Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman
What forces shape how we treat those deemed cognitively different? asks Jonathan Purkis, reviewing Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman
Open Society
The Normal Ones
The "weird" discourse. Those who insist to be seen as exclusively normal, and to use their normalcy to define everyone else's identity. White Christian supremacy, bullying, and other perversions more and more of us are done with.
Neurodivergent nervous systems and sensitivity profiles
Our individually unique nervous systems and sensitivities develop and evolve over the course of our lives. 85% of neurodivergent adults often or always feel overwhelmed and misunderstood, and over …
It is only within nurturing, small ecologies of care beyond the human, that we can (re)discover our faith in humanity and our faith in the healing powers of the big cycle of life, which is far beyond human comprehensibility.
‘Weird’ And The Breaking of The Fascist Fever
One word to break the fascist fever. One word to deflate the power Trump and his cronies think they have.
What caused the listeria outbreak? A Baltimore grocery store held the answer.
As people fell sick, scientists from Maryland discovered listeria was the cause of a nationwide outbreak by testing Boar’s Head deli meat at a Baltimore grocery store.
Autism In The Media | Discover Diverse Autistic Characters in Film & TV
Dive into movies and TV shows that portray the true diversity of autism. Discover characters beyond the typical white male savant trope and celebrate authentic representation across genders and backgrounds.
AAA: COVID-19 has lasting deadly impact on traffic safety
Residents in Cottage Grove, Lane County, and across Oregon are learning that that even though the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, it has left a lasting deadly impact on traffic safety
Retailers Locked Up Their Products—and Broke Shopping in America
CVS, Target and other chains have barricaded everything from toiletries to cleaning supplies. It’s backfired in almost every way.
Opinion | There are no trans women at the Paris Olympics. So bigots manufactured them.
The true story is much more complex than can be explained clearly in a handful of rage tweets.
Long Covid Defined | NEJM
Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine describe
the process and rationale for the development of the 2024 definition of persistent
Covid-19 symptoms (long Covid).
The Indomitable Covid Virus
How to respond without denialism or complacency
Academic Ableism: Fighting for Accommodations and Access in Higher Education
Academic Ableism: Fighting for Accommodations and Access in Higher Education Krys Méndez Ramírez Six years ago, when I first started applying to graduate school programs as someone wi…
Weirdness and the Right
At the time of writing, the USA’s Democratic Party has recently hit on a new line of attack against their far right opponents (Trump…
A Report from Occupied Territory
These things happen, in all our Harlems, every single day. If we ignore this fact, and our common responsibility to change this fact, we are sealing our doom.
Transphobia Hurts Everybody
It's a weapon used to build the fascist movement
Quantum Neuro-Holographic Thoughts from a Liminal Space
Holographic people in woodlands with overlay of rhizomatic constellation network
David Gray-Hammond | The burnout to psychosis cycle- community knowledge that desperately needs to make it's way into academic… | Instagram
532 likes, 30 comments - emergentdivergence on August 2, 2024: "The burnout to psychosis cycle- community knowledge that desperately needs to make it's way into academic literature #BurnoutToPsychosisCycle #AutisticBurnout #ADHDBurnout #AuDHDBurnout #ActuallyAutistic #autism #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #neurodiversity #neurospicy #neurodivergent #LearnOnReels".
Defining the Flow—Using an Intersectional Scientific Methodology to Construct a VanguardSTEM Hyperspace
#VanguardSTEM is an online community and platform that centers the experiences of women, girls, and non-binary people of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. We publish original and curated content, using cultural production, to include a multiplicity of identities as worthy of recognition and thus redefine STEM identity and belonging. #VanguardSTEM is rooted firmly in Queer, Black feminisms which delineate that the experiences and critiques of Black women matter and that these insights can foster a restorative and regenerative construction of the cultures in which we exist. In describing how #VanguardSTEM descended from counterspaces, we draw on speculative fiction to define a #VanguardSTEM hyperspace as a fluid “place-time” that is born digital and enabled by social media, but materializes in the physical world for specific purposes. As Black women in STEM, we consider how our situated knowledges and scientific expertise inform our process. We propose an intersectional scientific methodology to address the influence of embodied observation, embedded context and collective impact on scientific inquiry. Through #VanguardSTEM, we assert, without apology, the right of Black, Indigenous, women of color and non-binary people of color to self-advocate by fully representing ourselves and our STEM identities and interests, without assimilation.
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Corporal Thinking
Recent research suggests that the body is the brain. The part between our ears is not in charge.
Nonconscious Acquisition of Information
Chronic Pain and Treatment Decisions
Pride of Dripping Springs | ❤️🌈 | Instagram
24 likes, 0 comments - prideofdripping on August 1, 2024: "❤️🌈".
The Great Shoplifting Freak-Out
Why is it so hard to figure out if America’s enormous surge in theft is real?
Retailers Locked Up Their Products—and Broke Shopping in America
CVS, Target and other chains have barricaded everything from toiletries to cleaning supplies. It’s backfired in almost every way.
Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability Authorities | Resources
Cultural Autism Studies at Yale
Welcome to CASY! Join us to explore, define, generate, record and preserve autistic culture. The CASY program (originally Community Autism Socials) was started in 2014 by Dr Roger Jou of the Yale…
Because autistic culture is a unique phenomenon, it is constantly in the process of exploring itself, defining itself, and generating itself. Unlike holistic (non-autistic) culture, it is deeply relational. For many autistic people there is no strict boundary between self and environment, or self and other. We tend not to see things in hierarchies, but in relational ways that are in constant flux. “Neuro-Holographic” is an emergent idea that our group has embraced. Neuro-Holographic, as a concept here, refers to the idea that every small bit of energy and information, whether an atom or the universe, reflects every other part of itself in a seamless and meaningful way.
This has led to the awareness that, despite common misconceptions, we are very much empathetically connected to the things around us. Because our sensing mechanisms are super sensitive and often synesthetic (cross-sensing — for example, tasting colors or seeing sound) we often feel a part of the things around us. We don’t tend to see in hierarchies, but rather in “holograms,” as described. Always looking for connecting patterns in an overwhelming ocean of sensory, emotional, and energetic information, our relational culture focuses on how things go together and function. Because of these innate talents, insights, and a tendency toward invention, out of the box thinking, and an enthusiasm for combining patterns, autistic/Neuro-Holographic people have been responsible for many important developments in the larger cultures in which they find themselves. Being extraordinarily sensitive and seeing things in new ways is foundational to autistic culture.
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO "NO MORE WATER: THE GOSPEL OF JAMES BALDWIN" - Blue Note Records
By Shannon J. Effinger The prescience of James Baldwin is alive nearly forty years after his passing, a testament to his enduring impact. A prolific writer, his essays, novels, plays, and poetry have assessed and often reproached the human condition. As an activist, his oratory prowess in the 1960s was bar none, lending his outspoken […]
“Raise The Roof” features Chin sans accompaniment as the intensity of her words captures the stark and harrowing reality of the pervasive racism we cannot seem to escape: “It must be in the fucking water being force-fed to the police, the prosecutor and the politicians who care nothing for Black bodies falling like leaves in late August…in Ferguson…in Cleveland…in Staten Island, only minutes away from where my own child sits, watching The Muppets take over Manhattan.”
Raise The Roof
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupRaise The Roof · Meshell NdegeocelloTravel℗ Blue Note Records; ℗ 2024 Meshell Ndegeocello, under exclusive licens...