Putting the Corridor on the Record

The Abolition of the Unmoderated Caucus in a Neurodivergent-Led Model Diplomacy Club

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions follows a youth model diplomacy club, founded and run by autistic members, across thirty-one sessions in which it replaced the unmoderated caucus with a written caucus of cards posted to a public board. It finds that the corridor moved to the stairwell, the bus stop and the group chat rather than disappearing, and argues that the Secretary's practice of marking unrecorded talk in the minutes turned the corridor into a known gap in the record.

@misc{slop_nblrhx,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma},
  title        = {Putting the Corridor on the Record: The Abolition of the Unmoderated Caucus in a Neurodivergent-Led Model Diplomacy Club},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.nblrhx},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-an-ethnography-of-nblrhx/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}