Archive for April, 2004


ON HAND: Costly booths

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
Over $8,000.
That’s how much I’d have to pay as a small business owner for an exhibition booth at each of the various expos and conferences this year alone. With booth rates varying from $350 to $800 for deaf-owned businesses (and not much cheaper[.....]



ON HAND: Deaf publications

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
I’m frustrated.
More than a year ago, I wrote a piece for NAD’s Members Only Area about the demise of publications in the deaf community. One of the things I wrote in that article was that people seemed to think that running a[.....]



ON HAND: Equal access for immigrants and deaf people

This originally appeared in The Tactile Mind Weekly in Trudy’s ON HAND column.
Last February, I met with a state representative from my town to ask her to sponsor a proposed amendment to an existing bill. Although the majority of people in Minnesota are white, we also have a large population of Hmong, Somalian, and[.....]