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Ask the Gimp

This is where you can ask me, a card carrying gimp, about all those disability-related questions that you've always been curious about. To learn more about Ask the Gimp, check out the introduction to this feature.

Ask the Gimp

Go ahead—I won't bite!

From my perspective, the disability rights movement has four interconnected goals/functions:

To effect change through the political process
To work in the academy to create a body of disability-related literature
To empower ourselves and one another
To educate the general public

I think we've done well on the first three, but unfortunately we haven't always been great at fostering dialogue [ …]