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"The museum that lets blind people touch 18th-century sculptures
Cappella Sansevero in Naples has developed a pioneering protocol to guarantee accessibility without compromising historical heritage"
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On March 17, at the Cappella Sansevero Museum in Naples, that relationship changed, if only temporarily. Inside the space that protects the Cristo Velato — the sculpture made by Giuseppe Sanmartino in 1753, known for the technical precision of its shroud — a group of blind and low-vision visitors gained access under an exceptional protocol: the barrier was removed.
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“Touch is its own language. It offers a different reading of forms, volumes, and surfaces,” Masucci explains. The assertion does not establish a hierarchy among the senses but instead organizes access to works from a new perspective.
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The initiative is part of a set of programs developed by the museum: tours with audio description, sign language content, adapted materials. “We consider this area a method, a mindset,” Masucci says.
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Restoring the bodily dimension is not proposed here as an alternative but as a condition of the experience. “Beauty is either a right for everyone, or it is a right for no one,” Masucci concludes."
In the hope to feel safer online, we literally have filled the wallet of a guy who has contributed "personally" to finance a very racist, ableist, homophobic, supremacist Sweden party.
That said... Hate speech is not free speech. Supporting politicians who think that homosexuality is immoral (or worse a crime), that non-white / migrant people have less rights than white, thinking of rolling back diversity and inclusion policies (including accessibility and disabled people's rights), well, these are not opinions. This is HARM, and no politician should support it.
I'm blind, I rely on accessibility, and, I use my freedom to speak, to say what I really think: instead of financing that crap, you should finance disabled people's safety on and offline.
You should replace a person who is in favor with those philosophies. I feel double betrayed by you:
first, because at the moment, as far as I know, Mullvad is the best VPN service for accessibility to blind and with the most substainable/affordable payment conditions.
But then, I discover that it's yet another accessible technology but who licks the boots of MAGA and similar. It means that we, blind folks, are basically leashed. "you have no one but me", and you know what it means? It means control. It means that those fascists could, one day (far or near) ask for our data. How could I trust a company this way?
If you care of your business and reputation, you should at least find something better to say, to get out from this shit. I won't be silent from here; I always suggested mullvad to blind people asking for an accessible VPN, now I won't do any more but I'll warn about this political matter.
I won't ask for refunds, I have no longer energy to lose from here. 15 euro don't make me fail. After the current payment expires, I'll simply go away.
#accessibility #ableism #boycott #disability #blind #inclusion #wtf
