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An Overview of Deaf History, Culture & the Struggle for Rights.
  • Lets ‘Star Talk’
    Irony | Language | Miscellaneous | Reality

    Lets ‘Star Talk’

    November 28, 2025November 29, 2025

    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…

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  • Why?
    Irony | Language | Oral Doctrine | Paternalism

    Why?

    November 1, 2025November 2, 2025

    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…

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  • Crab mentality
    Irony | Other

    Crab mentality

    October 4, 2025October 16, 2025

    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…

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  • I am/am not angry. An ‘1880 That’ irony
    BSL | Irony | Miscellaneous | Oralism/Life Articles | Other

    I am/am not angry. An ‘1880 That’ irony

    September 22, 2025September 26, 2025

    This new image (inspired by ‘1880 That’ and intended as a header for this website) which is a brick wall featuring the words ‘I am deafinitely angry’ – came about as a result of a…

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  • A Hiroshima verbally untold
    Irony | Language | Miscellaneous | Other

    A Hiroshima verbally untold

    August 7, 2025September 17, 2025

    Hiroshima and Nagaski are the products of a hearing, audist society. People who can’t communicate and instead prefer to stand their stealth through the language of weaponry of untold strength. Speech is nothing but temporal…

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  • Why are the Deaf tethered to a certain slant?
    Irony | Oral Doctrine | Oralism/Life Articles

    Why are the Deaf tethered to a certain slant?

    July 8, 2025September 17, 2025

    Someone once tried telling me the Deaf people were fascists. It was an eye opener and it came from a left winger – a woman who was a feminist in fact. Nevertheless does it have…

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  • A plainly ridiculous Trumpism
    Historical | Irony | Miscellaneous

    A plainly ridiculous Trumpism

    July 3, 2025September 17, 2025

    Remember when he said ‘unpresidented?’ That’s Trump of course! Many in the US took the opportunity to distribute a free newspaper which extolled the fact that he had in fact been unpresidented. It was such…

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  • Vawlty Towers
    Historical | Irony | Oral Doctrine | Oralism/Life Articles

    Vawlty Towers

    June 28, 2025September 17, 2025

    On the corner of 35th Street NW and Volta Place NW in Washington D.C. can be found Vawlty Towers. Basil Fawlty wont be spotted there but the ghost of a certain Alexander Graham Bell may…

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Recent Comments

  1. Waters (deaf/CI user) on A Guide to Deaf Rights and Equality: Law, Advocacy, and PracticeOctober 25, 2025

    A good attempt at deaf rights, equality etc - and quite different from what I've seen before!

  2. Curling on I am/am not angry. An ‘1880 That’ ironySeptember 26, 2025

    The article vividly captures the Deaf communitys complex emotions regarding oralism and the 1880 Milan Conference. The mention of the…

Recent Posts

  • Lets ‘Star Talk’
    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...
  • Deaf women and the issue of violence
    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,...
  • Jean Massieu and the thief
    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
    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...
  • Is oralism racist as well as wrong?
    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...
  • Why?
    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...
  • Children of a Lesser God’s patriarchy
    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...
  • 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 also relate to hearing people. A number of important links are found within the text – including where to...

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