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Warning: Documentary is tough to watch
Recently, I attended the International Deaf History conference in Toronto. There were over 325 participants and they all represented 25 different countries. Most (if not all) participants were all Deaf or Hard of Hearing with their own signed languages. I had an excellent time communicating especially with those who spoke French including from ( Read more... ) -
Shit... I'm waiting for the sun to shine.
I always struggled with depression and was diagnosed at a completely insignificant time/age. What I meant by that was that it wasn't exactly like Elizabeth Wurtzel in university or a 12 years old Anais Nin writing in her journal. I was diagnosed at an age when I thought everyone else was crazy.
The only thing that soothes my depressive state has ( Read more... ) -
Dirty Sign Language Ban -- the dispute
There is a young hearing woman Kristin who is posting videos of dirty slurs in sign language on youtube. Of course since she's a fairly young attractive white waif-like chick, she was going to get a shitload of attention from neckbeards and perverts who knows nothing about sign language. It's cool when a hearing person do a dumb music video using ( Read more... ) -
inspired by recent documentary/event
Since watching 'MISS Representation' (an excellent documentary -- especially for young teenagers/adults), I came to confront several issues within myself which is this unspoken internalised misogyny. A few years ago, I had no qualms in calling women out of their names, degrading their choices and being altogether a real asshole to a lot of women ( Read more... ) -
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My 20 years old self loved 'Buffalo 66' because of Vincent Gallo.
My 33 years old self loves 'Buffalo 66' because of the rest of the cast including Christina Ricci, Angelica Huston and Ben Gazzara. Gallo is just fodder.
My 13 years old self loved 'Terminator 2' because of the action sequences and the cute boy named Edward Furlong.
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Social Justice laziness
I haven't posted much lately on LJ due to work-load and being more of a reader than a writer. When you get older, all the SOCIAL JUSTICE! feelings that you had mainfest itself in several ways including choosing your battles, sitting back with the eyerolls, and offering water to those who do the fighting (why bother posting more comments to what has ( Read more... ) -
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So it is still a surprise to people that I've been single for awhile. This kind of perplexing look or confusion are mostly from MEN when I tell them I have not been laid for awhile or in a relationship. Women don't give me that much shit as men do. Women, in actuality, just say the usual: "You'll find someone".
Men's response? Disbelief.
Here's the ( Read more... ) -
NO SMALL TALK!
I have a spanking new smart phone and I'm already intimidated by it for several reasons but most especially an app that can tell you exactly where your "friends" are and if they are nearby. How near? I don't want to know but it's also kinda a good thing so if there's someone i don't want to see, I can just cross the street. If there is one thing ( Read more... ) -
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I know way too much about the ask_me_anything community and their members but I'm not sure if that's necessarily a good or bad thing. It's just a bit odd for me that I recognize people by their names and not their username even though I don't participate as much in the community ( Read more... ) -
The Tipping Point
Below is a great video about a person's experience regarding to growing up oral and deciding to stop using his voice. This is pretty spot-on in regard to my experience about using my voice with the hearing community today. I speak very well for a deaf woman. I can hold my hold in most social settings but I rarely know what the hell anyone is saying ( Read more... )
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