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

    September 22, 2025December 1, 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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  • If Sign Language was….
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    If Sign Language was….

    September 16, 2019April 28, 2026

    A brilliant artwork that takes up the entire west side of Cubitt Square at King’s Cross. Its a collaboration between artist Christine Sum Kim, Frank Barnes School and Argent the site’s developer. It must be…

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  • Why hearing people ‘see’ supremacy
    This might seem quite an obtuse title, but in a sense it has already been answered in some ways on Deaf21. To be hearing is...
  • The true origin of the oppression of the Deaf?
    Evidently many in the hearing world think the Deaf have no integrity nor proper sense of being. Why? There are many historic reasons – and...
  • The men who wouldn’t listen…
    By a strange quirk of fate, a certain day in 1876 happened to be the same day two important historical figures made the grade. Both...
  • 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 Deaf President Now! campaign at Gallaudet in...
  • The Abbé de L’Épée
    The Abbé de L’Épée is a revered figure in the history of the deaf. Presented here is a text from a popular French magazine published...

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