1: What Brings Us to Disability and Other Human Questions?

One comes to disability studies for numerous reasons. No one account is the same. And one person's narrative of engaging with disability studies can be told in many different ways; depending on whom one is trying to impress. Why should we contemplate disability and other human questions? If disability studies is a community of writers, political activists and artists, then what brings us here? This question gives away as much as it demands. This question says something about the intentions and aspirations of those that study disability. This question is one commonly asked in feminist, queer, black, working class, trans and other kinds of radical scholarship that exist as a consequence of oppression and are developed as responses.