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GimpGirl Community:
Women With Disabilities Rethinking, Redefining, and Reclaiming
Community
GimpGirl: A Tech Timeline
• Started in 1998 on SerenityMOO, a text-based virtual world
• Had four email lists to start, serving niche subcommunities within the women with disabilities community
• Transitioned to LiveJournal in 2003
• Opened on Second Life, IRC, Facebook and Twitter in 2008
GimpGirl: Our WebsiteMoodle
GimpGirl: Facebook
GimpGirl: Twitter
GimpGirl: Flickr
Second Life
Second Life• Provides opportunity to network with other disability, women and nonprofit groups
• Allows easier collaboration within our community
• We have weekly support group meetings for women with disabilities only
• We have events that are open to the general public for fundraising and discussion or presentation of issues relevant to women with disabilities
• Needed adaptations for further accessibility
Interdependent Models of Access to Virtual Worlds
• Accommodation for individuals as requested
• Architectural access to community space● Look accessible in virtual spaces
• Universal Design for use of community tools ● Put forethought into basic accessibility on website, virtual space, and any online tools or physical space used
Conclusion• We come together to share our lives, in a safe space that centers more on the strengths we have as a collective
• Radically inclusive of all disabilities and a broad definition of "woman"
• Over the years it has developed into a growing and evolving collective dedicated to peer counseling and advocacy with a DIY, sexy, geeky spirit
• Over 1500 members, mostly English-speaking and in a range of different countries
GimpGirl Staff
• Katherine Mancuso / Muse Carmona
• Jennifer Cole / JennyLin Arashi
• Lucy MacDonald / Ofelia Pevensey
• Alejandra Ospina / Aleja Asturias
GimpGirl Board
• Liz Henry
• Len Burns
• Jason Nolan
• Ricky Buchanan
08/27/09