A Challenge Fer Y'All
RidorLIVE My question for y’all to ponder today. Can you identify which individual is hearing in three pictures? And which ones are Deaf? The reason why I am doing this is to test whether if one can tell which one is Deaf or hearing by looking at the pictures like above. I have this plausible theory that [...]
Tue, Sep 26 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

A protester threatened with physical violence
Mishka Zena There is a disturbing post that was permitted to be posted at a popular list.serv. A person was upset with someone who had an issue with a former member of FSSA, who recently resigned and threatened to commit physical violence, i.e., "cage your mouth" if this protester didn't shut up about the former FSSA member. I have few questions: Why was this post containing a [...]
Tue, Sep 26 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Gallaudet Students - Rude?
Mike McConnell I came across this blogsite that had an anonymous commenter regarding Galladuet University students (I suppose the commenter is talking about Gally students) who live off campus in one of those semi-ruined historical Washington D.C. buildings unless they happened to be one of those fixer-uppers seen in Georgetown, which I seriously doubt. Anyway, this hearing person [...]
Tue, Sep 26 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Revolution in ASL
DeafJoke.tv Revolution in ASL by MikeSZZ For fun one lazy day, I did a run through of The Beatles’ "Revolution" signed in ASL for the first time. Captions provided. Something’s new for my subscribers for the time being, thanks! Also dedicated to the Gally protesters. (Ed: I forgot to include the opening part of a flying jet [...] [...]
Tue, Sep 26 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

A Story from my Desk Calendar
Kalalau's Korner A Story from my Desk CalendarI have a teacher's daily desk calendar. It was one of presents for this year that I got from my students which was nice. On Wednesday, September 20th, there is a story page on my calendar that I had deliberately ignored. In its opening sentence it mentions something about a church, and to me all churches practice the tenth coin capitalism. [...]
Tue, Sep 26 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The next few steps for Deaf Blogland
Jared Evans We are witnessing the birth of the networked Deaf Blogland. Several things need to happen first before we'll start to see the change taking place. It's my hope that DeafRead.com will be the genesis behind it all. First, there needs to be a huge increase in the number of active Deaf bloggers. [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf or Deaf-Hard of Hearing?
RidorLIVE Diversity is good. If you look at the history within the Deaf Communities across the nation.  It was Deaf people, mainly the ones with ASL users, who pushed for the changes in Deaf Education and living standards for all.  It was us who pushed for the closed captioning on televisions, TDDs and yes, relay services.  It [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Liberal Gates of Hell - Airports and their CNNs
Mike McConnell CNN's Eye of Sauron.John writes in Powerline about his experience going through one airport and noticed all of the TVs turned on to CNN with it's volume cranked up blaring away incessantly for 24 hours. So many of them? In all airports I daresay? Take a look CNN's airport network website:CNN Airport Network is available in 42 of the busiest U.S. airports and is seen [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf Awareness Week
Jamie Berke (About.com) The last week in September is always for recognizing deafness and hearing loss - it is called Deaf Awareness Week. Did your community do anything this week for Deaf Awareness...
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deaf Boo!
DeafJoke.tv Deaf Boo Sign (hehe...) [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Jean's Drifting Day, ASC and a Deaf boy on PBS
Jean Hi everyone! For your information, I couldn't access my gmail account. It kept kickng me out every time I logged in to check my email. I don't know what technical problem I have. I had to sit it out and wait for my roommate to come home this Tuesday from the field trip she is on right now to fix it. Sorry for the inconvenience. =(There, altough, is a bright side. The [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Blogging: Taking that first step
DeafRead Human Editor Perhaps you’ve read something on DeafRead.com and found yourself wanting to post a juicy tidbit of your own. But you are afraid or hesitant to actually type it out and post it for the world to see. It?s a very difficult step to take, especially if you have never blogged before! People feel it’s [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Welcome to Banjo's World
Banjo's World vlog [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

DeafRead Themes!
DeafRead Human Editor "All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy" For a change, I decided I needed to mix it up and do something fun for DeafRead. Fun for both you and me, that is. Welcome the DeafRead Themes! [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Tecnocato: Closed Captioned Videocasts done the right way.
Jared Evans I was impressed by how Tecnocato has incorporated closed captioning within their videocasts. Tecnocato is based in Puerto Rico and they have gotten many requests from English-speaking people to add subtitles. Obviously, they felt that it was worth their time...
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Relay Services - caught in the act
DeafBiz On one hand, many hearing people are turning down accepting relay calls because they think it’s telemarketing or a scam. On the other hand, for those that do accept relay call, be very careful not to say anything you don’t want the deaf caller to hear. Here’s a tale of a Ford dealership bad-mouthing a deaf customer [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Irony alert - deaf podcast
DeafBiz Did a Google search on “deaf podcast” and this is what I found: DeafSpot’s Podcast - nothing thereDeafstation podcast- nothing there Podcast tagged with deaf -There’s two listings, neither which has to do with deafness. On the other hand, here’s what was offered: The DisabilityNation Podcast: Podcast Transcripts fo Deaf/Hard of Hearing- [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

348: The Heart of Audism
Deaf in the City 348: The Heart of AudismThe worst kind of audism, to me, is when you explain to the other person your communication boundaries and they persistently ignore them. Perfect example? Ridor's story about his father:The nurse saw me there and she asked me if I could interpret. I said ?No! You can?t do that!? She asked me if I have a hearing sibling who can do that. I [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Prison? No way... wait a minute, why not? Nah.
Marvin Miller (Laurent, SD) Candace McCullough of Alternative Solutions Center blogged about the fact that fully accessible prison was on the bottom of our poll list, and I thought she brought up several interesting points. Now, I can not imagine advocating building prison in our town -- especially in the early years, even though it would generate a lot of jobs in the town -- because of its [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

MÖSDEUX REINVENTED
Mosdeux We spent most of August and September redesigning to reflect our designers’ attention to detail and incorporation of the latest web technologies. The new design is not the only feast for your eyes. We have launched two more teaser clips for your entertainment: Keith Wann in ResonareTill Domestic Violence Do Us Part [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Legitimate expressions of protest and Cyberbullying
Mishka Zena What is the line between legitimate expressions of protest and "cyberbullying"? Social activism is the process people engage in when they want to effect change; cyberbullies want change, too, but rather than try to influence others through reason and debate, they employ such tactics as intimidation, harassment and character assassination. Cyberbullying is displayed [...]
Mon, Sep 25 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

A moment of Zen
Jared Evans I read with great interest Jean?s blog post ?Blog Triumphalism? In the blog post, she mentioned that DeafRead.com was brought up in her sociology class. This naturally piqued my curiosity since the essentiality of DeafRead is sociological and political in...
Sun, Sep 24 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

International Day of the Deaf
Adam Stone Did you know that yesterday was the International Day of the Deaf? I think it’s shameful that it’s such a non-holiday in America’s deaf community. So yesterday, I was introduced to the deaf community living in Sri Lanka’s southern province (although most were from the greater Matara area). I’ve already been to the school a couple [...]
Sun, Sep 24 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Lanka Ashok Leyland
Adam Stone Well, duh. Ayubowan doesn’t just mean good-bye. It also means hello, blessings, and all sorts of nice pleasantries. You say it while bowing a little and putting your hands together as in prayer. But don’t get the idea that people are ayubowaning each other all throughout Sri Lanka. No one has greeted me in this [...]
Sun, Sep 24 2006 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Slemo Warrigan Takes a Stand!
DHH-CommUNITY ASL is a beautiful language. I believe in its beauty. I believe in its tremendous magic touch when it comes to the effective instruction of Deaf individuals from pre-k to tertiary education programs in the US. Should the Gallaudet leadership deem it appropriate to adopt ASL as an official language one of those days (yes, eternal [...] [...]
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