GimpGirl Grows Up:

Women With Disabilities Rethinking, Redefining, and Reclaiming

Community

What is GimpGirl?

• We come together to share our lives, in a safe space that centers more on the strengths we have as a collective.

• Has never been centered towards any particular angle of disability.

• Over the years it has developed into a growing and ever-evolving collective dedicated to peer counseling and advocacy with a very smart, sassy, geeky, sexy spirit.

GimpGirl: A Tech Timeline

• Started in 1998 on SerenityMOO

• Had four email lists to start, serving niche communities

• Transitioned to LiveJournal in 2003

• Opened on Second Life, Facebook and Twitter in 2008

Second Life

• Provides opportunity to network with other disability, women and nonprofit groups

• Allows easier collaboration within our community

• Needed adaptations for further accessibility• Added an IRC relay

GimpGirl: Moodle

GimpGirl: Facebook

GimpGirl: Linked in

GimpGirl: Twitter

GimpGirl: Flickr

GimpGirl: Second Life

GimpGirl: Second Life

GimpGirl: Our Members

(Member Liz Henry)