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Many people think about moving or at least establishing a presence in the so-called Fediverse. The Fediverse is (and this is probably a very shortened and incorrect) a collection of distributed web applications that can talk to each other. The most well known software is Mastodon, which is installed on many servers.

Pride at Work: Organizing for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Unions (1990) Click here to download the whole book as a PDF. Thirty years ago union activists Desma Holcolmb and Miriam Frank self-published Pride at Work: Organizing for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Unions, a 100-page handbook with practical advice on organizing for domestic partner benefits and grappling with the AIDS crisis at work. Today for the first time, Autostraddle and Labor Notes are making the full booklet available for free download.

This paper reports the results of a national survey in which perceptions of environmental health risks were measured for 1275 white and 214 nonwhite persons. The results showed that white women perce...

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“The label "disabled" means so much to me. It means I have community. It means I have rights. It means I can be proud. It means I can affirm myself in the face of ableists. It means I can be myself and so much more. #WhenICallMyselfDisabled”

This Viewpoint discusses the use of a strengths-based approach to define outcome measures and emphasize the unique abilities of autistic individuals in an effort to promote positive self-esteem and potentially reduce the high rates of depression and anxiety experienced by youth with autism.

This Viewpoint discusses the use of a strengths-based approach to define outcome measures and emphasize the unique abilities of autistic individuals in an effort to promote positive self-esteem and potentially reduce the high rates of depression and anxiety experienced by youth with autism.

Recognizing and aligning against tokenistic DEIJ. An education podcast from Human Restoration Project.

Dr. Naomi Fisher is a U.K.-based clinical psychologist specializing in trauma and autism. She’s the author of “Changing Our Minds: How Children Can Tak

Promoting global reciprocity by creating a communal space for zines, comics, story-driven games, and more.

I’ve been prototyping an interactive fiction engine that would allow users to create “choose your own adventure” styles of content in WordPress. Here’s a demo, which you can find live at …

Nature - RNA sequencing reveals widespread transcriptomic changes across the cerebral cortex in autism spectrum disorder, including primary sensory regions, in addition to association regions, as...

This report looks what people with a learning disability and autistic people experience when they need physical health care and treatment in hospital.

This report looks what people with a learning disability and autistic people experience when they need physical health care and treatment in hospital.

To the Editor As autistic physicians, we agree with the position of Dawson et al1: the neurodiversity movement regards autistic individuals to be both neurodivergent (diverging from the neurotypical majority) and disabled by environments not designed for autistic flourishing.1...

To the Editor As autistic physicians, we agree with the position of Dawson et al1: the neurodiversity movement regards autistic individuals to be both neurodivergent (diverging from the neurotypical majority) and disabled by environments not designed for autistic flourishing.1...

Unapologetically Black and Disabled

(without ditching your friends)

Secular storytelling has many sites for humanist action. Solarpunk, as artistic aesthetic and practical movement, imagines a better world.

The most common thing about countries that are 'successful' in PISA, is a higher level of gender equality in the population.

Can we do better than the social media that's dominated Western culture and its democracies for the past decade? CounterSocial says yes.

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The Facebook hearings. 🤦

Autisticzebra recently published a post: We do not outgrow our autism. On the surface that would seem self-evident. Even though we still know relatively little about how the brain actually works, w…

I pressed my back into the corner of the cold wall behind me, as hard as I could, hard enough to distract me from the need to twirl or flick my fingers or flap my hands, hard enough to counterbalan…

The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.