Tag: music
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Gather ‘Round Creeps: Happy Halloween from the Black Leather Lagoon
Ask your parents how to make a monster. Death, divergence, and whimsy. Enjoy this punky Halloween playlist full of weird pride.
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Community: The Story of East Bay Punk
I love punk documentaries. Community comes together to build inclusive spaces. Community rebounds after losing spaces. Community fights off skinheads with bats and pipes to keep spaces safe. Community learns how to DIY together. Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history…
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Best Buddies Walk of Central TX
Location: Westlake High School – Chaparral Stadium Address: 4100 Westbank Drive Austin, TX 78746 Date: Saturday 04/20/2024 from 9 AM – 12 PM CST Duration: 3 hours Group: Members of Dripping Springs Friendship Club and Stimpunks Foundation No one is obligated to walk the track to participate in this event. See details below. We have…
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Love Is Everything: An Inclusion Song Featuring Nonspeaking Singers
“Love Is Everything (revisited)” by The Eddie Ray Band, featuring nonspeaking and minimally speaking singers, brings the feels and invites singing along, together. The notion of disability in our society is underscored by a bizarre conception of “independence”. It is time to celebrate our interdependence! Collaboration allows us to create genuinely safe spaces for autistic…
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None of Us Ashes, All of Us Flames: Let’s Organize Our Lives Around Love and Care
Ezra Furman’s “All of Us Flames” is an anthem for we the neurodivergent, queer, disabled, and weird. This is music by and for the edges, for the canaries. This is a call to community for the subaltern and the dispossessed. Our survival is bound up together in the gutter adversity. We may only be subordinates…
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A Sound That Turns the Mountains Into Sand
When bigots have got me down and I need to scream and air guitar it out, I turn to Screaming Females, my favorite power trio of all time and space. Marissa Paternoster is an epic force on vocals and guitar. Here she is singing about gender non-conformity and homophobia, screaming “While you sit on the…
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Stimpunks and Vancerts Presents: The Bobby Lees and Forty Feet Tall
The music of The Bobby Lees resonates with my neurodivergent life and neurology. I love this band so much. When Stimpunks got the chance to help secure a venue for them during SxSW, we jumped at it. Thanks, Vancerts, for including us. Thanks, Cryptic Creative, for the connection. Friday, March 18, 1-5PM Halcyon Coffee, Bar,…
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The Music of Stimpunks: A Public Service Announcement… with Guitar
We placed songs from our “Chronic Neurodivergent Depressed Queer Punk” and “Pluralism Rocks” playlists throughout stimpunks.org, tying them into our advocacy. They collectively serve as a Public Service Announcement, with guitar. The music: Spare Me From the Mold by Gossip Neurodivergent by Rabbit Junk Standing in the Way of Control by Gossip Keep On Livin’…
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Stimpunks Presents: Josephmooon and the Irie Smial Preserve
Stimpunks is proud to present Josephmooon and the Irie Smial Preserve. Lately I’ve been feeling out of tune out of tune I don’t know why but I would like to know why And I want to get back in tune Out of tune that’s what I am Being out of tune pains my head (can’t…
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The Art of Jasmine Slater Accompanied by Nina Simone
Beautiful, captivating, and affecting. Thanks for sharing with the world, @jasdwrites (Jasmine Slater). I sat with this piece for a long while, first in silence and then with a playlist I assembled in attempt to capture some of the feels evoked. I started the playlist with a video from a campaign to end race-based hair…
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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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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…
