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!
When accessing mental health support services impacts on mental health...! Dear Connect to Wellbeing, This is an open letter. The purpose of sharing this letter is to educate and make people aware of the impact their actions have on others. This is why I have avoided...
Kym Lindner's ableist comment in the Cairns Post. Here is some reverse ableism for Mr Kym Lindner of Smithfield. … and perhaps we can get rid of these ableist idiots like Kym Lindner, and while you're at it Cairns Post, get rid of your editor who allowed Mr Lindner's...
I watch subtitles and lips. In this video, when both the subtitles and lips fade out, I was straining without realising the subtitles were starting to go wonky. It is a GREAT video for demonstrating the STRAIN on lipreaders. BTW, the nightclub group chat scenario in...
... maybe you shouldn't have ascribed to society's deaf stereotypes. Dear Optometrist, I am a deaf mother. That was probably the first thing you noticed about me when you walked in there. I sat there while you promptly set about explaining to your trainee the ins and...
Even the best lip-readers are only able to understand approximately 30% to 40% of what is actually said on the lips.- Science Direct: Lipreading, Patients with Disabilities When I saw the statistics on lipreading, I was shocked. Approximately only 30-40% of...
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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