This is amazing news.

Were you unable to attend our first Community of Practice? Fear not! Check out a video of the gathering (featuring Associate Professor of Music Adeline Mueller) below! www.musicdisabilitystudies.org/blog/communi...

Big News: I am running for Oakwood City Council. I love this city and our community, I love advocating for folks, and I love creative problem solving. I want to bring all of this to our city council this November!

With thanks to @lauriestras.bsky.social - my Sunday is definitely better for this!

Fun fact: Jim Sinclair is also one of the founders of the Neurodiversity movement. I truly cannot stress how trans and queer autistic people have been basically forever.

With the R-word slur making an unfortunate and appalling comeback, we created a glossary page outlining the history and impact of the word. stimpunks.org/glossary/r-w...

I read the piece. As a historian, my considered opinion is that you journalists, as a group, should stop writing about pronatalism in the 21st century, if you do not know enough about the histories of natalism, race science, and eugenics.

When you or your kid is diagnosed as autistic, almost all of the professional advice you get from education and healthcare is steeped in deficit ideology and the pathology paradigm. There is a better way. stimpunks.org/pathways/aut...

Come join us!!

in case you missed the outcome of the canceled military band concert with the young musicians from Equity Arc: A lot people stepped up--including military band veterans and the Strathmore in MD--and they're going to be on CBS tomorrow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0-D...

The @amsdismus.bsky.social announces a call for presentations at our sponsored session at the national AMS Meeting in Minneapolis, MN on November 6-9, 2025. Details at www.musicdisabilitystudies.org/blog/cfp-mus... Please boost! #Musicology #AccessIntimacy #DisabilityCulture

Stimpunks is a DIY humanizing rebellion. Stimpunks’ work is expansive, beautiful, liberating. Stimpunks is a treasure trove of everything important to the neurodivergent and disabled community. Stimpunks is the best autism resource on the planet.

It's the least we can do. And then do one more little thing. If you're participating tomorrow in the 24-hour economic boycott, be sure to make it known. On "Choose Democracy"'s wonderfully helpful site, click on "Boycott Central" in the menu and click on the blue button to be counted.

Boosting again - we’ve gotten quite a few excellent responses. Do we have yours yet? We’re getting ready to make some plans… #Disability #Musicology

A new BlueSky presence for the AMS Music and Disability Study Group — and a very important survey to help us launch a Community of Practice beyond the Study Group itself. Please fill out and boost! #MusicAndDisability #Musicology #Accessibility #DisabilityStudies

everything is awful. so hoping this brings some cheer: Open in Emergency is officially open access!! all pieces--the hacked Asian American DSM, Asian American Tarot, daughter to mother letters, PPD pamphlet, tapestry of unwellness--now available on my website. ❤️ www.mimikhuc.com/projects/ope...

My first post here definitely has to be Tendril Theory, because when I made this in 2015 I had no idea how often it would be ripped off. Tell your friends and your enemies to tag me please 😂

Always excellent insight from @epballou.bsky.social

chavisory.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/t... Some things I think it’s important to understand are simultaneously true...

These are the men and women destroying the United States government agency-by-agency. They must be held to account. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Very much this.

I'M WORRIED ABOUT THE FACT THAT ELON MUSK HAS GAINED ACCESS TO TREASURY PAYMENT SYSTEMS.

There is no such thing as “no gender ideology.” Gender is an idea that everyone thinks about it as soon as they are aware of it (consciously or subconsciously). Trying to enforce one way of thinking about gender is basically admitting that IT IS A CONSTRUCT.

What are diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging? What are their narrative adversaries? We provide a glossary of terms below. Follow the links for deeply sourced reference materials. stimpunks.org/2025/01/30/d...

What's that? You think this was intellectual property theft? Sorry, but I'm out of sufficient supplies of irony to process that correctly . . .

A new BlueSky presence for the AMS Music and Disability Study Group — and a very important survey to help us launch a Community of Practice beyond the Study Group itself. Please fill out and boost! #MusicAndDisability #Musicology #Accessibility #DisabilityStudies

My article on sensory deprivation and the so-called Ploutonian at Eleusis has been published! This is a deeply personal and vulnerable article - establishing a route into Sensory Archaeology as an Autistic researcher. I’m very proud of it. #ClassicsBluesky

Absolutely magnificent essay. The author, @elliemackinroberts.net , has offered to send PDFs to folks who don’t have access — @lauriestras.bsky.social kindly provided me with one. Truly a model of simultaneously embodied and erudite scholarship and page-turner historiography.

I’ve started using udm14.com more often for Google searching, and wow is it nice to avoid the ads and AI dreck.

#MutualAid offers us a simple guide for navigating the permacrisis era: 1-help people in crisis 2-tackle underlying causes of crises

The new Critical Design Lab monthly newsletter AND the new episode of our podcast Contra* will both be coming out tomorrow. Check out both on our website, recently re-designed by disabled designer Jessica Oddi: www.criticaldesignlab.com

And also: We should not be creating an ableist climate that leads people to see nonsense claims about telepathy as the only available way to affirm their nonspeaking child’s humanity.

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025 [with thanks to @musicologist.bsky.social for the image and @matthewborus.bsky.social for the OP boost, if his image hadn’t been a new download it would have been very tempting]

Such an important essay - food deserts are a creation of Reagan administration policies to weaken enforcement of established antitrust regulations. I didn’t know this. Imagine a politician running explicitly on this kind of bread and butter issue…

A most excellent review of a most excellent book.

Looking forward to launching my new website soon. A far more accessible site to access all my resources, free ebooks, blogs & a new neuroaffirming training programme for schools &professionals launching with Tracy Jones in 2025! Focus: Monotropism Burnout Education www.autisticrealms.com

This cohort does amazing work. Read them. Support them. ❤️

Priorities When Cultivating Critical AI Literacy - a thought and many resources blog.mahabali.me/educational-...

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

Puts a new spin on “history is written by the victors.” And yes.

Some stats, so far: - Number of mutual aid grants: 102 - Amount of mutual aid grants: $63,850 - Number of creator grants: 11 - Amount of creator grants: $33,000 - Amount of all grants: $96,850 - Number of web pages published: 1,266

Sameness-based “equity” is a major obstacle to DEIB work. Instead, we advocate for needs-based equity and collaborative niche construction.

Reminder, once you process, and laugh, because it IS hysterical, remember: The tragicomedy of it all is intended to destabilize us. While we ask, "How can they be serious?" they will dismantle institutions. The grass is still green and the sky is still blue. Remember who you are.

We have a lot of work to do in the USA (and everywhere) to combat what’s coming. Care systems will be attacked. We must build a counterculture of care. Care work makes all other work possible. Here are some next steps for our community at Stimpunks.

Diane Coleman, one of the biggest voices in secular disabled opposition to assisted suicide in the US, died over the weekend. I had the honor of interviewing her about her life’s work last year for a @19thnews.bsky.social @thenation.com partnership.

Here are the three questions that help me navigate chaos: 1. What is my desired outcome? 2. What do I need? 3. What can I offer? I put them in writing and TRY to speak them to a couple of other humans. FWIW. ❤️

Anyway here’s what I wrote. We have much smaller audience than network TV, so.

brb need to go scream into the uncaring void forever

So my friends, thank you for your support and especially for your pets! You are all marvellous and I apologise for amplifying such a negative experience. But… if anything positive can come from this, make it a greater familiarisation with the Committee on Publication Ethics. 1/ publicationethics.org