Deaf stuff: October 2005 Archives

interconnections and overlaps

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It was a heck of a day. Gorgeous (summer?!) weather packaging a raft of tough things. One of my roomie's dogs was hit by a car and killed yesterday (flashback :-( city), and a deaf man who was a total character also died over the weekend. I'll miss John's sense of humor, not only was he a tease, but he could do it with such a straight face you'd think you'd really messed up. I put one or two over on him, too, but I'm sure if we'd kept score he won. :-)

Death is hard though, both the actual and symbolic kinds.


same name, different person?

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Funny - googled myself (as if I have nothing better to do this morning), and found this poem by another "Stephanie Kent". Reinforces the importance of that middle "Jo"!

there's also an alias making loads of bucks (listed by Forbes). envy?

Here's one I hadn't come across before, about the disableism workshop Shemaya and I did at Mt Holyoke a few years back.


An Ad that inverts disablism

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This EDF ad depicts what it's like to be disabled by one's environment. The French subtitle translates:

"The world is harder when it's not made with you in mind."

Sent by Nick to the DeafVermont listserv. :-) The woman shocked by a signer is hilarious - no linguistic mediation skills whatsoever!

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