#autscape

[whirling-ghost]

thank you whoever liked my frantic reminders about Autscape 2021. I did forget about it that year but I've bought myself an online ticket for this year.

I've never been, I don't know how much is available online, but it is £10 and hopefully I can watch at least something when I'm not working

[cassolotl]

Is anyone at Autscape?

I'm not, but my nerdfriend @averixus is and he's doing a houseplant talk/workshop thing. 🪴

Plus our best man Parker is there too, and we collectively have a table for our zines, badges, knitwear and 3D-printed fidgets, with all proceeds going to my and Avery's local makerspace:

[rosemariecawkwell]

Poetry written at Autscape 2023

I only got home from Autscape at 5.15pm on Thursday. It was amazing. I learnt so much from the most amazing people. It was a wonderful experience, among autistic people being themselves. People wondered around in a variety of clothing, with or without shoes. They joyfully engaged in games and arguments. I cried so much, from being overwhelmed by everything. I met some lovely people, played a…

[ds9promenade]

Podcast episode discussing DS9 "Past Tense" & "Far Beyond the Stars"!

My friend Laura invited me onto their podcast to unpack Deep Space Nine episodes 3x11 & 12: "Past Tense" and 6x13: "Far Beyond the Stars," using them for a broader discussion on the role of science fiction in dreaming better futures into reality.

In our conversation, we:

compare the 2024 of "Past Tense" to our 2024

share our theories about historical events that may have inspired both episodes, as well as their relationship to other works of speculative/science fiction

point out and offer revisions for parts of "Past Tense" that somewhat undercut the story's intended messages about the evils of capitalism, ableism, police / military violence, and anti-homeless laws

gush about the artistry of the filming and acting in "Far Beyond" (Avery Brooks monologues my beloved)

and more — with a dash of humor as we go!

Give "Sanctified Imagination Far Beyond the Stars" a listen wherever you get podcasts — or read along with the transcript!

(CW: Christianity) — please do go in forewarned that Laura's Autistic Liberation Theology podcast centers around reinterpreting the Bible from a trans & disabled lens. If you skip to 44 minutes in you'll miss most of the religious commentary, except for when it makes sense to bring it up re: Joseph Sisko's 1950s incarnation as a street preacher.

If you are interested the full episode, some of the places we go in our winding conversation are:

Womanist midrash & sanctified imagination, which enact this call to imagine possibilities for the oppressed — to "make a way out of no way"

How Jesus's use of parables to teach about his envisioned "Kingdom of God" —where there's access for all, oppressors reformed and oppressed liberated, all needs met and all gifts celebrated — invites people to engage their sanctified imaginations to join in the work for a more just world, here and now

AutScape's & Crip Camp’s modeled possibilities for a fully accessible, disability-centered world

various directors / show writers who, through writing, discovered something new about themselves (think the Wachowski sisters & The Matrix, Dan Harmon and Community)

If you give it a listen (or read), I'd love to hear what you think! Did you connect with the concept of imagining better futures into reality? Any other Star Trek episodes you think encapsulate that well?

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Transcript of the above audio clip:

Avery: I definitely think the writers of this episode were thinking about how When Deep Space Nine was coming out, people's response to seeing Sisko was, Yeah, is, you can't have a black space captain. A black man can't be the hero of Star Trek!

Which just shows, like, for the viewers, like, Yeah, we've come a long ways here in the 90s. But we still think it's ridiculous to imagine a black space captain and it's only just becoming possible now.

Laura: yeah the um, , editor of the magazine says "put it in a drawer for like a couple of decades and might be--" it's like, yeah, that's

Avery: Yeah.

Laura: inside joke.

Avery: At the end, when, um, Benny Russell breaks down after being fired and everything, the street preacher comes back and, Benny says, "Tell me, please, who am I?"

Don't you know?" "Tell me." "You're the dreamer and the dream."

Laura: ah, this is so amazing.

Avery: And, like, yeah, that fits on so many different layers with, uh, Benny Russell is dreaming Sisko and dreaming Deep Space nine, and also Sisko is dreaming him, and also breaking the fourth wall,

Laura: yeah, because they're, neither of them are real, they're both fiction and yet they're, yeah. real.

Avery: Yeah. Yeah. Breaking the fourth wall, the writers and Avery Brooks are the dreamers, and the dream. This is, this is what, people have been dreaming of, this even the possibility of this. And they're making it true.

Laura: and at the end, you see him looking out the window and seeing Benny Russell in the reflection of the glass and

Avery: it's such a good shot. It's so good. It like gives me chills

Laura: you Have to cast something into the space you're not there yet to-- that becomes you.

Avery: Yeah. dream yourself into being.

[psychclips]

S2 E1: Autscape

[leeho]

S2 E1: Autscape

[hexaflexageek]

Bliss follows a good evening out seeing good performances, chatting with good people, arranging something good for Sunday, finding out about a good thing to join, and having a surprise interesting conversation about something unexpected. Bliss is being home with a hot chocolate with marshmallows in the Autscape mug. #bliss #hotchocolate #autscape #autistic #autism #goodtimes #goodthings #livingmybestlife https://www.instagram.com/p/B8j_X71Ayc9/?igshid=1tgyvx76nf92p

[dragonicmoon]

Screen printing workshop at Autscape 💖

(Design by @Raychus)

[scrappapertiger]

Lino carving and stamping on the train? Totally possible! Slightly scary but definitely possible 😜 #stampmaking #blockprinting #reliefprint #linocutprint #linocut #fox #Autscape https://www.instagram.com/p/B1ElyT8DcxO/?igshid=1xeerljkuiwud

[autisticstannis]

Another year, another #Autscape. Thank you for making me meet my fabulous autistic self, seeing myself through all of you. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1SHfhmC9Rx/?igshid=7igdawio853w

[whirling-ghost]

I remembered Autscape exists. They're online only this year. I really want to go to an autistic conference that's actually run by and for autistic people. I might actually be able to do some online stuff

[liflin]

그저 하늘이 좋아서. #autscape https://www.instagram.com/p/CDfopB9ptGs/?igshid=1ladwb5q028bv

[cassolotl]

My latest genius app idea, this time to bring #ActuallyAutistic interaction badges to mobile communication. Heavily inspired by Autscape!

HOW DOES IT WORK?

The app doesn’t actually have a chat function or anything built in. It assumes you already have established communication methods with folks. So maybe I’ll IM on Telegram with Moni, but send tweets to Elsie, and use WhatsApp with Jazzable.

Tapping [prompt] sends a little notification to someone asking them what their current badge colour is. That link only appears if they’ve not updated their badge colour for, let’s say, 36 hours.

Maybe it could be possible to link usernames with contacts in your phone - so tapping a username could take you to their contact card in your phone contacts, and from there you could open the chat with them in WhatsApp or send them a text or call them or whatever you like.

WHYYYYYY?

Because sometimes I am socially anxious and think that someone doesn’t want to be bothered for no reason. At Autscape the interaction badges deal with this very well! But away from Autscape, my friends are all contactable easily by IM... and in order to see if they’re happy to be talked to, I have to talk to them.

[floralfantasy]

Autscape, a conference for autistic people organised by autistic people.

The conference is being held between 8-11 August.

The theme this year is 'interdependence'

Registration extended till 10th July

For more details contact

Email- info@autscape.org

Phone 07511774654

#Autism

#Autscape2022

#neurodiversity ♾

#mentalInkness

[totallyautastic]

An ode to Autscape

OK, technically it is still on but I am not there today and I am pretty pissed off about it. This year was my first Autscape. It’s a conference by and for autistic people and it was the very first time I’d been around a lot of autistic people in real life.  OMG I wish I could live there. It was such a great atmosphere. At first I was a bit nervous about meeting people and didn’t know who I should talk to. Everyone has badges letting you know whether you can approach them and it was TOTALLY NORMAL to ask permission from someone if you can talk to them or not. Why isn’t real life like this? I got into the habit (or tried to) of usual gender neutral language for EVERYONE because there were no assumptions about gender (also I met shit tons of NBs, yay). Why isn’t real life like this? People were openly stimming, flapping, spinning etc. I wore my chewy necklace all day and chewed the shit out of it and no one cared. Why isn’t real life like this? Everyone was so accepting and sensitive about differences in appearance, speech, behaviour, everything really. Everyone was SO DAMN NICE. Why isn’t real life like this? I’m back at home now. Yesterday I was changing the world, today I’m cleaning up cat shit. Reality bites. I am already counting down the days to next year.

[queer-autistic]

On this page, please download and read the lecture notes for: Untangling the knots of neuroqueer intersectionality.

Autscape is an Autistic-run conference for Autistics. A hub of community, Autistic culture and many approaches to activism. You will learn more about Autistics from Autistics than from the allistics (non-autistics) who simply observe us, no matter how qualified they are in observing and studying us - we are still better equipped to tell you about ourselves. Autscape have compiled reading materials over the years from various talks and lectures, these will give you a window into aspects of our lives and experiences that will not have been covered in your training. The lecture I have recommended today talks specifically about the intersections of queer and neurodiverse identities.

If you are involved in fundraising during April for Autism Acceptance Month, consider donating to Autscape or other Autistic-led projects rather than charities that claim to serve the Autistic community but are not led by us.