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 [...]
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 [...]
sComm: An Update
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 [...]
Doing More Harm than Good
(See the bottom of this page for a link to sComm's response to this and my follow-up response in both ASL and English. I have [...]
Getting to the Heart of the Matter
I first saw the term DEAF-HEART at an interpreting conference back in the early 2000s. There was a heated discussion in a workshop, and [...]
To Lead or Not to Lead? Sharing Power in the Field of Interpreting
This article originally appeared in the spring/summer 2014 issue of the RID VIEWS (Volume 31, Issue 2). View it as a PDF file: Suggs-Bowen_Article.pdf By Doug [...]
Deaf Disempowerment and Today’s Interpreter
Originally appeared at Street Leverage. Presentation given at Potomac Chapter of RID, Columbia, MD, November 2012. In the spirit of being transparent, the stories I’m about [...]
A Deaf Perspective: Cultural Respect in Sign Language Interpreting
Originally appeared at Street Leverage. A chip on her shoulder. An angry Deaf person. I will definitely NOT be attending her workshops in the future. The [...]
Far away, indeed.
Two incidents took place recently that made me think about the inherent, subconscious biases that we all carry and how they spill over into [...]