China continues to intensify their censorship of the World Wide Web. People in China can’t even look at innocous pictures that a friend has put up on “flickr.com.” Why? Because “flickr” has also been used to post pictures of the protests in Tinanmen square in 1989. Apparently, the risk that a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )It seems that a man with Ushers Syndrome has successfully advocated with the Brighton and Hove City Council for better access for hard of hearing people. You can at check out the story.
Now maybe you’re thinking, “I’m not hard of hearing, I’m DEAF. And I don’t have Usher’s Syndrome. And [...]
Recently, I posted a rant about, among other things, how annoyingly difficult it can be simply to find information about captioned movies in the theater. Well, one of the people who posted a comment there alerted me to a resource I hadn’t known about before.
Maybe everyone else in the Deaf blogosphere have known about [...]
Sometimes it surprises some Deaf people to realize that, hey, we’re not the only community to experience heated debate, or hot controversies, or virulent disagreement.
Or maybe it’s only a surprise to people who are both relatively young and also far more insular than they realize? Or a surprise mainly to people who subconsciously [...]
I officially started this blog with the intention of using it to focus on issues related to the reunification of the broader Gallaudet community in the aftermath of the protests last fall. That has expanded to include general diversity issues in the Deaf (and deaf) community(ies), including deafblind people, racism, Deaf on deaf (and [...]
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