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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)
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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)

By trudy|2024-12-07T20:10:15-05:00January 26, 2018|

By Trudy Suggs (Click here for my thoughts on this story in ASL and English). PART 2 (Read Part 1 here) Zeke [...]

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)
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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)

By trudy|2018-01-26T00:04:13-05:00January 25, 2018|

Illinois School for the Deaf Main Building (Courtesy of 1969 Illinois Advance) By Trudy Suggs PART 1 (Click here for Part 2) It [...]

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My letter, 26 years later
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My letter, 26 years later

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My letter, 26 years later

By trudy|2018-01-26T00:11:57-05:00July 15, 2016|

Video description: Trudy Suggs, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair, is wearing a purple v-necked sweater that ties at the neckline. She is seated in [...]

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A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People
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A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People

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A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People

By trudy|2016-05-12T11:42:53-05:00May 10, 2016|

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of NADmag; download a PDF version of the article. Video description: Trudy, a white woman with shoulder-length [...]

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Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due
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Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due

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Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due

By trudy|2016-03-25T13:06:14-05:00March 25, 2016|

Video description: Trudy, a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair, is wearing a deep royal blue sweater. She is seated in the corner with [...]

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Deaf Women Supporting Deaf Women
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Deaf Women Supporting Deaf Women

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Deaf Women Supporting Deaf Women

By trudy|2024-12-07T21:42:51-05:00March 1, 2016|

This article originally appeared in Get a Z Life Magazine. When you put a group of women together to work, what do you get? [...]

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Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world
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Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world

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Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world

By trudy|2016-02-14T21:06:29-05:00February 14, 2016|

(Reposted from my Facebook page, February 13, 2016) My (deaf) daughters and I went out for dinner, and my four-year-old asked me why it [...]

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sComm: An Update
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sComm: An Update

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sComm: An Update

By trudy|2015-07-28T21:40:04-05:00July 27, 2015|

Read my original article and open letter (available in ASL and English) before reading the below. Warning: This article includes graphic language. In March, I wrote [...]

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Deaf Life Magazine Person of the Month

By trudy|2023-05-03T13:55:13-05:00May 14, 2015|

How awesome. At the risk of tooting my own horn (does it make a difference if I don't hear the horn?), I learned that [...]

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An email from sComm

By trudy|2015-10-20T18:12:52-05:00April 2, 2015|

My hosting company sent me this earlier today. Hi Trudy - We were contacted by the below company with the stated concern. Can you [...]

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