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Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People

My pride’s a riot, it’s not a parade. My pride's a riot, not a parade. This Autistic Pride Day arrives ornery. The right to live in community is being dismantled on every front at once — behaviorism rebranded as care, eugenics said out loud, the institution waiting at the end of every cut. Neuronormative domination is the key problem of our time, and it is coming for us as queer, neurodivergent, and disabled people on all fronts. We're tired. So very tired. Spoken about, written over, pathologized — flattened into checklists and outcomes, drowned out even during Pride Month. And still we choose to live proudly. It is deeply subversive to live proudly while the world soaks us in shame. The closet can only stop you from being seen. It is not shame-proof. Neither are we. So this year, I'm going to shake it off. Get down. It's hootenanny time....

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 24 2026: From the Threshold to the Frontline, From Converging Toward to Refusing to Consent From 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....

Community Living Is Being Dismantled on Every Front at Once The right of disabled people to live in their own communities is being taken apart. Not in one place, and not by one ruling. On both sides of the Atlantic — through courts, through budgets, through quiet rule changes that never make the news — the systems that let disabled people stay in their homes are being pulled down at the same time. This is not a series of accidents. It is a direction....

Campfire Learn Together: Free for All — A People’s History of the Public Library For our June 14, 2026, Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Free for All: The Public Library — Dawn Logsdon's documentary tracing how the most trusted, least controversial institution in American life became a battleground in the culture wars, and how it got built in the first place. Not by one hero. By a movement of thousands of unsung ones, most of whose names we never learned....

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 23 2026: From the Work to the Way In, From Coded Out to Built For From 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.... https://stimpunks.org/2026/06/08/stimpunks-org-changelog-for-week-23-2026-from-the-work-to-the-way-in-from-coded-out-to-built-for/

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.... https://stimpunks.org/2026/06/03/stimpunks-monthly-newsletter-may-2026-from-framework-to-fabric-from-survival-to-belonging-from-the-maps-we-drew-to-the-paths-you-wear/

Stimpunks.org Changelog for Week 22 2026: From the Maps We Drew to the Paths You Wear, From Prescription to Desire Lines From 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....

Campfire Learn Together: Lines of Flight in the Classroom

For our May 31 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Ian Buchanan’s “Lines of Flight in the Classroom” — a lecture applying Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of lines of flight to the classroom as a social assemblage. Lines of Flight in the Classroom – YouTube Lines of flight are not a theory of freedom. They are a theory of trajectories — of how desire flows through…

Write a Neurodivergent Collaboration Manual

Much collaboration fails before it starts. Not because people don’t care. Not because the work isn’t good. Because the default assumption built into most working environments is that everyone processes, communicates, and participates the same way. That assumption is wrong, and neurodivergent people pay the highest price for it. A collaboration manual is one way to change that. What a…

Infodumplings: Celebrating Libraries with Lilypad Library

Libraries are the closest thing we have to a place that is simply for you. No purchase required. No performance of need. You are a patron, not a customer. You walk in and the shelves are there, the quiet is there, the librarian is there, and the only rule is that you brought yourself. For neurodivergent people who have spent their lives performing acceptable personhood in order to access spaces,…

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