Ableism and Speciesism – The Structural Gap in a Debate On Tierbefreiung 116, September 2022 > The September 2022 issue of Tierbefreiung (No. 116) addresses ableism within an antispeciesist context and identifies forms of discrimination and mechanisms of exclusion within emancipatory movements. In doing so, it engages an important field. What is striking, however, is…
Kategorie: Communication Rights and Ableism
Antispe Ability in the context of neurodiverse disAbilities, neurodiversity in general, and activism Our approach to neurodiversity as including anti-speciesist neuro-diversity. Since multidimensionality, language, ableism, and antispeciesism already play a role within Antispe Ability, neurodiversity [1] – a term we understand as an as-yet open concept of a new, expanded diversity practice – finds its…
When people “with disabilities” discriminate against people with disabilities?!? Anecdotal case: A manager at an organization, with an invisible disability, discriminates against a young person with a visible disability, but cloaks their ableism in seemingly anti-ableist rhetoric. How to react? The fact that a person is categorised as severely disabled does not change the fact…
Care and personal assistance – the difference. Against the backdrop of practice in Germany Confronting and Challenging Ableism Together Assistance and care are never neutral: they are embedded in social structures of power and discrimination. A central problem here is ableism – the expectation that disabled people should conform to a supposed norm. Ableism shows…
Image: Illustration highlighting themes of ableism and speech divergence, featuring people discussing and using communication aids. Isolated and overlooked – users of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) call for a say by Pegi – I use AAC. An assistant and an AI help me to formulate my messages. The content reflects my opinion. We, the…
Human assistance, AI and speaking, writing texts We ask the AI: „Do you think it is legitimate to work with AI when you are a user of AAC and also use a human assistant for joint formulation and typing? How can such a constellation make it clear that “I as the AAC user”, “the…