Stimpunks

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…

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…

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,…

Lilypad Library is a children’s show built on a simple premise: neurodivergent kids deserve to see themselves in stories written by people who actually know what that’s like. Creator Kiersten Case draws from lived experience. The show’s characters are written by and with neurodivergent people — that’s the standard. Nothing About Us Without Us (NAUWU). Stimpunks is proud to serve as their fiscal…

From 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. Throughline The Double Empathy Problem learning guide, the Penguin Pebbling game at Autistic Realms, the Watering Hole…

For our May 24 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing the Keynote by Dr. Damian Milton, delivered at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2026 annual meeting: “Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Current Empirical Evidence Relating to the Double Empathy Problem.” Friday Keynote – Damien Milton on Vimeo The Double Empathy Problem is not an abstract theory. It is a…

Disabled people are the original life hackers. We EDC (Everyday Carry) to survive. Join us to share the contents of your pockets and your bags. Share what you carry to cope, survive, and thrive. The pocket dump is a genre with an active community online — videos, subreddits, Instagram grids, whole forums devoted to photographing the contents of your pockets and your bag and explaining why each…

From 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. Throughline The /space/ ecosystem became a design system this week. McGoldrick et al. (2025) and Helen Edgar’s SPACE-TIME framework were woven through Cavendish Space and Learning Space, three new pages were…

For our May 17 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing “Therapy Is Not Neutral with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, facilitated by Iya Affo“. Therapy is not neutral. Our community can attest to that. Pretending it is neutral covers up harm. Therapy has never been separate from the world that shaped it. It carries the fingerprints of empire, whiteness, capitalism, and the historical harms…

A Thomas Dambo troll is made of what the world discarded. Old pallets. Salvaged timber. Debris from construction sites. The castoffs of a throwaway civilization, shaped into giants with hands wide enough to cradle a full-grown tree and eyes watching you from the shadows of the understory. The trolls don’t go in galleries. They go in forests. On islands. Along hiking trails where you have to…

Week 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…

Campfire Learn Together: What Makes Life Worth Wondering on Sunday, May 10 · 10AM CT For this Campfire Learn Together, we are watching philosopher Helen De Cruz talk with Robert Lawrence Kuhn about her book Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think — and thinking together about what wonder has to do with how we learn, how we survive, and why we’re here. We take wonder seriously at…

For the next edition of Infodumplings: Bring Your Muchness Down the Rabbit Hole, our curator is sharing on kintsugi — the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer, treating every fracture as part of the vessel’s history rather than a flaw to erase. The more it has broken and been repaired, the more it carries. The more it glows. The thesis: we are not broken. We are…