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Event on Friday 01/19/2024 ~ Name That Tune: Music Bingo!
(Dripping Springs Friendship Club) *Please RSVP… ALL AGES are welcome ~ This venue is family-friendly, and has an outdoor fenced-in play area for those that may like to vibe from afar. Bring your ID if you are age 21+ and would like to purchase your own adult beverage(s). Beerburg Brewing’s Address: 13476 Fitzhugh Road Austin, TX…
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Featured Artist: Adriel Jeremiah Wool Broadens Our Perspective on Perspective
Our featured artist is Adriel Jeremiah Wool. Adriel Jeremiah is an computer programmer with a deep background in origami and folding. This artwork is an extension of a world view involving folding; often involving higher dimensional spaces. Many of these designs contain the mathematical magic of the transcendental numbers of nature, and all of them…
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A Scrollytellying Journey Through the Rough Terrain of Lived Experience Punctuated with Art and Joy
Many revisions later… The first five pages of our website are a scrollytellying journey through the rough terrain of lived experience punctuated with spectacular art and music. Made with agony and joy, this is our story of surviving, reframing, and finding like-minded misfits. Scrollytelling is the fusion of scrolling and storytelling: a way to dynamically…
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High School Anti-Behaviourism Behaviour Management Policy
Spectrum Gaming offers an “Anti-behaviourism Behaviour Management Policy” that manages to be both thorough and concise. It’s a practical introduction to some very helpful tools for supporting neurodivergent students. We recommend it as a foundation for any school’s general MTSS (Multi-Tiered System of Supports) policy. When we say we don’t believe in rewards, punishments or…
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Octavia Butler on Positive Obsession
Octavia Butler’s “positive obsession” reminds me of special interests and monotropism. God is Change,And in the end,God prevails.But meanwhile…Kindness eases Change.Love quiets fear.And a sweet and powerfulPositive obsessionBlunts pain,Diverts rage,And engages each of usIn the greatest,The most intenseOf our chosen struggles Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler PRODIGY IS, AT ITS essence, adaptability…
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Scientism begets epistemic injustice. Syncretic traversal of semiotic domains begets epistemic justice and created serendipity.
This experimental piece leads with a very dense passage that uses specialist language from multiple semiotic domains. Terms are linked to our glossary. We fed the passage with links to AI several times and blended the output, resulting in an “unpacked” plain language version. The Passage Scientism begets epistemic injustice. Syncretic traversal of semiotic domains…
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A Neurobiological Basis for Progressive Education
As the host mentions in this excellent conversation, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s work essentially provides the neurobiological basis for progressive education. Excerpted below are selected quotes from Mary Helen Immordino-Yang’s work. In short, learning is dynamic, social, and context dependent because emotions are, and emotions form a critical piece of how, what, when, and why people…
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What Is It like to Have a Gender Identity?
🚨This is not a drill!🚨 After years in the making, my paper on GI is finally out in MIND, one of the most prestigious philosophy journals in the world, of all places. ⬇️Why this is the most important paper on gender you’ll read this week, a thread:🧵 @floral_ashes Florence Ashley published an important and useful…
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Scientism and Epistemic Injustice: On the Problems with “Science of Reading”
“Science of Reading” particularly and #ResearchEd more generally, remind many of us in neurodiversity and disability communities of this from Alfie Kohn. The underpinnings of that ideology include: a focus only on observable behaviors that can be quantified, a reduction of wholes to parts, the assumption that everything people do can be explained as a…
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We Rebuild What You Destroy: A Celebration of The Linda Lindas and Punk DIY Ethos
We were really angry, and we decided to write a song about it. The Linda Lindas Talk About “Racist, Sexist Boy” We love The Linda Lindas. We’ve been following their work since “Racist, Sexist Boy” hit big online. We include their music, lyrics, and interviews all over our website to help us tell our story…
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Love Is Everything: An Inclusion Song Featuring Nonspeaking Singers
“Love Is Everything (revisited)” by The Eddie Ray Band, featuring nonspeaking and minimally speaking singers, brings the feels and invites singing along, together. The notion of disability in our society is underscored by a bizarre conception of “independence”. It is time to celebrate our interdependence! Collaboration allows us to create genuinely safe spaces for autistic…
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It Take a Joyful Sound: New Wave, New Phrase, Neurodiversity
“Punks are outcasts from society. So are the Rastas. So they are bound to defend what we defend,” Marley concluded. Shortly thereafter, they began recording the single Punky Reggae Party, and by naming an underground social phenomenon, helped further it. Culture Clash: Bob Marley, Joe Strummer and the punky reggae party | Reggae | The…
