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The BASE facilitates community connection by providing members a safe physical space to engage, and also access to a private social platform where they’ll find the peer offered group schedule, resources, local happenings, and discussions. The Base also promotes self advocacy through support for members to facilitate experiences around their own strengths and interests.
We believe the word inclusive, splattered across PR copy, has no room in a city that is not yet so. Like, we love her...but she's not there yet.
We believe real action can be taken to create true community and belonging rather than redundant descriptions of intentions that perpetuate the assumed existence of an ideal that is clearly yet to be achieved. As community members we saw the opportunity to create real impact through bolstering an already blossoming annual summer Pride festival. READ MORE HERE.
Lost in Translation, Found in Understanding
"There was a time when you didn’t know how to explain yourself. You didn’t lack intelligence; the language you needed was kept from you.
You were left to fumble through conversations that drained you, endure touches that felt like fire, and swallow reactions that made perfect sense in your body but no sense to anyone else.
So you learned the art of imitation. Mirroring their expressions, echoing their words, hoping no one would notice you were lost.
You weren’t just misjudged, you were erased in real time, over and over, until you questioned if you even existed the way you felt you did.
And then, one day, you found the words."
Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People
Stimpunks combines “stimming” + “punks” to evoke open and proud stimming, resistance to normalization, and the DIY culture of punk, disabled, and neurodivergent communities. Instead of hiding our stims, we bring them to the front.