Stimpunks combines “stimming” + “punks” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to neurotypicalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent communities. Instead of hiding our stims, we bring them to the front.
Everything that was normally supposed to be hidden was brought to the front.
Source: Punk subculture – Wikipedia
We are neurodivergent and disabled philanthropists and consultants specializing in neurodiversity, disability, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We can help you and your organization become equity literate digital sociologists in touch with the communities you serve. We do this while fulfilling our mission to “pay neurodivergent and disabled creators and amplify them to our clients and throughout society.”
“The price of relevance is fluency.” Are you fluent?
And in fact, that’s the simple price of continued cultural relevance. If someone wants to maintain power in culture, all that’s required is a sincere and honest engagement with those who are granting that power through their attention and support. All it takes is a little bit of curiousity and some basic human decency, and any of us who are blessed with the good fortune to have a platform will get to keep it, and hopefully to use it to make things a little better for others.
Source: The price of relevance is fluency
The speed of change outside an organization now favors the leader who explores, monitors the periphery, and extends the field of vision for the entire organization.
Source: The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation
Just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.
Source: Toni Morrison Talks Love