There’s a fair furor at present over DBC, the details of which I hardly need to recount. But I came across this, and it has got me thinking:
The deep division between the subgroups reflects the contrasting core values of deafness. For the oral deaf and users of c.i. people, being able to hear is […]

I had my hair cut today. A fairly pedestrian activity, I suppose: washing the hair, snipping and clipping it, applying ridiculous amounts of mousse and blow drying the final product. I do all this in silence, of course, since once my hair’s washed it’s too wet for the hearing aids. The place that I go […]

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 […]

I’m seeing various comments around the ‘net indicating that for some, “hearing loss” is a reasonably acceptable umbrella term for all deafies, at least as used by hearies. I’m not that convinced, and I’d like to explain why…
One thing I’ve noticed in reading through blogs by deaf people (and “deaf” I do consider an […]

One thing I’m noticing, when I go out to deaf gatherings, when I’m asked where I went to school, is that I’m having trouble conveying that I went to a plain school, no deaf or oral program at all. How would I best explain this? I sign school, mainstream, all children hearing, I only […]

I’m still thinking about whether I want to run with an acronym like DOH I’m afraid I’m a product of my times since I keep seeing that as “D’oh” a la Homer Simpson.
But - Deaf of Hearing — there are many of us and we’re quite a varied lot. There’s many of […]

This entry is sparked in part by seeing people, even well intentioned ones, ask the most inane and intrusive questions about the nature of deafness of deaf people or a group of deaf people. It’s certainly not limited to deafness; I see this same behavior with respect anything that’s “different” from the norm.
The person […]

This has been an interesting dialogue. Although I’ve already weighed in with a couple comments over at Toby’s blog where he posted about it here and here, I found that I wanted to examine this in more detail so rather than clutter up a comments section, I’m posting here…
In a nutshell, a deaf woman […]

I have a few thoughts knocking around in my head, so bear with me as I attempt to sort through this. I’ve been mulling over Der Sankt’s Treasure posts here and here. And then coincidentally I’ve been reading Forbidden Signs which notes that in the 1910’s and 1920’s a number of deaf people […]

Just stumbled, courtesy of and , across the Nicaraguan Sign Language issue. It sounds absolutely fascinating: Here is an article from NY Times (”A Linguistic Big Bang“), plus some further discussion by ozarke on her journal. There’s any number of fascinating aspects to this, but to summarize, deaf children in Nicaragua have […]