Tag: music
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None of Us Ashes, All of Us Flames: Let’s Organize Our Lives Around Love and Care
We may only be subordinates but we hear everything All your closed-door conversations, we’re always listening We sense frequencies you’d never hear or think to pay attention to And we can tell what’s on its way here, long before the train comes through Canaries Ezra Furman’s “All of Us Flames” is an anthem for we…
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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…
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Chronic Neurodivergent Depressed Queer Punk: Punk Rock, the Social Model of Disability, and the Dream of the Accepting Community
Everything that was normally supposed to be hidden was brought to the front. Punk subculture – Wikipedia The lyrics referred to the way many people viewed fans of punk rock (who often endured stares, slurs and assaults at the time), but they could just have easily been about people diagnosed with mental illnesses, who are frequently looked…
