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What are disability politics? How do they relate to my central theses: impairment matters in disability politics and social deconstruction obfuscates and potentially harms disability politics? This section first provides a brief over- view of the disability rights movement and the simultaneous evolution of lit- erature in disability studies. This is done in order to show how disability studies scholarship from the 1980s and 1990s reflects the social movements of the past and present. The section then moves to McRuer’s book and the intriguing and insightful parallels he draws between the ways in which disabled and queer (or queer/disabled) bodies have been created over time. Based on interpretivist inquiry and recreation of genealogies of disability, one can learn a great deal about the social construction of disability and deviancy, as well as practices of control over those bodies labeled as such. The disability rights movement in liberal welfare states The story of disability politics is often one told about shared experiences of oppression, marginalization, and a struggle which cross-cuts impairment groups. Americans Disabled for Accessible Public Transit (ADAPT) and other cross-disability organizations like the American Association of People with Disabilities or the Disability Rights Education Defense Fund certainly have impacted positive changes in the broader disability community around questions of accessibility, accommodation, and anti-discrimination. Most notably, members of these groups impacted passage of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the ADA of 1990, and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. Oliver and Barnes (2012) discuss the rise of a broadly focused, loosely associated Disabled People’s Movement in the 1970s to its height in the 1990s as a formative era in what can be thought of as the beginning of an era of ‘disability politics.’ Figure 1 delineates different ‘eras’ of understandings and reactions to disability by the state and later by activists.