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A smiling Korean woman with glasses and long hair

“It means something to be disabled. Never forget that.”

-Mia Mingus

a friendly little snail
Logo for the Muchia Te Indigenous Land Trust. A dragonfly floats over concentrain rings decorated with acorn and oak leaves.
Rammaytush Elder Cata smiling in a native plant garden

Rammaytush Land Acknowledgement

Hands hold a gaming device. The screen asks "Is this reading?"
a speech bubble reads "no right?"

So how many books have you read so far this year?

IDK like 30?

How do you remember all that?

I don’t. My memory deletes it all.

How many books do you read?

None. I mostly just read news. Books just feel dead.

a living room with a dog asleep on the couch, a pile of books on the table and a video game on the tv
A lightbulb moment! 2 mouths face each other. One says "I can't remember what I read." and the other says "books are too linear and static."
debris flys trus space headed for a barren asteroid with the label "now this is reading"

Heaps

Jason Arday, a smiling black man with long dreads
logos for the projects supporters: Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Gray Area

“There are no winners in neurotypical society.”

-Prof Jason Arday

Heaps is a reading medium design by and for neurodivergent people.

Its any text into a 3D world to explore, learn and build.

A magnifying glass searches thru book, docs, pics, sites, and sheets. Then these texts pivot to become a 3d world illuminated by a flashlight
2 walls coveres in postit notes. They read: unmet need co-design, ideation sessions, data gaps, survey analysis, peer review, priority matrix, asset mappnig, power structures, and interview questions.
A person smiling with glasses and hat outdoors

“Disabled people enact and bring into being the world that are not already available to them, the world they need and wish to dwell in.”

-Arseli Dokumaci