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How the right co-opted "meeting people where they are." And how the left can wrest it back

In the Western Educated Industrialised Rich Democratic (WEIRD) world we live in what philosopher Guy Debord described as The Society of the Spectacle. The reality presented to us via the media and …

(and wherever children are learning) Neurodiversity is the idea that different brains work differently, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, even though some

Pete Wharmby discusses autistic special interests and how they should be embraced in schools

Here’s my neurokit: things that support me as a neurodivergent person in my daily life. Share your neurokit with me and add your own 🧠🌈 #AuDHD #Autistic…

Italic and bold emphasis are information-density additives. But as Kottke observes, used deftly, hypertext links are an information-density *multiplier*.

A Personal Perspective: Gentle parenting often gets a bad rap as too permissive. But it can really help neurodivergent kids.

Psychiatry is slowly catching up with the concept of neurodiversity amongst animals, including humans, taking clues from animal biology/psychology and from the neurodiversity movement. The language…

The Case Against Grades - Alfie Kohn

How can we ignite and inspire curiosity-driven, authentic learning? Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.

Gaia is facing a metacrisis. But humanity is primarily facing a crisis of institutions and collective imagination. Many of us would be unable to recognise a healthy human scale cultural organism if…

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As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out.

The youth mental health crisis isn’t caused by one thing. It’s a million tiny things that add up. Don't let young people take it on alone.

Background: The challenges that autistic young people face when accessing support have been well documented. However, such issues may be exacerbated for autistic young people who have additional marginalized identities (e.g., being from a minority ethnic group or minority gender) compared with autistic young people who do not have additional marginalized identities. Methods: We took a participatory approach that included autistic young people with multiple marginalized identities at every stage of the research process. Our team interviewed 13 autistic young people (aged 16–25 years) who also identified with other marginalized identities. We analyzed the data using reflexive thematic analysis. Results: We generated one superordinate theme, which reflected how accessing support was perceived to be challenging for all autistic young people but especially so for this group with multiple marginalized identities. Within the superordinate theme, we generated three subthemes that provide examples of how common challenges were felt to be exacerbated for our participants. First, our participants reported difficulties in obtaining timely diagnoses, which hindered access to appropriate support services. Second, they expressed a sense of exclusion from existing support structures, with services often failing to address their unique needs. Finally, cultural and linguistic barriers meant that our participants’ parents and caregivers did not always know how to help them get support. As a result, some of our participants had to advocate for themselves. Conclusion: Our findings highlight the need for more inclusive and accessible support services that meet the diverse needs of all autistic young people, including those with multiple marginalized identities. Recommendations include offering a variety of support options to accommodate individual preferences and providing ways to empower all autistic people to advocate for their support needs.

Autistic psychiatrists’ experiences of recognising themselves and others as autistic: a qualitative study - Volume 10 Issue 6

Autistic traits are over-represented in transgender populations, and gender variance is high in autistic individuals. Furthermore, some evidence sugge…

Researchers from Stockholm University, Bocconi University, and the Rockwool Foundation have studied poverty’s lasting impact across generations in wealthy countries. By examining the United States, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany, the team found that welfare systems play a significant role in whether children born into poverty will remain poor as adults.

In this month’s research roundup, Ann Memmott picks out some of the current big debates on Autistic lives, and showcases new and important research from teams and academics working within the field.

There is limited literature on the association between parenting practices, parenting stress and externalising behaviours in autistic children. We investigated ...

The New York Times released a report today on the legislative successes and failures of President Joe Biden’s first two years in office in advance of the US midterm elections. The report emphasizes where Biden’s Democrats were able to work with Republicans to make important fiscal investments.I could not help being struck, however, with the difference between those parts of Biden’s agenda that passed and those that did not. The difference is stark if looked at it through a childist lens. It is a

The Story Massage Programme combines the benefits of positive touch with storytelling. It is an engaging sensory activity for all ages and abilities.

This article is concerned with teacher populism on social media in England. This has grown in the last 10 years, facilitated by Twitter. While it appears to be a response to challenging working condi...

Abstract During the covid-19 pandemic, online learning allowed for accommodations that were previously unavailable. However, this reconfiguration of supports did not always occur. Research centering student experience alongside the complexity of social contexts in online learning is lacking. Using Intersectional Critical Disability Studies and Queer Phenomenology, we investigate disabled students’ experiences with online learning. Interviews with secondary and postsecondary students reveal that online schooling reinforced barriers and hindered full inclusion and support. The pandemic emphasized the feelings of insignificance of their education, restricting their societal roles. Disabled students in this study relied on individual relationships and support to navigate their schooling. Using the concepts of inheritance/disinheritance to explore how the shift to online learning further affected secondary students with disabilities, this paper argues that the changes functioned primarily to protect the non-disabled and perpetuate ablebodiedness, thereby placing access further out of reach and thus entrenching limitations to dreaming past barriers.

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60 years ago, the future died. This is its story. Visit https://patreon.com/JoseMariaLuna to support the channel! For one time tips, you can do so via https://paypal.me/josemld or https://venmo.com/u/JoseMLuna Not sure anybody's interested, but here's the Google Doc with all my research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ppYDnIBMVtCzRLNlj_Gw0NmBjpfqwmJOaQAhcjrPj3s/edit?usp=sharing Featuring the voice talents of! Avelo @DreamsoundsVideo William White Simón Gómez https://open.spotify.com/track/1IuQ4xXjKKSTAwZebmd6qQ?si=4f6da8b1d4e5408f Caelan Conrad @caelanconrad Sam Richardson https://pestcontrol.transistor.fm/ Sarah and Neil from @TheLeftistCooks Zack Paslay @ZackPaslay Hoots @hootsyoutube Bothered Boy @BotheredBoy Rachel Duncan @ rachellacroixs on Twitter Skyler Queen @ SkylerQueen91 on Twitter ____________________________________ SECTIONS 0:00 - Intro: Remember the Future 5:05 - Part 1: The Wonderful Twentieth Century 20:03 - Part 2: Camelot 37:37 - Part 3: This Machine Kills Futures 57:35 - Part 4: The City of Tomorrow 1:10:42 - Part 5: Tomorrow, Today 1:28:07 - Part 6: So, What Comes Next? ____________________________________ SOURCES BOOKS -Corn, Joseph J. and Horrigan, Brian. “Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future” -Remembering the Future: The New York World's Fair from 1939 to 1964 --Rosenblum, Robert. “Remembrance of Fairs Past” --Dickstein, Morris. “From the Thirties to the Sixties: The World’s Fair in its Own Time” --Miller, Marc H. “Something for Everyone: Robert Moses and the Fair” --Reave, Sheldon J. “New Frontiers: Science and Technology at the Fair” --Haag Bletter, Rosemarie. “The “Laissez-Fair,” Good Taste, and Money Trees: Architecture at the Fair” --Harrison, Helen A. “Art for the Millions, or Art for the Market?” --Sheppard, Ileen. “Icons and Images: The Cultural Legacy of the Fair” -Tirella, Joseph. “Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World's Fair And The Transformation Of America” -Hahn, Don. “Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Disney’s Magical Mid-Century” -Gabler, Neal “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination” -Beard, Richard R. “Walt Disney’s EPCOT Center” -Magolis, Jon ”The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964 - The Beginning of the Sixties” -Caro, Robert. "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" -Jacobs, Jane. “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” -Krenak, Ailton. “Ideas to Postpone the End of the World” -Krenak, Ailton. “Futuro Ancestral” -Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. “La Mirada del Jaguar” -Rivera Cusicanqui, Silvia. "Un Mundo Chi’xi es Posible” SPEECHES -Baker, Ella. "Mississippi Democratic Freedom Movement Convention Speech" -García Márquez, Gabriel. "The Solitude of Latin America" -Kennedy, John F. "1960 Democratic National Convention Address" -Wallace, Henry A. "The Century of the Common Man" PUBLICATIONS -Stross, Charlie. Charlie's Diary, "We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus" (November 10, 2023) https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html FILM -20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) dir. Richard Fleischer, Walt Disney Studios -Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956) dir. Fred F. Sears, Columbia Pictures -E.P.C.O.T. (1967) dir. Arthur J. Vitarelli, Walt Disney Studios -Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) dir. Henry Levin, 20th Century Fox -Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) dir. David Hand, Walt Disney Studios -Steamboat Willie (1928) dir. Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney Studios -The Three Caballeros (1944) dir. Norman Ferguson , Walt Disney Studios -The Time Machine (1960) dir. George Pal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -Le Voyage Dans la Lune (1902) dir. Georges Méliès, Star Film Company -War of the Worlds (1953) dir. Byron Haskin, Paramount Pictures SHOWS -The Imagineering Story (2019) --"The Happiest Place on Earth" --"What Would Walt Do?" -SpongeBob SquarePants --"SB-129" -Walt Disney’s Disneyland (1955) --"The Disneyland Story" --"Davy Crocket Indian Fighter" --"Man in Space" -Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color --"Disneyland at the World's Fair VIDEOS -Couldn't fit all this in the description, so here's a list of YouTube videos I used as archival footage: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rp1gZ5QgaZts1M4QHWa6uYTa3BHkPQ7vFxEg8fdZzlk/edit?usp=sharing MUSIC -Malt Shop Bop by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100496 Artist: http://incompetech.com/