This Topic: Living in an Abilist Society

Going to school, working, falling in love, campaigning, raising children – how are these activities that make us social beings difficult for people with disabilities to access? The last event in the This Topic series of talks is held with French psychologist and philosopher Charlotte Puiseux, who works on the themes of validism, "handifeminism" and "handiparentality" and has been active for many years in anti-capitalist, feminist and queer/crip circles. In her autobiographical book De chair et de fer: Vivre et lutter dans une société validiste (France, 2022) she traces the history of violence and discrimination she has inherited and deciphers the ideological system behind it: validism. Puiseux makes us reflect on how people with disabilities can reclaim their history and transform their identities into tools of struggle for emancipation.

The author, streaming live from France, is in dialogue with Tiziano Colombi, co-founder of DiverCity, a European inclusion and equity magazine.