The Importance of Storytelling to Address Deaf Disempowerment
Chapter One in Deaf Eyes on Interpreting (2018) edited by Thomas K. Holcomb and David H. Smith. View the ASL summary of this [...]
Deaf Schools: TRUE-BUSINESS Deaf?—20 Years Later
By Trudy Suggs Read the 1997 article or the 2007 article. Scroll down to see my thoughts about this year's results. (For a [...]
Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2) GalleryNearly 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 Suggs (Click here for my thoughts on this story in ASL and English). PART 2 (Read Part 1 here) Zeke [...]
Reflections on “Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students”
Video description: Trudy Suggs, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair, is wearing a black cardigan over a black shirt with green and white dots. [...]
My letter, 26 years later
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 [...]
A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People GalleryA Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People
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A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People
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 [...]
#iamdeaf
In response to the recent AGB letter controversy, Robin Horwitz has created an #iamdeaf page on Facebook, and I was among the people he [...]
Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due
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 [...]
Deaf Women Supporting Deaf Women
This article originally appeared in Get a Z Life Magazine. When you put a group of women together to work, what do you get? [...]
Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world
(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 [...]