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 [...]
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? [...]
Speech given at a high school in 2015
The following is a speech I gave at a public high school's world languages ceremony in 2015. Read the article I wrote about this [...]
Open letter to Jason Curry, sComm CEO
(To learn more about this open letter, go here.) March 30, 2015 Mr. Curry: Thank you for the video you released on Friday, March [...]
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 [...]
Don’t Shoot Me
This article originally appeared at i711.com. When I read of Sammy Thompson’s shooting in Arkansas (http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-brf-shooting-deaf-man,0,2892033,print.story), I thought, “Not another one!” I think that [...]