Just because YOU don’t see the pervasive discrimination we experience, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist!
Just because WE can’t hear, doesn’t make us any less capable. You don’t get to decide what is in OUR best interest!
Just because many of us are disempowered into silence, doesn’t mean you can discriminate against us freely!
Check out this video of my little one using baby sign 🙂 He has been signing for booby since about 5 months old. It started with squeezing my finger or boob and progressed to making fists, and then finally to the opening and closing repeatedly of his fist to...
So my sister in law came across a deaf blog ranting about some dude from The Voice, Andy Dexterity doing Auslan when he is not deaf. There was a lot of anger about cultural appropriation and comments about Andy signing badly. It prompted my interest because obvious...
https://youtu.be/qFcFpWzIQNk First, this is an excellent and well done video, everybody needs to watch it! I'd like to touch on my first experience of this video as it completely slammed me. It was used as an educational tool in a support coordination course I was...
People keep calling my phone and I've finally worked it out! Deaf people can't possibly own phones, and this must be common knowledge! Of course!! This totally explains why there will be difficulty explaining to a caller why the deaf phone owner cannot come to the...
No really. I've removed names for privacy as this isn't about any of these individuals personally, but rather the social/cultural context of this discourse. Here are the highlights for those of you without the ability to see the image posted below: "I wonder how...
This is a feminist deaf awareness and advocacy blog aimed at educating people about what it REALLY means to be deaf in society. I got the idea for this blog after being invited to submit some words on disability from the social model of disability. Reading the requirements for the submission made me realise just how big an impact society had on my own deafness.
So definitely, time to explore that and talk about it!
I invite anyone who is deaf or hearing impaired to contribute as guest bloggers. Just go ahead and contact me about this : )
To be honest, I don’t identify as being Deaf, as in with a capital “D”. I am not a part of the local Deaf culture / community, though I know some people within that community. There definitely is a divide in between deaf people and Deaf people in many cases and I think that is a shame. We all struggle with similar difficulties and frustrations.
I am a mother of five children ranging between two and sixteen. I am profoundly deaf which means I cannot hear a single thing! I have a hearing partner. I am a staunch radical feminist too. If I had to identify as something, it would be a radfem. We are also homeschoolers and have a lot of outside the box philosophies from not wearing shoes (much to my mother’s chagrin), rocking out the dreads, self sufficiency, autonomy, being educated and informed such that we can make our own decisions like good black sheep rather than sheeples.
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