
Stimpunks Monthly Newsletter — September 2026
From the binder to the vote. From the reader to the peer. From the street to the world. What we built, what we learned, what we’re doing next. This newsletter pulls from our Now page, where we work…
The Library of Neurodivergent Alexandria
An open archive of neurodivergent voices: writing, talks, podcasts and stories, gathered by the NeuroHub community.
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Jobs, interviews, managers and meetings: what working life is really like for us, and what actually helps.

From the binder to the vote. From the reader to the peer. From the street to the world. What we built, what we learned, what we’re doing next. This newsletter pulls from our Now page, where we work…

Content Note: This essay discusses sexual assault on college campuses and in the military, including specific cases and how institutions responded to them. It names what happened without graphic…

I use astrology to create my outfits for a week. I’m a Sun Libra with Leo Ascendant/ Rising and a Scorpio Venus. csn I get if to work?

I have been working my ass off lately. The kind of morning where you are doing seventeen things at once, holding twelve more in your head, and somehow still feeling like you haven’t done enough. The…

Helen and I put a lot of work into the things we write and create, it costs a lot of time and energy in order to be able to make these things happen, and that means that we need to earn income from…

Content Warning: alcoholism My perspective is limited by my positionality. This essay is based solely on my own experience. and in no way should be interpreted as judgment or condemnation of any…
I met a woman this weekend who recently recognized her neurodivergence. She is a creator, a writer, an artist. She’s had an amazing career. Now she is asking existential questions and expressing a…

Tuesday morning, I asked my husband not to infodump. Since we retired, we spend a lot of time together. He loves to fill that time regaling me with tales of Warhammer 40k lore (for the Imperium),…

We talk about unmasking at work, with friends, at home, in therapy. We talk about letting ourselves stim and communicate more directly. Wearing the clothes that don’t hurt. Leaving the party before…
Week 38 runs Sunday 2026-09-13 through Saturday 2026-09-19. The day headings below carry their dates. Best Accomplishments Helen Edgar stopped being a contributor to this work and became a peer in…

David Grray-Hammond & Adele Murray will be speaking to Dilpreet Buxi about his companies work to develop technology that could predict burnout and measure stress levels in Autistic and Neurodivergent…
My husband got his hearing aids on Tuesday. The audiologist explained there will be an adjustment period. His brain will need to relearn how to process sound it hasn't had access to in years, and…
Every sheet that has somewhere to write now has a companion prompt — twelve of sixteen, up from ten. The four without one argue a position with no decision-maker at the other end. Sensory Access at…

*A large number of neurodivergent folks are living with dynamic disabilities - diagnosed or not so while this does not speak to the overlap, it truly is about what so many neurocomplex folks are…
The map's author read the forty passages Stimpunks wrote onto her map, and sent notes on eighteen of them. Those notes are now the pages. This is the part of the process the site was built around:…
Zine No. 110 — Star Stuff A byline has one field and contribution does not — what happened when the format was pushed to 5,154 names, what got built instead, and the practice that follows at any…
Field Guide No. 25 — Field Guides Eleven pieces of work sorted not by how famous the person was but by how the name came off — because “she was not given credit” is not one event. It is five…
Field Guide No. 4 — Field Guides Eight worlds in our own solar system that run on rules Earth would call impossible.
Field Guide No. 21 — Field Guides a support nobody named is a support nobody defends
Zine No. 107 — Young Readers A read-aloud about a thing everybody says about you that turns out not to work — and what an onion has to do with it, with every source kept on the page for the grown-up.

There is a particular kind of Friday evening that asks for a glass of red. Not a celebration, not an occasion; just the slow exhale at the end of a working week, the moment where you sit down and…
This site’s fair-use position, written down: what we quote from work still in copyright, how much of it, why we think we may, and what to do if you hold the rights and disagree.
The working pages of queering.earth: the colophon, the register, the ledger, the decisions, the finding aid and the privacy page — what each is for, and what the build checks about them.
Townes Van Zandt, Vincent van Gogh, Sylvia Plath and Kurt Cobain, read against the myth that made them: four records in which the work was not the symptom but the thing that was going well.