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!
I've been pondering on this particular judgmental view lately - that it is always a choice where you live. Let's look at this in context of disability: Neighbours Supportive and understanding neighbours are important. Bonus if they share some similar views or...
Wayne Sharples reading the part from "The Gruffalo" where the Fox learns he is the Gruffalo's favourite food. You know how people think in the language they were raised in? People raised with spoken language often report "hearing" in their head when they have...
I was recently invited to a public Facebook group - Auslan Media Access. This group is about lobbying and increasing awareness of the need for interpreters in the media regarding news broadcasts and emergency broadcasts aimed at delivering information to Australians....
When the idea for this blog came about at the beginning of 2019, I did not realise how my commitment to The Year of the Squeaky Wheel would shape and influence where my energy went for 2019. Here's an excerpt: I am upset and angry. Nobody likes being confronted with...
Have you ever wondered what it is like being deaf in society? Read this article with an open mind instead of “Oh, it couldn’t POSSIBLY be like that!”
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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