Derek à la ASL

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Are you an ASL or ITP student? Perhaps a newly minted interpreter?

Wonder why your eyes get so tired and burn so much at the end of the day or at the end of a ASL meeting?

Answer: White Muscle

Generally large, (powerful) muscle that is utilized SHORT TERM, e.g., leg muscles of a…

thelegalizeddeafies:

As Deaf advocate and member of Deaf community, If this happened, I’d be very dead-seriously disappointed in National Association for the Deaf’s mixed message on Civil rights as well as Dennis Daugaard, first CODA governor of South Dakota.

Everybody should have the right to marry someone they love. Marriage is not between men and women. Marriage is between two people truly in love and make marriage work without doubts regardless of your sex, skin color, disability and appearance.

Read the full article on Deaf Politics

Peace and Love,
Mike

ewitty:

#captionTHIS

Further information regarding captioning and accessibility can be found at:

Forbes article on CC Upgrades, Searchability and Why It’s Personal:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhumphrey/2012/02/29/youtubes-closed-captio…

GLAD’s lawsuit against CNN:
http://www.gladinc.org/information-center/in-the-news/2011/breaking-news-cnn-…

NAD’s lawsuit against Netflix:
http://www.nad.org/news/2011/6/nad-files-disability-civil-rights-lawsuit-agai…

Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning:
http://ccacaptioning.org/

More Benefits of captions:
http://curbcut.net/accessibility/the-benefits-of-captions-legit/

Get a “Stop Audism” t-shirt!
http://www.handsay.com

An Ink & Salt Production
Special thanks to Ben Jarashow for the Pierre Desloges quote!

surelock:

So glad the PSA was online so I didn’t have to actually go to Times Square.

(via thelegalizeddeafies)

thesedeafeyes:

My performances at our Deaf Event this past weekend.

It starts about halfway through a song.

I did Pictures of You by The Last Goodnight and King of Anything by Sara Bareilles.

And it was COOOOOLD!!!! ((but an absolute blast!!))

Edit:: I left my hearing aids at home this day (cuz I’m brilliant!). So I’m kind of off on a lot of places and have to look down at people to find the beat again. Thankfully it was loud and the stage was wooden so I could feel it pretty well through the floor.

Emma, you were selected, nay, called upon to be fabulous… You’ve succeeded! Woot!

My friend Jessica freezing while terpin Beyonce at the Silent ASL Takeover of Fountain Square in Cincinnati! Get it gurl!

ORANGE-THROAT (Facebook Group) →

thesedeafeyes:

ewitty:

Welcome to Linguistics of Accidentally Signed Language (ASL).

We all consume huge amounts of media on a daily basis.

How many times have we run across an uninformed individual holding a particular ASL handshape at a significant spatial-location with a meaningful palm-orientation? Ever watch a movie where someone beautifully combines, movement, handshape, location, palm-orientation, and nonmanual markers into something gorgeously unintended?

Think of this as a space for documenting people whose forehead is very WINDSHIELD-WIPER #9 when it comes to visual language.

Are you ‘F’-to-chin at picking up on such aforemetioned phenomena? Take a snapshot, snip a video clip — add a creative caption and share it with the group.

Turn on your ASL eyes and you’ll notice the ASL-impaired ORANGE-THROAT themselves all the time!

I am legit going to enjoy this! c: