Field Guide

▶ Table of Contents

Orienting
Communication
IT
Operations
Editorial
Fundraising
Coping
DEI-AB
Venues
Events

Stimpunks Field Guide:

A Punk Codex of Community Care & Applied Learning

A Carryable Compendium of Coping and Collaboration, Concisely Considered, for Sustainably Surviving at Human Scale Through Collaborative Niche Construction at the Edges

This is not a manual. This is not a rulebook. This is a living document forged in the margins, scrawled in the spaces between what’s allowed and what’s necessary, built by bodyminds that refused to wait for permission.

What you hold is a codex—part survival guide, part battle plan, part love letter to everyone who’s been told they don’t fit. We’ve collected our hard-won knowledge: the workarounds, the shortcuts, the mutual aid networks, the tools that actually work when the systems designed to help us don’t. This is applied learning born from necessity, community care distilled into actionable practice.

The punk ethos runs through every section: DIY or die. Nothing about us without us. No gods, no masters, no gatekeepers. We document how we communicate, how we cope, how we build technology that serves us instead of surveilling us. We map out our rights because knowing them is the first act of resistance. We create accessibility guides because access is solidarity made concrete.

This guide exists at human scale—small enough to carry, specific enough to use, honest enough to trust. From onboarding new members to navigating hostile venues, from markdown syntax to meltdown management, these are the protocols that keep us alive and fighting. Each checklist is a small rebellion. Each procedure is proof we built something that works for us.

Walk in our shoes. Not as tourism, not as inspiration porn, but as an invitation to collaborative niche construction at the edges where we’ve found ways to thrive. This is how we sustainably survive. This is how we care for each other when care is both political act and daily practice.

Grab what you need. Add what you’ve learned. Pass it on. That’s the punk way.

Welcome to the Field Guide. Welcome to the fight. Welcome home.