Queen of That Universe
The realm of sound yields to me, sits at my feet. I can switch on. Or not.
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Posts Tagged: American Sign Language
Burned In The Melting Pot
At Guernica, Sara Nović condemns the linguistic dismissal of American Sign Language and questions the overwhelming primacy of spoken English. She attributes this erasure of Deaf culture not only to widespread misconceptions about disability, but also to the insatiable American desire to steamroll all forms of difference it encounters: No savior narrative can be extracted; no […]
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The Ways We Speak
We suffer, after all, not because of the ways we speak, but because of the ways we exclude ourselves with internalized external narratives about how different we feel from others.
...moreGrowing Up With Signs
At Vela Magazine, Katie Booth writes on the historical repression of sign language in favor of oralism, and her experience growing up hearing with a deaf grandmother: Everywhere she went, she brought Sign. In my mind, it was an act of rebellion as much as it was an act of preservation. The schools told her that […]
...moreBeyond the “Hang Loose” Sign
Sign languages are just as rich as spoken languages, with their own grammar, slang, and regional peculiarities. American Sign Language is distinct from French and Kenyan and Peruvian Sign Languages—and, as was recently discovered, from Hawaiian Sign Language. Linda Lambrecht, a sign-language instructor at Kapiolani Community College who is fluent in both ASL and its […]
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