A basic guide to the issues facing Deaf people – including rights and equality. Some aspects also relate to hearing people. A number of important links are found within the text – including where to…
This video from Star Talk that’s out just today (or rather late yesterday in terms of the UK but today in terms of the USA) is very interesting because it concerns the amount of fakery…
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is observed annually on November 25th. This year it falls on Tuesday 25th November and the day marks the start of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence,…
In what was a long period of war and conflict that had begun in 1792, France declared itself a country in danger (‘Citoyens, La Patrie est en danger‘) due to the wars that had begun…
Switched at Birth (broadcast 2011–2017 with a total of 103 episodes) had a considerable impact in terms of how Deaf culture and American Sign Language (ASL) were represented on prime time television. Unlike many earlier…
Its wrong! But sadly there are millions, billions, even who think its right. In that case then, colonialism is also right and racism is also right and war is also right and fascism is also…
This is the huge problem with any speech based system humanity operates. Its why many thought the Deaf were idiot savants. Its why oralism flourishes. Its why many hearing desire even to this day the…
Recently I was watching some clips from Mark Medoff’s film adaptation of his famous book Children of a Lesser God (CLG). I’ve never read the book however William Hurt as James Leeds in the film…
Howard Glyndon is, for the better versed of those who have studied Deaf history, an American woman who has a town named after her. Laura Redden Searing, a noted journalist during the time of the…
Crab mentality has existed in the Deaf community for a long time. Those like Doug Alker and Dorothy Miles had attested to various audiences such as the 1880 Committee, Federation of Deaf People etc that…