Event report: Animal and Disability Liberation at iHuman’s Animal-Human-Machine
This is a guest post by ShARC cofounder Dr Seán McCorry on behalf of the ShARC Blog Team. *** Disability rights activists and animal liberationists have not often found themselves working towards common goals in political coalitions. From the assertion of shared humanity, which has been a crucial strategy in disability activism, to the frequently problematic way in which disability has been invoked by prominent animal rights philosophers, it is probably fair to say that relationships between zoocentric and anti-ableist thinkers have been characterised by an amount of mutual suspicion. More recently, though,…continue reading →