2024
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 375 terms. We added 15 new terms in the past month. Several of these are for our “Systems of Power Learning Pathway”. Here are the latest terms: Learning Management System Becoming Schoolishness Transcendent Thinking Stim Listening Segregationist Discourse Eye Contact Horizontal…
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Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary for July 2024
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 360 terms. We added 20 new terms in the past month. Here are the latest terms: Community of Practice Somatic Rudder Neuro-Holographic Dress Codes Fidgeting Nature Code-Meshing Autistic Rapport Resentment Woke Wild Allyship Human Needs Extractive Abandonment SpInfodump Sadopopulism Oligarchy Technoableism…
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Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary
As we go about our work, we expand our glossary, which is currently at 341 terms. Here are the latest entries. When we successfully reframe public discourse, we change the way the public sees the world. We change what counts as common sense. Because language activates frames, new language is required for new frames. Thinking differently…
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Latest Terms in the Stimpunks Glossary
Our glossary grows. It’s at 320 terms. Here are the latest 21 terms added.
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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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No Competition of Hierarchies Should Prevail: Identity Politics, Strategic Essentialism, Rhizomes, Punk, and Oppression Olympics
Identity politics can be employed to simultaneously uplift marginalised members of society and deconstruct the mechanisms of their marginalisation. Spider-Verse, Identity Politics, Leftist Infighting, and the Oppression Olympics – YouTube Identity politics can be one tool we use to override our discomfort with others and instead draw together into coalition. We should use it as…
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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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Autism‐Related Language Preferences of English‐Speaking Individuals Across the Globe
This brand new open access research confirms broad autistic community preference for identity-first language and the words “autism”, “autistic”, and “neurodivergent”. …autistic people’s language preferences often result from deep reflection on discrimination, ableism, and their identity. …the term that was endorsed by the highest proportion of the participants was ‘Autistic person’ 79.5%, followed by ‘Neurodivergent…
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May 2022, so far, at Stimpunks: New Pages for the Website
We started a Research page that opens with a spicy assessment of the status quo of autism studies, “Facts, Fire, and Feels: Research-Storytelling from the Edges“. We started an Access page. There’s a subpage dedicated to Healthcare Access. There’s a subpage dedicated to Education Access. There’s a page for Interaction Access. And there’s a page…
