nth-dimensional oppression

social justice, maths, fandom, shitposting hannah: spoonie, nerd and queer, she/he/they i guess

[whtaft]

I do love the idea that in a hundred years, scholars will be citing stuff on ao3 as the “early works” of the next generation of canon authors.

[whtaft]

“Her fascination with themes of isolation and identity can first be spotted in Tits and Cap, an erotic fanfiction written at age 19.”

[whtaft]

“In this “coffee shop alternative universe” – a reinterpretation of an existing work wherein the characters work at a coffee shop – her characters work at an independently-owned shop at odds with the chain coffee shop that is built across the street. Her attention to the capitalist-driven labor struggles of the characters within the love story show early an early attention to the major anti-capitalist themes of her seminal work.”

[fidgetcubist]

Autistic Voices: A Masterpost

Here is a list of resources about autism, with a focus on actually autistic voices, divided by topic. You will find articles, websites, videos, Youtube channels, etc., most of them created by autistic people. If there are resources you would like to contribute to this post, or if you have other suggestions, don’t hesitate to let me know.

What is autism?

Nick Walker: What is autism?

Autistic Self Advocacy Network: About Autism

Autisticality: Inclusive autistic traits

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: What is Autism?

Neurodiversity

Identity-First Autistic: The Neurodiversity Paradigm

Nick Walker: Neurodiversity: some basic terms and definitions

Nick Walker: The Neurodiversity Paradigm and the Path of Self-Liberation

Nick Walker: Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm

Elisabeth Wiklander: Neurodiversity — the key that unlocked my world

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: What is Neurodiversity

Identity-first language vs person-first language

Autistic Self Advocacy Network: Identity-First Language

Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Person First Language

Autistic Hoya: The Significance of Semantics: Person-First Language: Why It Matters

Social model of disability vs medical model of disability

Identity-First Autistic: Understanding Disability Models

Autistic Hoya: You are not a burden.

Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Models of Disability Discourse

Nathan Selove: Creating A Social Model of Autism Ari Ne’eman at Emory University: Autism and the Disability Community: The Politics of Neurodiversity, Causation and Cure

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #16: Is Autism a Disability?

Functioning labels

Identity-First Autistic: Identity-First Autistic’s stance on ‘functioning labels’

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: What about Functioning Labels? 

autisticliving: What’s Wrong with Functioning Labels? A Masterpost.

Nathan Selove: Autistic ACTUALLY Speaking: High Functioning versus Low Functioning

AUTISTIC WEREWOLF: WHY LABELS EXPECIALLY HIGH & LOW FUNCTIONING AUTISM IS ARE A LOAD OF CRAP! (cw: use of the R-word)

Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: The Problems with Functioning Labels

Autistic women

Reese Piper: ‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Day-To-Day Struggle For Autistic Women

Fabienne Cazalis: The women who don’t know they’re autistic

Aspergers from the Inside: Female Diagnosis and Self-Advocacy with Geraldine Robertson

Purple Ella: DIFFERENCES AUTISTIC BOYS AND GIRLS

Seventh Voice: The Gas-lighting of Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum

  Suicide

AutisticNomad: Speaking to Suicidal Autistics

Science Daily: Coventry University: People with Autism at Greater Risk of Attempting Suicide

Dan Jones: Autism: Diagnosis Saved My Life

Empathy

Rebecca Brewer and Jennifer Murphy for Spectrum News: People with autism can read emotions, feel empathy

Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Empathy

Luna Lindsey: Double-Standards: The Irony of Empathy and Autism

Intersectional Neurodiversity: New Research Suggests Social Issues Are Down to Neurotypicals More than Autistics

Self-advocacy

Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Self Advocacy

Amythest Schaber: Autistics Speaking: Self-Advocacy in a Culture of Cure

Autistic Hoya: What is Self-Advocacy?

Executive function

Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Executive Functioning Problems: A Frustrating Aspect of Being Autistic

Reese Piper: ‘I Thought I Was Lazy’: The Invisible Day-To-Day Struggle For Autistic Women

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #25: What is Executive Functioning?

Aspergers from the Inside: Executive Function (a response to Ask an Autistic)

Purple Ella: AUTISM AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

Special interests

Musings of an Aspie: What’s So Special About a Special Interest?

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #13 - What are Special Interests?

Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Autism and Intense Interests: Why We Love What We Love and Why It Should Matter to You

Stimming

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #1 - What is Stimming?

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic: Living Atypically - Self-Injurious Stims

The Artism Spectrum: Stimming 101, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Stim

The Artism Spectrum: The Dark Side of the Stim: Self-injury and Destructive Habits

Meltdowns

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #15 - What are Autistic Meltdowns?

Unstrange Mind: The Protective Gift of Meltdowns

Purple Ella: DEALING WITH MELTDOWNS

Shutdowns

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #20 - What are Autistic Shutdowns?

Unstrange Mind: Autistic Shutdown Alters Brain Function

Passing

AUTISTIC WEREWOLF: ANOTHER WAY AUTISTIC WEREWOLVES HIDE IN THIS NEUROTYPICAL WORLD!

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #2 - What is Passing?

Autistic burnout

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #3 - What is Autistic Burnout?

Musings of an Aspie: Autistic Regression and Fluid Adaptation

Autisticality: Burnout

Autism Information Library: “Help! I seem to be Getting More Autistic!”

Inertia

Autisticality: Inertia

Divergent Minds: A Look at Autistic Inertia

Alexithymia

Unstrange Mind: Alexithymia: I Don’t Know How I Feel

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #27: What is Alexithymia?

What not to say to an autistic person

Autistic Hoya: 15 Things You Should Never Say To An Autistic

Radical Neurodivergence Speaking: What to say, and not to say, to an autistic adult

Nathan Selove: Top 5 Well Meaning Things People Should Stop Saying to Autistics

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #12 - What Shouldn’t I Say to Autistic People?

StimNation: S#!T Ignorant People Say to Autistics

Actually Autistic: 10 Things Not To Say To Autistic People

BBC Three: Things Not To Say To An Autistic Person

Autism and people of color

The Autism Wars - Mrs. Kerima Çevik‘s blog

Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Black and Autistic – Is There Room at the Advocacy Table?

Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Autistic, Gifted, And Black: An Interview With Mike Buckholtz

Autistic Hoya: I, too, am racialized.

AUTISTIC WEREWOLF: AUTISM: Growing Up BLACK In A NEUROTYPICAL Legal System!

Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Interview Anthony Adams

@nyarutheve - Twitter account

Autism and LGBT+

Maxfield Sparrow: Autism and Gender Variance: Is There a Cause for the Correlation?

Alex Forshaw: The Intersection of Autism and Gender

Evil Autie: Being Trans in Autistic Space

AutisticNomad - Maxfield Sparrow’s Youtube channel

Non-speaking autistic voices

Amy Sequenzia: Non-speaking, “low-functioning”

Amy Sequenzia: “Autism Awareness Month” Awareness

Non-Speaking Autistic Speaking - Amy Sequenzia’s blog

Mel Baggs: In My Language

Mel Baggs: Don’t ever assume autism researchers know what they’re doing

Mel Baggs: Captioned Reply to GRASP/Autism Speaks Articles

Lysik'an: You don’t speak for Low-functioning autistics

Deej - documentary film

Sue Rubin’s website

Autism $peaks/Light It Up Blue/Puzzle Piece

The Caffeinated Autistic: New Autism Speaks Masterpost (Updated 4/4/17)

The Caffeinated Autistic: Autism Speaks *still* does not speak for me

Autistic Anthro: Enough with the Puzzle Pieces

Autistic Anthro: Autism Awareness Month

Amythest Schaber: Ask an Autistic #6 - What’s Wrong With Autism Speaks

Nathan Selove: Autism ACTUALLY Speaking: Lighting Up Blue

John Elder Robinson: I Resign My Roles at Autism Speaks

Autistic Hoya: Co-Opting the Movement: Autism Speaks, John Elder Robinson, and Complicity in Oppression

Autistic Hoya: Responding to Autism Speaks

Mel Baggs: Captioned Reply to GRASP/Autism Speaks Articles

Amy Sequenzia: “Autism Awareness Month” Awareness

When autism parents don’t listen

Jim Sinclair: Don’t Mourn For Us

Autistic Hoya: They keep publishing these violent articles

Autistic Hoya: Why we must #BoycottToSiri / An open letter to Judith Newman

Amythest Schaber: #BoycottToSiri

Susie Rodarme: An Open Letter to HarperCollins about TO SIRI WITH LOVE

Kaelan Rhywiol: Why I Believe ‘To Siri With Love’ By Judith Newman Is A Book That Does Incredible Damage To The Autistic Community

Aaron Kappel: When You’re Autistic, Abuse Is Considered Love

Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism: Autism Uncensored: A Dangerous and Spirit-Crushing Book

Service dogs and autism

Nathan Selove: Service Dog Tales

In French

Super Pépette - Julie Dachez’s Youtube channel

La Fille Pas Sympa - Julia March’s blog

[nyxtheautisticbean]

Have I reblogged this before? Whatever, hitting that button again. 😁

[cooperhoward]

[davostating]

hectorescaton:

At first I wanted to kill him. But now I’m glad I’ve spent the time to get to know him. Yeah, of course he looks delicious with his big red cheeks. But we’ve all got an agreement that we’re not going to eat Stu. Right? Right.

[zombeesknees]

#this is even funnier considering that Stu irl was not even an actor and in fact an actual IT specialist who thought he was  #going out for a job  #and somehow they convinced him to be a part of this movie

[shakypalms-deactivated20180313]

Oh man, that’s the cherry on top.

[diebrarian]

Stu Rutherford created a new stroby light technology that Waititi used in Thor: Ragnarok! That gorgeous bit in Valkyrie’s backstory? He and his friend Carlo van de Roer designed that lighting.

HE’S GIVEN US SO MUCH.

[lady-feral]

I’m glad they didn’t eat Stu.

[oneimpossiblethingbeforenoon]

Daredevil: wait, do you hear that?

Hawkeye, having not charged his hearing aid in weeks: I don’t know Matt, do you see that?!

[pr1nceshawn]

Life With Dogs.

[demon-hex]

[ @manduhs-things | @maireadgreum | @devilsdaughter2 ]

[regalgorgon]

My Rottweiler does the pillow and blanket thing and it’s adorable.

[corvidprompts]

“You’re such a complete disaster.” groans the villain, scooping the unconscious hero off the sidewalk “Like, holy hell, how does anyone let you out of their sight. Stop picking fights with people you aren’t ready for.”

[wolfsrainrules]

I like it

[airoz]

井口病院♡うさぎは正義さんのツイート: “ニホンウサミミチョウの観察絵日記 https://t.co/fxDiwbPuuK”

[artemisia-at-salamis]

New level of #academicdrama

This dude just called himself out in his own footnotes???

“Notoriously complacent in this regard is Freudenberg (1993).”

……but you *are* Freudenberg (1993) even though you’ve Evolved into Freudenberg (2001).

[sagittairy]

[complex-variable]

Classic Tegmark

[nochiquinn]

I feel like the line between “fluffy uwu self care” and “get your shit together self care” is thinner than people seem to think. Like, sitting in a quiet space with a book and maybe some twinkly fairy lights gives me the spoons to go call my damn doctor like I’ve been meaning to. Bath bombs or shower steamers make me feel content and/or sparkly, which gives me confidence to go out in public. (Plus, I bathed.) I dye my hair funky colors so if I feel like people are staring at me I can say it’s at that instead of whatever my anxiety wants it to be. 

The two are not mutually exclusive, is what I’m getting at, and I never see that mentioned, just either “self care is being nice to yourself” or “self care is kicking yourself in the ass to function for a few hours”. Kick yourself in the ass with niceness.

[notwrittenhere-deactivated20240]

Gotta get your emotion-focused coping before you do your problem-focused coping.

[teenytinyfrog]

[surreal--memes]

[marsapartment]

That’s it. That’s his whole character.

[maramahan]

So the other day, I was thinking about the classic alignment chart, and how it doesn’t really do much for me personally since it’s more about how characters interact with systems rather than how they interact with other people

I had a minute, so I figured I’d throw something together that DID suit my needs!

(Note: This chart regards a character’s intent rather than the outcome of their actions—and for sake of clarity, here are the definitions I’m working with:

Good: concerned with the well-being the collective, often at expense of the self

Evil: concerned with the well-being of the self, often at the expense of the collective

Kind: concerned with the emotional responses of others

Cruel: unconcerned with the emotional responses of others)

I like conceptualizing things this way, cause sometimes Bad People behave with ‘good’ or ‘kind’ intentions, and sometimes Good People do things that seem ‘evil’ or ‘cruel’

Also this gives me a way to compare/contrast characters who get lumped together under the other system

[perringwrites]

Ohoho. This is gonna change things.

[probablyfreeformrpgideas-blog]

I really like this!!

[luisonte]

Steampunk Echenique.

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

crab

[xxxtictacion]

Dwarven technology has come a long way

[queerofthecastle]

@thebibliosphere tagging you because of the post you made about fantasy mobility aids

[thebibliosphere]

That is some Wild West bullshit, I love it, that is fantastic.

[asmuchasidliketo]

She’s called Playa Crawler and was created for Burning Man by wheelchair user Mark Ellis (lot more infos in the link)

[gallusrostromegalus]

OH, AWESOME! I love that it runs on batteries and can walk effectively on sand.

[markrosewater]

Constructive criticism: I, as well as others I know do not like the recent social justice turn the art has taken. This includes but is not limited to: weird hair colors in battlebond, blatantly non conformist depictions of men and women alike (but mostly women ie. Estrid the masked and warlord rada), and no sexy men or women. If you, (or more properly the art direction team) would change his we would be very pleased.

One of the things I like to do with my blog is use it to help educate. I believe a lot of the narrowness of the world comes from people simply not being exposed to a wider range of ideas.

Let me start with one of the most important life lessons I’ve learned being a game designer for over twenty years. The world is not designed solely for one person’s (or one group’s) perspective. For example, I don’t design Magic so that every card is aimed at the same player. There are tons of different Magic players and they each want something different out of the game. If I designed every card for the competitive Standard player, for instance, a lot of players wouldn’t be getting the cards they want.

The art and the creative elements of the game are the same way. What is exciting to one player might be of no interest to another player. The colored hair, which you seem not to like, might be the very thing that makes another player connect to that character.

The goal of art diversity much like the goal of mechanical diversity is to allow as many different players as possible to find things that they connect with. This means that not every card creatively is for every player just as not every card mechanically is for every player.

But there’s something even more important at stake. By providing a wide range of offerings, we let people sample things they might not be aware of if they only self-select for the portion of the world they’re familiar with. A Standard player, for example, can be introduced to the world of Commander, something they would never learn about if we only made competitive Standard cards.Another thing that can happen as you open yourself up to diversity is an expanding of what “beauty” can mean. Everyone needs some beauty in their life and holding tight to such a narrow definition can actually restrict your ability to be happy and enjoy the world around you.Finally, it’s important to understand the impact of what you’re asking for as it relates to the needs of others. Asking for everything to cater solely to you (or your group) at the expense of other people’s needs can cause actual harm. Part of growing as a person is understanding that your needs don’t exist in a vacuum and that you have to take other people’s needs into account.

[dateamonster]

im going on the record to state that stories which position seelie-unseelie/summer-winter/etc court dynamics as inherently oppositional forces of good and evil are all written by COWARDS

face it!! you want to confine the fae to your narrow human narratives of heroes and villains to make yourself feel more secure in the face of the unknowable! its an understandable impulse but its a tired portrayal and one that doesnt do neither the writer or reader any favors!!!!

[dateamonster]

coming back to this because im in that kinda mood

summer courts being always bright and lively and symbolized by happy sunny shiny flowery things only and winter courts being dark and attached to symbols of evil/death is so so Weak

winter is a season of cold and dark but it can also be associated with the clean beauty of fresh snow, the brightness of a full winter moon on a cloudless night, preservation, sleep/restfulness, peaceful quiet, winter festivities and the coziness of coming in from the cold

summer is a light and warmth but there’s also summer storms, heatwaves/wildfires/drought as symbols of ferocity and mercilessness, the eeriness of heat mirages, abundance of insects, the sun as not only a symbol of warmth and nourishment but one of harsh unrelenting conditions

a well-made court dichotomy should allow both sides to have “good” and “bad” traits by human standards (and tbh im more in favor of both courts being equally sinister to human perception because thats how i see fae in general) and opposition between the two should never stem from the idea that one side is just “Evil”

also like can’t we just be done with light = good and dark = bad imagery in fantasy. like come on.

[modularnra40]

And don’t just flip them! Summer is ‘pretty but eeeevil’ with winter as ‘ugly but goood’ is Also Bad! 

All Fae Are Unknowably Sinister And Occasionally Surprisingly Benevolent 2018

[phantoms-lair]

@providentially-demonic