A Guide to Deaf Rights and Equality: Law, Advocacy, and Practice
A basic guide to the issues facing Deaf people – including rights and equality. Some aspects a…
Lets ‘Star Talk’
This video from Star Talk that’s out just today (or rather late yesterday in terms of the UK b…
Deaf women and the issue of violence
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is observed annually o…
Jean Massieu and the thief
In what was a long period of war and conflict that had begun in 1792, France declared itself a count…
Switched at Birth
Switched at Birth (broadcast 2011–2017 with a total of 103 episodes) had a considerable impact in te…
Is oralism racist as well as wrong?
Its wrong! But sadly there are millions, billions, even who think its right. In that case then, colo…
Children of a Lesser God’s patriarchy
Recently I was watching some clips from Mark Medoff’s film adaptation of his famous book Child…
Did the Deaf help Bell invent the telephone?
Howard Glyndon is, for the better versed of those who have studied Deaf history, an American woman w…
Crab mentality
Crab mentality has existed in the Deaf community for a long time. Those like Doug Alker and Dorothy …
Glyndon
Glyndon is a place named after a Deaf person. Its a rarity that a town (or small city with a populat…
I am/am not angry. An ‘1880 That’ irony
This new image (inspired by ‘1880 That’ and intended as a header for this website) which…
Oral supremacy in the USA – Part One
One particular story so far basically untold in its wholeness is that which reflects upon what had h…
Is oralism still a thing?
Of course oralism is still a thing. It hasn’t gone away. But is it still prevalent? Is it stil…
Deaf in Burundi – a case of paternalism (2)
This is the second part of the report on the Deaf in Burundi. The first part was published 14th July…
A Deaf teacher criticises Alexander Graham Bell
This interesting letter penned by Mr Gallaher, a prominent Deaf teacher, was written in June 1891 fo…
Dysconscious Audism
The term “audism” is reasonably well-known however the fact it is frequently mistaken fo…
The hearing world does not listen
Some may deem the above quote is another opinion by Deaf21 that the oral world’s anything but.…
A Hiroshima verbally untold
Hiroshima and Nagaski are the products of a hearing, audist society. People who can’t communic…
Other stuff
This is basically other stuff that’s not biographical or factual. It’s thoughts, opinion…
The Deaf are foreigners in their own country
This is from a news article in the Independent in September 1989. It had followed soon after the Dea…
Why Deaf21 has been altered to separate sections?
Even though Deaf21 began with an intent to write about oralism, that was indeed an overview of how I…
The incredulous existence of certain paradigms
One might think this post about what entails to be elements of the speech belief system is naff, but…
Deaf in Burundi – a case of paternalism
This is a very important piece of work in terms of third world countries and the ways and means in w…
Why are the Deaf tethered to a certain slant?
Someone once tried telling me the Deaf people were fascists. It was an eye opener and it came from a…