Tech VCs, Oligarchs, Bodily Autonomy, and Coconuts
I'm making the political calculus to rally around bodily autonomy and the celebration of interdependence.
Ryan Boren
Queer, neurodivergent, and disabled technologist turned wannabe-sociologist resisting neuronormative domination.
Latest posts
Cortez the Killer and Critical Race Theory
The story of America and the world is the story of Christian supremacist, white supremacist brutality.
You have soaked our children in shame and given permission to your children to hate.
I sent this to all of my Texas representatives: We’re sponsors of Dripping Springs Pride, happening tomorrow, June 22nd 2024. https://www.prideofdrippingsprings.org Signs for the event have been repeatedly vandalized and stolen, and homophobic insults have been hurled. Here’s a news segment from KVUE: “Dripping Springs Pride organizers say signs to promote this weekend s festival were [ ]
Toxic Christians: We See You
We see your racial hatred, your indifference to suffering, and your refusal to examine systemic causes. We see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy. We see your deflection, false equivalence, fear-based socialization, projection, and defensive fetishes.
Introducing Stimpunks Foundation
Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community. We presume competence, and we believe in self-determination. We, Stimpunks Stimpunks Foundation is a nonprofit by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. Stimpunks Foundation challenges the typical approach to helping…
My September Blogging
Almost all of my blogging for September was over on Stimpunks. I reserved boren.blog for promoting my kid’s rock album about autistic life. My Kid Released a Rock Album About Autistic Life The Neurodivergent Experience in Josephmooon’s “So Far So Good” My August Blogging September was busy at Stimpunks. We made progress on setting up [ ]
My Kid Released a Rock Album About Autistic Life
Our own Ronan released an album. Ronan is lyricist for Josephmooon. You can read the story of their distributed collaboration on their blog: josephmooon explained more backstory How to write a song Mooonmemories Here’s the story. Early in 2020, as a pandemic encouraged people around the world to “stay home,” Josephmooon was created as a [ ]
The Neurodivergent Experience in Josephmooon’s “So Far So Good”
Our own Ronan is releasing an album. Ronan is lyricist for Josephmooon. You can read the story of their distributed collaboration on their blog: josephmooon explained more backstory “How to write a song” Mooonmemories These songs resonate with my autistic, bipolar, and disabled life. I’m super excited to add them to my favorite playlist, Chronic [ ]
My August Blogging
Almost all of my blogging for August was on Stimpunks. That’s where my DEI, neurodiversity, and disability blogging will happen for now. boren.blog will be for SpIns, for personal news, and for toxic Christianity and Texas politics through my particular set of lenses. Fostering healthy pluralism, which democracy demands, means confronting intolerance. boren.blog Texas Republicans: [ ]
Texas Republicans: Making Texas Schools and Texas Cities Unmanageable
Why do they underfund public schools? To make them fail. Why don’t they want masks in public schools? To make them fail. This is an experiment to see what will anger parents enough to demand privatization. It’s a ploy. A scheme. A grift. Jess Piper (@EnglishTeach07) August 12, 2021 This grift is happening in [ ]