Accompanying STIM CINEMA, the gallery has prepared supplementary materials to accompany publics through concepts, conversations, and urgencies pertaining to neurodiverse experiences and ways of being in the world. This pool of resources seeks to provide a breadth of entry points into the exhibition and its themes, by taking up a diverse set of sensory registers, pedagogical strategies, and pragmatic forms. These resources are found across both galleries, and digital copies are available on the STIM CINEMA program page. This post highlights select resources:

Offered as both an audio recording and a written transcript, the descriptive guide navigates the exhibition design and context to add texture to visitors’ experiences of the installation. Additionally, the guide provides important wayfinding information for publics to follow before or when visiting the galleries at UTM.

Found on the tabletops in the e|gallery, this interpretive guide serves to pull at conceptual threads, and tease out key themes from the Neurocultures Collective’s nebulous mural. Rather than dictating audiences’ interpretations, the guide pulls focus on the moments of nested wondering and critical inquiry within the expansive composition, to hatch new understandings of cinema’s relationship to neurodivergent experience, and representations of Autistic being in the world. One line on the mural asks: “[what] if the camera was Autistic?”; another annotation reads: “applause is stimming.”

As an extension of the co-working methods and illustrated sprawl of ideas mounted in the Co-Creation Studio, the Blackwood has prepared a bibliography to patch additional voices into the conversations convened by STIM CINEMA. Ranging from academic journals, and sharply written critical texts such as Pooja Rangan, The Documentary Audit: Listening and the Limits of Accountability (2025), to alternative presses developing collective, publication strategies found in the sampling of texts from the Re • Storying Autism Writing Collective, and poems from the Multiverse Series. This resource accepts the invitation to collaborate, in thought, with the Neurocultures Collective, using the bibliography as a critical, connective tissue that brings together diverse formats, genres, and voices.11About Re•Storying Autism in Education: A multimedia storytelling project that brings together Autistic people, family members, practitioners, educators and artists to rethink practice in ways that desire the difference of Autism. Learn more here: https://www.restoryingautism.com/. The Multiverse series is “a literary series devoted to different ways of languaging, curated by neurodivergent poet Chris Martin, and featuring a chorus of editorial voices. Multiverse primarily emerges from the practices and creativity of neurodivergent, autistic, neuroqueer, mad, nonspeaking, and disabled cultures. The desire of Multiverse is to serially surface multiple universes of underheard language that might intersect, resonate, and aggregate toward liberatory futures. In other words, each book in the Multiverse series gestures toward a correspondence—human and more-than-human—that lovingly exceeds what is normal and normative in our society, questioning and augmenting what literary culture is, has been, and can be.” Learn more here: https://milkweed.org/multiverse. Each of the texts catalogued in the bibliography can be found in the Co-Creation Studio.

The exhibition continues to circulate and remain accessible through take-home ephemera: STIM CINEMA’s film transcript, and the exhibition’s micropublication.

The film transcript, printed on tabloid-sized paper, is found in a stack adjacent to the video installation in the Blackwood Gallery. It reproduces the film’s dialogue, and parses out subtleties within the work’s score. In place of open captions, this resource serves as both an extension of access for D/deaf publics, as well as means to further engage in, and revisit the moving-image work of The Neurocultures Collective.

The micropublication hosts Christine Shaw’s curatorial text, which assembles the exhibition’s conceptual framework, and offers insights into the curatorial strategies which inform the exhibition design. Throughout, the publication reproduces block quotes from adjacent writers to share foundational discourses in neurodivergent and critical disability studies. Additionally, the micropublication prepares audiences for responsive programming—such as the Reader-in-Residence series and forthcoming OUGHTISM seminar. This resource is available both in large-print and standard format online and in print.

This resource lists community services and systems of support organized locally, provincially, and at the University. Whether it be sources for alternative pedagogy and education, or seeking accommodations, this document offers impactful starting points for interested readers.