Giada Gerini and her fight for the rights of the deaf. Interview
How does it feel when you don't understand something you're interested in? What sensations do you feel in front of a wall that blocks our perception of reality? That's what one wonders after seeing the video released by Giada Gerini via his Facebook profile these days.
Sara Giada Gerini, 36, Sardinian, athlete, deaf. "Sport is the antidote to loneliness and discrimination"
Sara Giada Gerini is an Italian excellence, a great athlete who was part of the deaf national volleyball team. Also in his case, as for example in the case of Bebe Vio, sport takes on a role that transcends mere competition. “I felt and lived it as a natural part of my day and my life and I understood that for me it is a way of communicating and expressing myself. What I don't say in words I say with movement and gestures with the ball, with the racket. I realized it's a rematch, a different skill of mine. "
#Let's feel together with her
With its campaign #Let's feel, Giada Gerini asks that the contents of the television videos be subtitled. This is a fundamental battle not only for the deaf but also for our entire society. A country attentive to the rights of citizens is certainly a milestone of civilization that would bring benefits for all. The collapse of the walls, of all the walls, starts from initiatives like this.
While watching your video I imagined myself in a cinema watching a film in an unknown language without subtitles. I think that in such a situation I would feel really disheartened. How do you feel when this happens to you?
“I answer the question with a few lines of my reflection that I have not yet published: I invite the hearing to do this type of simulation.
In a highlight of the day, when you are with your family or with your partner, mute your TV and try to decode the communication with lip reading, without subtitles.
Will you get a headache? Will you understand something? Will you feel mortified and children of a lesser god?
This is the meaning of my battle, this for TV. And in everyday life without written and visual help ?!
I call my discomfort in these contexts Impotence. "
