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As part of World Deaf Day, a talk by Tiphaine Vandermaesen from the Vegan Sign team. With LSF/French interpreters present
Tiphaine Vandermaesen lives in Rennes. Passionate about animal ethics and an animal rights activist, she is the founder of Vegan Sign, a collective of sign language users campaigning for animal rights. During her studies, as she discovered the full extent of the horrors humanity is capable of, she began questioning the way animals are treated. For her university dissertation as part of the DU “Animals and Society,” she asked: If animals could speak, would we treat them better? “I studied the links between discrimination against human minorities and discrimination against animals. Oppression is often justified by comparing minorities to animals, thereby devaluing them and reducing empathy. Deaf people experience inequality because our society favors spoken communication. This is known as audism. Yet visual communication does exist. For example, Sign Language, which was created by Deaf people. And for animals, their behavior.” “I am not saying that animals and disabled people experience ableism in the same way. No, what I want to demonstrate is that ableism is the glue holding together systems that devalue the lives of both animals and disabled people, thereby paving the way for a wide range of forms of oppression.” Sunaura Taylor, an American artist and activist campaigning against ableism and for animal rights. By questioning what speech means in our societies, Tiphaine Vandermaesen invites us to engage with a timely and bold philosophical question. Open to everyone aged 15 and over, booking required. Booking: https://bibliocite.fr/evenements/
Admission: Registration required, from August 25
Source: paris.fr — photo: Tiphaine Vandermaesen from Vegan Sign