Deepening inequalities between people with disabilities is a topic of debate in a Decom project

Next Wednesday (07/08), from 4pm to 6:30pm, on the Google Meet platform (https://meet.google.com/szr-wvpp-ntw), another meeting of the project DIALOGICAL ENCOUNTERS: LIVES AND VOICES THAT MATTER will be held, with the theme “People with disabilities and the deepening of inequalities and invisibility in the pandemic”. This edition of the meeting will be translated into Libras. In total, there will be ten opportunities to contribute to the process of confronting intensified rights violations in the current scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic. The meetings are open to audiences internal and external to the university.
This week, the guests are: Antônio Muniz da Silva, librarian, professor and member of the Brazilian Braille/CBB Commission; Lívia Cirne, associate professor of the Journalism course at UFRN, of the Postgraduate Program in Media Studies and member of the Accessibility and Inclusion Working Group at CCHLA/UFRN; Rebecca Nunes, prosecutor at the Public Ministry of Rio Grande do Norte, with duties in the area of ​​Rights for People with Disabilities; and Ticianne Perdigão, graduated in Law and Journalism, master in Law and PhD in Communication, both from UFPE, and mother of Lívia, aged 4, who has down syndrome.
At each weekly meeting, from June to August, we will discuss, with representatives of civil society and the justice system, about populations, communities, territories and groups in situations of vulnerability and hypervulnerability. The focus of the discussions are the threats to health accompanied by the intensification of historical violence against their most basic human rights, such as the right to life, water, food, education, culture, accessibility, housing, land, work, freedom of expression and communication.
Therefore, the choice to hold the Dialogical Meetings: Lives and Voices that Matter arises amid the worsening of human rights violations on the American continent. The pandemic has exposed, as never before, the colonial wound of civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental, sexual and communicational discrimination and inequalities. The chosen themes aim, in the same way, to contribute to the production of critical knowledge about an America marked by the blood of black and indigenous bodies, about a concept of humanity built from the oppression and exploitation of peripheral/southern peoples of the world; and about an experience of “communication” forged in imposed silences and invisibilities.
The project DIALOGICAL ENCOUNTERS: LIVES AND VOICES THAT MATTER, coordinated by professors and researchers Aline Lucena and Patrícia Paixão, consists of an extension action by the Department of Social Communication (Decom), integrated with the activities of the Latin American Observatory of Communication, Media and Human Rights (Amaru), of the research group Epistemologies and Transformative Practices in Communication, Media and Culture (Ecomsul), of the study group Subaltern Epistemologies in Communication (DesCom) and with the participation of students from the Postgraduate Program in Media Studies (PPgEM). In this edition, the event will count on the partnership of the LIBRAS Translation and Interpretation Services Committee of the Secretariat of Inclusion and Accessibility – SIA / UFRN. This action aims to contribute to the process of confronting inequalities and discrimination that have increased in the current scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic.