We welcome stuttering in all its forms, frequencies, and intersections, recognizing that we all stutter and stammer in different ways. Collectively, we desire a space (and time) for people with dysfluencies and their allies to explore, celebrate, study, and document vocal differences.
We are collaborators with interests in promoting dysfluent speech as an aesthetic and expressive value in a culture that demands speed, efficiency, and fluency in voice. Many of us are people who stutter or stammer in our speech. We view our speech (and your speech, too) as beautiful in all its voluntary and involuntary utterances. Some of us have gained from our collaborations with speech-language therapists; some of us have been traumatized by that same work. Some of us are working toward a radical revisioning of therapeutic approaches to stuttered speech through stutter-affirming conversations and dialogues. In our collaborations (past, present, and future), we challenge the primacy of biomedical expectations about fluent speech. We love and celebrate the diversity of speech patterns, the pauses in voice, communication, and thought, that dysfluencies introduce in conversation, and we sustain those conversations through ongoing interdisciplinary dialogue.