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The Politics of Audiology at Gallaudet University The Last Hiccup Few weeks ago, Gallaudet University held a graduation for 2017 graduates—and I attended and received the 147th Commencement Ceremony “catalog” ranging from Order of Exercises [Processional to Conferring of Degrees and to Recessional]—there was one page that caught my eyes very much. Doctor of Philosophy where students received their Ph.D in field: Two in Educa... Wed, May 24 2017 Let’s Grab Some Popcorn! The Last Hiccup Watching Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump is like a set of movies in order or perhaps a sequence. Cutting 9.2 Billion dollars for Education is a big insult to the American people. LBTQA and Black students including Deaf students are America’s future students that should not be demoralized and oppressed! Wed, May 24 2017 My Letter for Graduate School The Last Hiccup My mother and my father were proud of me graduating that day! June 2011. --- [It was written in 2011] Gallaudet University 800 Florida Avenue, NE Washington, D.C. 20002 ATTENTION: Department of American Sign Language and Deaf Studies To Whom It May Concern: Thank you for the opportunity to introduce myself and to express my […] Sun, May 21 2017 Mothers Are Also Survivors of Alexander Graham Bell The Last Hiccup This is my sweet and loving Mother. In this picture on the right, my mother was 20 years old while on the left, my 21 years old father. It was taken at a park in Woodland, Washington on July 22, 1976. My mother was pregnant with my brother Steven. Today is Mother’s Day. All the […] Sun, May 14 2017 AGBell: Lies in Layers The Last Hiccup In this writing, we need to challenge the sociological problem of hate-motivated attitude by Alexander Graham Bell supporters that are against American Sign Language (ASL) that should report in the society as a perpetual and rough adventure in the world of evil lies in layers. I believe rather firmly that sociological problems are like bullying […] Thu, May 11 2017 Did Gallaudet University Erase Hate Crime Recently? The Last Hiccup I learned about this when I visited Gallaudet University couple of hours ago. It is being offered for $500—the university viewed it as vandalism. It was a student action project exhibit and robbed their time and education. I am very much in support of Black Lives Matter. To me, once someone took the sign down […] Wed, May 10 2017 The Most Controversial Tattoo: Deafhood The Last Hiccup About to get tattooed any minute. April 2010. I am being tired of called LIAR and accuse me that I was not the first person to have tattoo of Deafhood in America. I do not want to become egoistical about this but I get e-mails telling me that I’m a pathological liar and all nasty messages […] Mon, May 08 2017 Rebuke Cochlear Implant PSA The Last Hiccup I just got finished watching a movie just now, Passengers with Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt—there was a quote from the movie with the opening scene that I should share with the readers. “A new world. A fresh start. Room to grow.” The video via YouTube whom released to the public, Cochlear Implant PSA was full of public […] Mon, May 08 2017 ASL Story 1-11: Albert Einstein The Last Hiccup It was published by ASLized! three years ago—My ASL in 1-11 story. Sun, May 07 2017 Oregon’s Great Racism Roots: A History Lesson The Last Hiccup English Transcript: Hello! Right now, it is raining—birds are flying around, in fact, there is a bird right there. It brings memories back in Oregon, it rains all the time. I used to be a bicyclist heading for school or work, do I miss it? Yes and no. Portland only see sun 70 times […] Sat, May 06 2017 ASL National Anthem Signer The Last Hiccup Back in September 2014, I was invited to give a National Anthem in ASL for D.C. United, a pro soccer team in the honour of International Week of the Deaf where they selected HEARD [Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf] where I was a community liaison, lecturer and organizer–by volunteering hundreds and […] Sat, May 06 2017 Deaf Access Justice: An Announcement The Last Hiccup After given deep and serious thoughts for a while, it is time to let the followers of Deaf Access Justice (the only Deaf-centered and Deaf-run organization) announces that the organization will be closed soon within days. Thank you for your support. Deaf Access Justice CEO and Founder, Jason “JT” Tozier wishes you the best in […] Fri, May 05 2017 Political Aspects of Deaf Returned Citizens The Last Hiccup There has been a lot of political aspects of Deaf returned citizens life that are connected through their attitudes. In the society America breeds, Deaf returned citizens are being punished for their social, emotional needs and unraveling the fear. I must first preface my state of being by asserting that I am 100% Deaf. I […] Thu, May 04 2017 What is Returning/Returned Citizen? The Last Hiccup It is good article to read—Washington Post wrote an excellent post in January 2015, ‘Returning citizens’ are still one of D.C.’s most marginalized and motivated groups and I will copy and paste the article here with the link below and understand what ‘returning citizen’ means. Yes, the Deaf community needs to be educated more about the term. It […] Wed, May 03 2017 The Nation Was Also Built By Laurent Clerc The Last Hiccup History Through Deaf Eyes Today, May 1st is Immigrant Rights Day! Consider, to begin with a colonialism scene in Deaf world–especially in America that time. In 1816, Laurent Clerc to begin his journey for America knew the destiny to create in the name of Deaf Education. Clerc was the ONE who generated Deaf Education, without […] Mon, May 01 2017 Guest Lecturer at CSUN Social Justice Conference Sponsored... The Last Hiccup That was taken in 2015 where I was honoured to give a lecture for Social Justice conference held at California State University-Northridge sponsored by the Department of Deaf Studies, the Center for Teaching and Learning, and Deaf Studies Association. They rock! My lecture, Deaf Returning Citizens as Forgotten People. I had great experience there. The […] Sun, Apr 30 2017 IKEA Patronizes Deaf People The Last Hiccup I decided to share the letter—it happened today on April 30th back in 2010. That was when I quit my job there. I sent the letters to all the managers over the world including store directors and co-workers via my IKEA work e-mail address that time. Dear IKEA staff, management, and corporate headquarters, I am […] Sun, Apr 30 2017 Jeffrey Lee DuPree: You Are No Better Yourself The Last Hiccup The guy who really hates me the most—his name is Jeffrey Lee DuPree. He is very obsessed about me just like a movie, Fatal Attraction—and could not let it go. He is a classic harasser. I had enough of him until now. Deaf community is very small. I was informed by friends that Jeffrey used […] Sat, Apr 29 2017 “Professionals” Who Lacks Deaf Discourses The Last Hiccup I forgot to remember my boyish grin anymore. My days in Pacific Northwest—plenty of harsh scenes haphazardly joined together, making my way here and there, surviving into a society filled with hatred and death threats. My childhood was an endless circuit of changing scenery from mainstreaming schools that covered up all the secrets. The town […] Fri, Apr 28 2017 The Meeting With Dirksen Bauman in 2014 The Last Hiccup Lincoln Memorial. 2013. May 21 2014. It was 11 AM. I was asked to come in and meet with Dirksen Bauman—I was walking into ASL/Deaf Studies department looking for Dirksen whom was sitting with Gene Mirus in Gene’s office, I waved to Gene, and he signs with BIG cow eyes looking like he was about […] Fri, Apr 28 2017 The Truth about Authentic of ASL in Deaf Community The Last Hiccup Thu, Apr 27 2017 AliceCal liked this Why I was Rejected A Future Doctoral Degree The Last Hiccup I had experienced plenty of subsequent financial hardships for the last 20 years and the likelihood of getting a higher education was much difficult with receiving threats and harassment and I also experienced adverse consequences including stigmatization and differential treatment by BIT (Behavioral Intervention Team) and the university, not only that but I experienc... Wed, Apr 26 2017 Scholarship Has Nothing to do with Past Mishaps The Last Hiccup I must admit that I was shocked to know that I was awarded. I was very happy that I had been awarded a scholarship for my graduate studies at Gallaudet University. It shows that the scholarship committee had looked at my intellectual potential and ideas, and they wanted me in. My award had nothing to […] Wed, Apr 26 2017 The Display on the Scaffold The Last Hiccup Visiting Gallaudet University for the first time. 2010. I was so sure it was my name calling for my career. I was really happy. After spending 20+ years trying to change my life around, my late mentor Carl Schroeder and I were eating lunch at his house in rural Oregon and once asked me if […] Tue, Apr 25 2017 Baby Step to Reveal My Life The Last Hiccup 1984. Lewisville Park. My dad and my brother in the background. (I never liked Nike!) I would walk through the same paths in rural area where I grew up living in country on 400 acres, being lonely where my life was destroyed there, my father asked me why I would stand hopeless in the middle […] Mon, Apr 24 2017 The Stigma of a Deaf Returned Citizen The Last Hiccup 12 years old kid. I do not even know what happiness meant after that. I was just a stupid 12 years old kid. I made very poor choices. I came from a broken home. I did not have many friends. Yes, I am a returned citizen for 21 years and counting. When I was […] Sun, Apr 23 2017 The Reflection of a Giant Mirror at Gallaudet University The Last Hiccup Imagine the giant mirror at Gallaudet University We all ask why there is no event celebrating 200 years of ASL and the birth of Deaf Education at Gallaudet University. The only thing coming out of Gallaudet is the video message by President Roberta “Bobbi” Cordano. Gallaudet University would not exist without Laurent Clerc and […] Sat, Apr 22 2017 napedCab liked this Ignorance Continues….. The Last Hiccup I was a patient there for a while before I was discharged recently (today) for a heart-related condition. When I found out the sign on the door where I was assigned to be in a room, the ignorance about Deaf people by labelling them “hearing impaired”–a damaging image of Deaf people. What I do […] Fri, Apr 21 2017 At the Center of White Privilege: Altering Deaf People of... The Last Hiccup I am 42 years old male, my government skin is white, and a direct line with indigenous people in my family, I will copy and paste this powerful statement that today people still thinks Indigenous people are “people of color”: A common phrase used to describe minority or underrepresented populations is “people of color.” American […] Fri, Apr 21 2017 ASL Day: The Glory of Hearing People The Last Hiccup I decided to write this blog on behalf of Deaf people, whose culture is appropriated by and for the glory of hearing people. ASL Day is supposed to honor and award given to Deaf people. They because they are the innovators of ASL. Without ASL, we have no past, no society, no culture, no relationships, […] Fri, Apr 14 2017 A Witch Hunt: America 1883 The Last Hiccup Over the last couple of years, I have been meeting some of Deaf people who were colonized by Alexander Graham Bell’s witch-hunt. Words are too great to describe. The practices of Alexander Graham Bell Association bring in the climate of environmental hate. After reading a book, “The Colonizer and the Colonized” written by Albert Memmi for my […] Thu, Apr 13 2017 Sean Spicer Whitewashes Deaf Holocaust Survivors and Victims The Last Hiccup I am still in disgust what Sean Spicer, the White House Press Secretary said to the world, “Hitler didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons.”—To me, it is a human militarization language as well as whitewashing America. Do you realize that Spicer also used the violence of hate in denial that he confronts Racism, Anti-Semitism, and all […] Wed, Apr 12 2017 The Long Silence of Forgotten Audism The Last Hiccup Since Tom Humphries coined “Audism” in late ‘70s for his Ph.D., his vision of seeing a lot of Deaf people being oppressed so frightening that as Tom did not give any professional lectures about it. Almost four decades later, Humphries does not believe in it to pretend that Audism exist. Is Audism controversial? I remember reading […] Mon, Apr 10 2017 Pastor Mark Ehrlichmann and its Jesus Camp The Last Hiccup Once you join HEARD (Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf), you need to praise Jesus first. Is that considered a religious oppression? Remember a documentary film called Jesus Camp that was made in 2006, it was so bad and offensive to their human rights. It was really awful. According to Mark Ehrichlmann, a pastor […] Sun, Apr 09 2017 Lisa Lampanelli: Queen of Hate-Monger in Deaf Community
The Last Hiccup Look at the date and the namesake of the theatre. April 8th. The theatre named after President Lincoln. It is the date when President Lincoln signed an important history to give Deaf people a new life to breathe for higher education by establishing National Deaf Mute College in 1864. I saw the sign when I […] Fri, Apr 07 2017 |
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