This page shows what Stimpunks is working on right now — not polished outcomes or perfect plans, but the real, messy process of building tools, care, and ideas that make life more livable.
We track work that aligns with our values: lived experience leads, access is a right, and care is infrastructure. This space is meant to be transparent about what we’re focusing on, where energy is going, and how progress is actually happening — not as a performance metric, but as an honest reflection of labor, choices, and ongoing commitment.
You’ll find current priorities, experiments in progress, and the small steps that matter most to everyday survival, learning, and connection. We update this often because what matters changes with needs — and we expect that change.
The Now page isn’t a scoreboard; it’s a living snapshot of ongoing work, capacity, and real impact. Think of it as what we’re doing, why it matters, and how far along we are — honest, transparent, and humane.
Most websites have a link that says “about”. It goes to a page that tells you something about the background of this person or business. For short, people just call it an “about page”.
Most websites have a link that says “contact”. It goes to a page that tells you how to contact this person or business. For short, people just call it a “contact page”.
So a website with a link that says “now” goes to a page that tells you what this person is focused on at this point in their life. For short, we call it a “now page”.
What We’re Doing Now
This is where we are. Not where we’re headed in theory — where we’re actually putting time, energy, and care right now. It changes because we change, because needs change, because the world keeps moving. What you see here is real.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 25 2026: From the Clinic to the Machine, From the Watch List to the Action
From a model of distress to the architecture of a machine, Week 25 gave the method a name — ARLES — and read three bodies of research against it, finding the same shape each time. And the watch list became an action. - Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 24 2026: From the Threshold to the Frontline, From Converging Toward to Refusing to ConsentFrom research that arrives near the door and stops at the threshold of systemic action to an editorial that crosses it, Week 24 worked the line between the environmental layer and the systemic one — and named who keeps getting priced out of the room.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 23 2026: From the Work to the Way In, From Coded Out to Built ForFrom three pages that had everything but an opening to three sources that named the door code slams shut, Week 23 worked the same threshold from both sides — it built the doors we hold open and named the ones coded shut.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — May 2026: From framework to fabric. From survival to belonging. From the maps we drew to the paths you wear.
May was a month with two motions running at once. We built architecture — a series hub, a /space/ design system, an evidence base citable enough to hand to a funder. And then we learned the harder lesson the architecture exists to serve: the test of a map is not how well it’s drawn. It’s whether anyone walks it. So we stopped guessing the route and read the path already worn. - Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 22 2026: From the Maps We Drew to the Paths You Wear, From Prescription to Desire LinesFrom a navigation overhaul rebuilt on thirty days of traffic data to Cavendish Space mapped against desire lines and lines of flight, Week 22 did the same thing in two registers — it watched where people actually go, then built for them.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 21 2026: From Pockets to Pebbles, From Survival Infrastructure to Belonging InfrastructureFrom everyday carry to card games, from glossary philosophy to content pages getting what they were owed, Week 21 built survival infrastructure and connection infrastructure at the same time — because for neurodivergent and disabled people, they are the same project.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 20 2026: From Crosswalk to Cosmos, From Framework to FabricFrom framework synthesis to glossary depth, Week 20 built the /space/ ecosystem into a citable, interconnected design system — and kept expanding the vocabulary of neurodivergent life.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 19 2026: From Series to Surface, From Glossary to GroundWeek 19 was a week of architecture and surface — simultaneously. We built series infrastructure that gives the site a new navigational logic, and we rewrote page after page to do the argumentative work they always promised. Series pages. Landing pages. Section intros. Bridge paragraphs. The site now has five named series, a hub to find them, and a homepage that says so. Underneath all of that: a Transparency Log entry, a mutual aid grant, new glossary terms, a new Infodumplings post, a Campfire, a flyer, and a Le Tigre deep dive.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — April 2026: From legibility to architecture. From ethics to universe. From pages to positions.From legibility to architecture. From ethics to universe. From pages to positions. April was a month of transformation. Pages became systems. Guardrails became arguments. A phrase became a microsite, and a microsite became a universe. We named what couldn’t be named before, showed funders who we are, gave our events a voice, and turned an ethics page into one of the most substantive things we’ve published. April, in a sentence: scattered things got gathered, and growing things got shaped.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 18 2026: From Star Stuff to Progressive LearningWeek 18 was a week of expansion and architecture. If there’s a single thread: things that had been scattered got gathered. Things that had been growing got shaped.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 17 2026: From Ethics to Architecture, From Harm Reduction to PowerWeek 17 was a week of turning ethics into architecture. The AI Collaboration ethics page has been growing since it launched. This week it grew up. Over seven days we added more than a dozen sections — on harm reduction, disability justice, engineered exclusion, the double empathy problem in code, art as community representation, MADTech… Read more: Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 17 2026: From Ethics to Architecture, From Harm Reduction to Power
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 16 2026: From Niche to Norm, From Ethics to ErosThe work this week moved through philosophy, ethics, community, and identity. We published new research integrations, expanded two glossary pages, updated our AI ethics guardrails to honor more voices, added community-facing welcome text, and held two learning events. One of them — the Campfire on Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s keynote — asked the hardest question in education: what do we actually owe the people we’re supposed to be developing?
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 15 2026: From Design to Event, From Evidence to PhilosophyWeek 15 was a full week. We published Week 14’s changelog. Then kept building. The work spread across every major register we operate in: homepage copy, glossary, brand documentation, research framing, events infrastructure, community sharing, and the Learning Space page — our most philosophically dense page — which received its most significant expansion to date. If there’s a single thread running through all of it: we made more of our thinking visible. Not just what we do, but why. Not just what we believe, but how the pieces connect.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 14 2026: From the Nervous System to the Funder BriefWeek 14 covered a lot of ground — from the micro to the macro, from individual glossary terms for nervous system states to organization-level pages built for funders.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — March 2026: From traits to patterns. From presence to permission. From checklists to infrastructure.What we built, what we learned, what we’re doing next. This newsletter pulls from our Now page, where we work in public. Read the Now Page · Get Help · Donate — 🧠🌈 March at Stimpunks From traits to patterns. From presence to permission. From checklists to infrastructure. March was a design month in the… Read more: Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — March 2026: From traits to patterns. From presence to permission. From checklists to infrastructure.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 13 2026: From Checklists to PatternsWeek 13 was about translation. Taking what we know — about access, about co-regulation, about communication — and making it actionable. Turning checklists into infrastructure. Turning citations into frameworks. Turning style notes into principled stances. The theme: access as design, not aftercare.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 12 2026: From Traits to Systems, From Presence to Permission and RegulationWeek 12 was about tightening the Stimpunks design system. We turned scattered ideas into a coherent method, and made that method visible and usable.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 11 2026This week was a major milestone for Stimpunks. Over the past several weeks we have been building a large set of pages, maps, and design tools. In Week 11 those pieces came together into something much bigger: a coherent knowledge system for understanding and designing neurodivergent environments. Stimpunks is no longer just a website or resource list. It is becoming a field guide, pattern language, and design framework for neurodivergent life.
- Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 10 2026This was a light week. We focused on rest. Rest is regulation. Rest is repair. Rest is how we stay present for the work that matters.
- Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — February 2026Infrastructure. Clearer paths. Stronger spine. February was about tightening the architecture: philosophically, structurally, and operationally. We didn’t just publish more content. We clarified what Stimpunks is, how it works, and how people find their way through it.
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Ongoing
This is the work that doesn’t have a finish line. Some of it is community care, some is infrastructure, some is knowledge-building. All of it is real.
- Building the Stimpunks Pattern Library — a named, growing vocabulary for how neurodivergent attention, energy, and experience work.
- Translating patterns into actionable Design Recipes for classrooms, workplaces, homes, and care spaces.
- Developing From Checklists to Patterns as a core design resource — reframing access as infrastructure, not aftercare.
- Expanding the Stimpunks Design Method with the ARLES ladder: Attention → Relational → Lived Experience → Environments → Systems.
- Actively developing the AI Collaboration guide — adding guardrails, MADTech framing, harm reduction, and testimony distinctions.
- Working toward submitting the DIF Collaborative Grant with Human Restoration Project — centered on neurodivergent design and the ARLES method.
- Publishing the May 2026 Newsletter — what we built, what we learned, what’s next.
- Working on providing mobile hotspots for volunteers.
- Restructuring and building out Cavendish Space — page reorganized and training presentation in development.
- Reading grant submissions in preparation for the next round of mutual aid and creator grants.
- Helping people navigate healthcare and housing.
- Hosting weekly “Solidarity Sessions” in our Discord community.
- Hosting weekly “Campfire Learn Together” sessions in our Discord community — recent sessions include a keynote by Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang on whole-child learning.
- Hosting weekly “Infodumplings” sessions in our Discord community.
- Adding to our always growing glossary — recent entries include Intensive Interaction, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, and more.
- Consistently updating our Coping Page with new resources for food assistance, coping tools (such as: the new A.C.T. Tool), and more listings in our service directory.
- We’re trying to cover all of the 20 “BBB Standards for Charity Accountability” and hopefully get accredited. It’s a lot of work.
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Last updated: June 9, 2026
What We’re Not Doing Right Now
Naming limits as choices, not failures.
- Not accepting new consulting engagements.
- Not running in-person events.
- Not pursuing rapid growth.
Objectives and Key Results
OKRs are how we make intentions legible — to ourselves and to the people who trust us with their attention and support. They’re not a performance. They’re a commitment to honesty about what we’re trying to do, how we’re measuring it, and whether it’s working. We miss some. We change course. We report back either way.
April – June 2026
A note on Q1: Q1’s OKRs were overly optimistic. What we actually built was different — and better suited to who we are and how we work. Q1 was a foundational quarter: we built the Neurodivergent Design System, launched the Pattern Library, shipped the hub architecture, and earned Candid Silver. None of that was on the Q1 OKR list. The Q2 OKRs below are drawn from what we’ve actually been doing and what we’ve already committed to doing next.
Objective 1 — Deepen the Pattern Language
Why this matters: The Pattern Library is the core vocabulary of the Stimpunks design method. A richer, more connected language enables more people to recognize themselves — and to build environments that work for neurodivergent people. Recognition leads to design, and design leads to livable worlds.
Key Results
- Expand the Pattern Library from 18 to 30+ named patterns (including Environmental Weathering, Bodymind Break, and Bodymind Affirmation)
- Publish 3+ Pattern Clusters connecting related patterns into ecological groups
- Connect the Pattern Library to 5+ real-world environment pages or case studies, so patterns lead to action — not just description
Objective 2 — Build Cavendish Space as a Usable Model
Why this matters: Cavendish Space makes the pattern language concrete. It’s a model for regulation-first, attention-aware learning environments that can be understood and applied by teachers, administrators, and designers. The work is already underway — Q2 is about making it transmissible.
Key Results
- Publish 5+ Cavendish Space Design Patterns connecting the model to the broader Pattern Library
- Publish 1 Cavendish Space case study or workshop reflection grounding the model in real practice
- Connect all Cavendish Space pages to relevant Pattern Library entries and Design Recipes
Objective 3 — Ship Practical, Usable Tools
Why this matters: A pattern language only helps if people can use it. Printable recipes, classroom tools, and navigation aids reduce the distance between Stimpunks’ ideas and practice in real environments. Access as design, not aftercare.
Key Results
- Publish 5+ printable or classroom-ready Pattern Recipes (building on the 8 already published)
- Add 3+ new resources to the Regulation & Coping Hub — practical, not decorative
- Expand Browse by Need to cover at least 5 additional need-based entry points, making it a genuine primary navigation option for new visitors
Objective 4 — Sustain the Public Knowledge Infrastructure
Why this matters: Consistency is how trust is built. Weekly changelogs and monthly newsletters are the backbone of Stimpunks’ commitment to working in public. They document labor, honor transparency, and keep the community connected to the work. We maintained this cadence through Q1 — Q2 is about holding it.
Key Results
- Publish weekly changelogs for all 13 weeks of Q2 (Weeks 14–26)
- Publish monthly newsletters in April, May, and June
- Complete at least 1 step toward Candid Gold transparency certification (building from Silver)
Objective 5 — Build Toward Financial Sustainability
Why this matters: Sustainable funding protects the work, honors labor, and makes mutual aid possible. We don’t over-promise on fundraising — but we can build the infrastructure and make intentional progress.
Key Results
- Distribute 1 mutual aid grant to a community member (at the rate of 1 every other month)
- Submit 2 grant applications to community-aligned funders
- Publish the 2026 Fundraising Goal Stack as a public, living document with concrete milestones
Implementation Notes
- OKRs are directional beacons — not scorecards. The goal is honest, care-grounded work, not perfect metric completion.
- Qualitative evidence matters alongside numbers. If something helped someone, that counts.
- Rest is part of the work. Light weeks are not failures. They are how we stay present for what matters.
- These OKRs reflect what we’re actually doing — not what sounds impressive.
Alignment With Past OKRs
Q1 2026 named ambitious targets that we didn’t meet — not because we didn’t work, but because the work we actually did was different in shape. We built knowledge architecture, not events. We built design infrastructure, not zines. Q2 OKRs are recalibrated to match our real cadence and capacity: deep knowledge work, consistent public documentation, Cavendish Space development, and slow-and-steady financial sustainability.
The through line across all quarters: access as infrastructure, not aftercare.
Objective 1 — Expand Care & Support Infrastructure
Why this matters: Direct support and care systems are core to mission and reduce harm in real lives.
Key Results
- Distribute at least 5 care grants (e.g., aid, tech access, services) to community members
- Launch 2 new coping tools or resources on Coping and Field Guide pages
Objective 2 — Grow and Deepen Learning Pathways
Why this matters: Education grounded in lived experience reframes systems and supports community capacity building.
Key Results
- Finalize and publish 1 new learning module (e.g., Neuroqueer Learning Spaces, Cavendish Space, Ed Design)
- Host 6 Campfire Learn Together sessions focused on these modules
- Gather 10 pieces of user feedback (qualitative) to improve future editions
Objective 3 — Increase Visibility & Outreach
Why this matters: More people reached means more liberation language and more community connected to resources. (Stimpunks Foundation)
Key Results
- Grow newsletter subscription by 15%
- Deliver 8 public events (solidarity sessions, public editorial meetings, or community forums)
- Publish 5 guest articles or collaborative pieces with allied networks (e.g., education or disability justice partners)
Objective 4 — Strengthen Financial Stability
Why this matters: Sustainable funding protects care infrastructure, honors labor, and plans for long-term support.
Key Results
- Apply for 4 community-aligned grants focused on mutual aid, education, or accessibility
- Raise $3,000 in unrestricted support from individual donors
- Secure 1 funding partnership with aligned organization
Objective 5 — Build & Share Knowledge Publicly
Why this matters: Stimpunks prioritizes lived experience and open resources that challenge harmful norms and systems.
Key Results
- Publish 10 new “In Brief” entries (frameworks and models)
- Release 1 visual zine or poster collection summarizing key briefs and manifesto points
- Create a “Take a Walk in Our Shoes” interactive series for deeper engagement
Implementation Notes
- Qualitative feedback (stories, testimonials, user comments) should be collected alongside numbers for true impact reflection.
- OKRs are not about perfection; they are directional beacons to guide work rooted in care and lived reality.
- Emphasize tools that genuinely help the community survive and thrive—not just visibility metrics.
Alignment With Past OKRs
Past efforts in 2025 included fundraising, virtual events, and learning experience development. Q1 2026 builds on those foundations by scaling support infrastructure, advancing educational content, increasing reach, and stabilizing funding.
Raise $1,700 in funds and apply for 3 grants
- Apply for 3 grants
- Raise $1700 in organic and peer-to-peer donations
- Raise $500 with partners
Apply for 3 grants
100%
Raise $1700 in donations
100%
Host 13 virtual events and 24 public meetings
Host 1 conference
100%
Host 12 public operations meetings
100%
Host 12 public editorial meetings
100%
Develop 2 learning experiences
- Develop Neuroqueer Learning Spaces training
- Develop Map of Monotropic Experiences training
Develop Neuroqueer Learning Spaces training
100%
Develop Map of Monotropic Experiences training
100%
Numbers updated on June 28, 2025.
Raise $1,700 in funds and apply for 3 grants
- Apply for 3 grants
- Raise $1700 in organic and peer-to-peer donations
- Raise $500 with partners
Apply for 3 grants
33%
Raise $1700 in donations
100%
Raise $500 with partners
0%
Host 19 virtual events and 24 public meetings
- Host 9 Weekly Solidarity Sessions
- Host 9 Weekly Variety Hours
- Host 1 conference
- Host 12 public operations meetings
- Host 12 public editorial meetings
Host 9 Solidarity Sessions
100%
Host 9 Variety Hours
100%
Host 1 conference
100%
Host 12 public operations meetings
100%
Host 12 public editorial meetings
100%
Develop 2 learning experiences
- Develop Neuroqueer Learning Spaces training
- Develop Map of Monotropic Experiences training
Develop Neuroqueer Learning Spaces training
95%
Develop Map of Monotropic Experiences training
95%
Numbers updated on March 31, 2025.
Transparency Log
We default to open — not because transparency is easy, but because openness is a form of care. This log is where we share what’s happening behind the scenes: decisions, changes, setbacks, and ongoing work that usually stays hidden.
Most organizations hide context, labor, and uncertainty. We don’t. When we document what we tried, what worked, and what didn’t, we make space for collective learning, mutual accountability, and real trust.
This isn’t a polished record of outcomes. It’s a living journal of the choices we’re making, the labor involved, and the reasons behind them. You’re invited to read it, learn from it, and hold it with us — because defaulting to open means you don’t just see the finished product, you see the hands that built it.
This log is updated as events happen, not retrospectively. Entries reflect real dates and real decisions.
| Date | Activity |
|---|---|
| 2026/06/12 | Closed mutual aid grant pipeline. |
| 2026/06/11 | Issued creator grant award for Spring 2026. |
| 2026/06/04 | Closed creator grant pipeline. |
| 2026/06/01 | Opened grant pipelines. |
| 2026/04/30 | Issued mutual aid grant for April. |
| 2026/03/30 | We are now an ASAN affiliate. |
| 2026/03/24 | Spring Board Meeting |
| 2026/03/10 | We are now Candid Silver Transparency certified. |
| 2026/02/28 | Issued mutual aid grant for February. |
| 2026/02/05 | Published Fundraising transparency documents. |
| 2026/02/05 | Working on compliance with BBB Standards for Charity Accountability |
| 2026/01/19 | Closed grant pipelines |
| 2026/01/01 | Opened grant pipelines |
Next Steps for Our Community
Our work doesn’t happen in isolation — it happens alongside a community that’s also figuring things out. Here’s where we’re pointed together.
- Raise funds.
- Raise money to direct into the communities we serve.
- Create ecologies of care.
- Keep people housed, fed, and alive via our aid grants.
- Help people navigate our care systems.
- Provide warm lines and peer respite.
- Support our 4 pillars.
- Engage with Mutual Aid, Creator Grants, Learning Space, and Open Research — the four pillars that hold up everything we do.
- Explore the Pattern Library and Design Method.
- Use the Stimpunks Pattern Library to name and recognize how neurodivergent attention, energy, and experience work.
- Apply Design Recipes in classrooms, workplaces, homes, and care spaces.
- Learn the Stimpunks Design Method and the ARLES ladder: Attention → Relational → Lived Experience → Environments → Systems.
- Defend public education.
- Tell the story: Free, life-changing, and available to everyone.
- Advance progressive education.
- Work with Human Restoration Project, PINE, EALA, Autistic Realms, and others to advance progressive education.
- Continue creating why sheets to assist students, parents, and teachers with their advocacy.
- Advocate for Cavendish Space and Neuroqueer Learning Spaces.
- Tell the story: We’re raising whole children, not Frankenstein children.
- Tell the story: Henry Cavendish, Xerox PARC, and Caves, Campfires, and Watering Holes.
- Support creators.
- Grow our creator grants and bring more creators into our Discord community.
- We will need art and competency networks more than ever.
- Build community.
- Join our Discord community and show up weekly — for Solidarity Sessions, Campfire Learn Together, and Infodumplings.
- Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.
- Grow the rhizome by connecting with other cosmo-local bands of marginalized people.
- We will support each other. We will build our own ecologies of care and our own competency networks. We will build communities and network rhizomatically.
- Engage with our AI ethics framework.
- Read and apply the AI Collaboration guide — harm reduction, guardrails, and a neurodivergent frame for working with AI thoughtfully.
- Use and contribute to the glossary.
- The Stimpunks Glossary is a living knowledge infrastructure. Use it to find language, share it to spread it, and help us keep building it.
- Participate in research.
- Participatory research that aligns with community priorities and values gives us advocacy ammunition to fight back against regressive practices. Participate in studies.
- Tell stories.
- Help build a progressive storytelling ecosystem to offer an alternative to the right-wing ecosystem.
- “The pro-democracy movement needs to build its own funnel, now. It cannot and should not be a mirror image of the right’s funnel. It should be grounded in truth, not lies, and generosity, not closedness. But it needs to be a total media ecology that can meet people at any level of annoyance, curiosity, irritation, gripe, doubt, with any question — and move them toward a more humane and magnanimous view of the world.” —Anand Giridharadas
- Name the systems of power.
- Defuse resentment.
- Increase our impact.
- Consult our Impact page. Consider the things we measure. How can we make those numbers go up?
Last updated: 2026/05/03
4 Pathways
Stimpunks exists inside broken systems. We can’t fix them from the outside, and we can’t wait for them to fix themselves. So we move along four pathways at once — protecting people from immediate harm, disrupting what needs disrupting, defending what’s worth defending, and building the alternatives we need to survive and thrive. None of these pathways is optional. All four are always in motion.
These are the four directions that orient our work when systems are under pressure. Not a checklist — a compass.
We Will
This is our commitment. Not a mission statement written for funders — a declaration of what we actually do, in the language of people who live it.
We will…
- catalyse Stimpunks projects,
- coordinate neurodivergent and disabled peer support,
- document neurodivergent and disabled culture,
- conduct neurodivergent and disabled research,
- develop and deliver education based on lived experiences,
- host events that celebrate neurodivergent and disabled culture.
Problems to Keep in Mind
Every organization has questions it can’t stop thinking about. These are ours — not problems to solve and move on from, but problems to keep present, to test new ideas against, to return to. They shape what we build, what we fund, and what we refuse.
You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”
—Richard Feynman via “Forte, Tiago. Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential (p. 62). Simon Element / Simon Acumen.”
Feynman’s approach encouraged him to follow his interests wherever they might lead. He posed questions and constantly scanned for solutions to long-standing problems in his reading, conversations, and everyday life. When he found one, he could make a connection that looked to others like a flash of unparalleled brilliance.
Ask yourself, “What are the questions I’ve always been interested in?”
In the spirit of Richard Feynman’s 12 problems, here are some questions to keep in mind as we go about our business:
These are ours:
Design and knowledge infrastructure
- How do we make the Pattern Library and Design Method usable by people who aren’t already fluent in the language?
- How do we build tools that work for the people with the least capacity, not just the most?
AI and technology
- How do we use AI without reproducing the harms it encodes?
- How do we stay honest about what tools do and don’t do for neurodivergent people?
Community sustainability
- How do we raise more funds?
- How do we keep our community safe while including more people?
- How do we set boundaries to protect our mental health without being called performative?
- How do we increase community engagement in Discord and on social media?
- How do we support our 4 pillars: Mutual Aid, Creator Grants, Learning Space, Open Research?
- Who should we add to our board?
- How do we prevent burnout in a community where many members are already running on empty?
- How do we honor the labor of volunteers and contributors without exploiting it?
Systems and advocacy
- How do we help people survive the dismantling of healthcare systems and the administrative state?
- How do we resist behaviorism in education and healthcare?
Epistemic and identity
- How do we keep lived experience at the center as the organization grows?
- How do we resist the pressure to translate our work into language that makes funders comfortable but loses what matters?
Care and access
- How do we reach people who need us most but have the least capacity to find us?
- How do we build care infrastructure that doesn’t depend on any one person’s capacity?
What should we add?
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- Hoarding insight in closed systems is how people get left out. So we don't. Our bookmarks library — updated daily, freely available, default to open. https://stimpunks.org/library/bookmarks/
- Ariana Grande's Brighter Days Ahead Foundation is supporting @stimpunks.org! Their work — trans rights, mental health, grassroots care for communities the world treats as disposable — is our work. Brighter […]
- Ariana Grande's Brighter Days Ahead Foundation is supporting @stimpunks.org! Their work — trans rights, mental health, grassroots care for communities the world treats as disposable — is our work. Brighter […]
- Tonight at Infodumplings we play Penguin Pebbling — the neuro-affirming card game Helen Edgar & Ryan Boren built around the Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions. No winners. No wrong way to […]
- Tonight at Infodumplings we play Penguin Pebbling — the neuro-affirming card game Helen Edgar & Ryan Boren built around the Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions. No winners. No wrong way to […]
- Bricolage is how we work. We build understanding from what's at hand. Nothing too small. Nothing too scattered. Our living bookmarks library — gathered daily from Autistic and neurodivergent communities, […]
- The Linda Lindas just signed to Warner and dropped "Burning Out." Good moment to revisit why we built a whole piece around them — punk DIY ethos through a disability […]
- Research belongs to the people it's about. Our bookmarks library: papers, posts, threads, talks, zines, field reports — gathered from Autistic and neurodivergent communities, updated daily, free to take and […]
- Mutual aid is not charity. It is not a handout or an act of pity. Disabled people experience poverty at double the rate of nondisabled people. We wait decades for […]
- Highlander crossed racial and geographic borders. We cross neurological and embodied ones. The method transfers. Lineage. Forgetting is a tool of white supremacy. Memory is the work. https://stimpunks.org/space/highlander/
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