You know, on a theoretical level, I “understand” audism. I can see how the social structures have hearing down as the default in so many ways, above and beyond just the obvious ones. I can see how the state of being deaf is medicalized and so on.
But on an emotional level, […]

OK, before I completely lose my nerve, here’s a vlog…after Amy’s kind comments on some other ones, I thought I might as well post one here. Please be patient, I’ve only been learning ASL since January…it’s a lot of fun, though! Pardon the mistakes, but if I keep revising till I’m […]

I should note, I am writing these sorts of articles hopefully for the benefit of parents of deaf children trying to decide what’s best for their children, by describing my experiences and thoughts. This isn’t a paean to self-pity; rather this is something I’m beginning to recognize now that I’ve been learning ASL for […]

We’ve had various discussions here on DeafRead about the issues raised by anonymous comments, especially those that that do not contribute to the discussion but are disruptive, harrassing, and antagonistic. This is an issue of concern at large, as can be seen by this excellent post by Theresa Nielsen Hayden over at her blog […]

Over the last couple of months I have found myself objecting to the term “oralist,” at least as applied to myself. In addition, the more I contemplate the terms “oral failure” and “oral success,” the angrier I get. Why?
Let’s take “oralist” first. I can see that it’s used in […]

I found this question very interesting. Now, I am what would be considered an “oral success.” However, like John, I am very careful, and actually have been for years: even not being aware of deaf culture, etc, I knew my story wasn’t typical and should not be used to support oralism across the […]

So this last weekend I went to a Silent Weekend activity up in the local mountains. Not sure how high up it was, maybe 6,000 feet? Just above the treeline and up a rather convoluted mountain road.
I hadn’t been up here in a while and it was very good to smell […]

Well I finally got to see Through Deaf Eyes this morning (actually half last night and half this morning; it’s been a busy few days). I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. I should note that my perspective on this is as an orally educated deaf person; I have been largely ignorant of deaf culture […]

Someone uploaded Through Deaf Eyes (with the captions turned on) to GoogleVideo! I’ve just safely downloaded the little sucker to my laptop at 909M — since I suspect it will get yanked shortly for copyright violation or somesuch. (NB to you nasty DRM folks - I have preordered the DVD so your […]