This originally in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
Here’s what I think is one of the best resources on deaf history.
Program books.
Yup. Program books. As I wrote last week, I’ve just moved to a new house, so this has been a summer of unpacking for me. I spent a lot of[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
I just moved into a new house, so my partner, Randy, and I have been constantly unpacking, organizing, and going through stuff from decades ago. A couple of weeks ago, we opened a box that had some things from Randy’s days at the[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
“Education of the deaf.”
“The field of deafness.”
I used to consider these phrases absolutely acceptable. But then a friend pointed out that people wouldn’t dare to say, “Education of the oriental” or “the field of blackness.”
She further said that if we truly want[.....]
This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
I was reading the newsletter of a deaf organization the other day, which reported that the organization was experiencing a $350,000 deficit.
I wrote to this same organization many years ago asking what they did for the grassroots deaf community. When I wrote[.....]