I stood back, struck with amazement and sadness at the furor, hurt, and anger within the Deaf Community. Are we so different from each other that we truly cannot understand each other and come to full acceptance of everybody?
First of all, I do not want to see anyone hurt, nor do I want anyone fired from […]
I’ve thought long and hard about this. I have encouraged DBC twice to become more transparent. I’ve asked two DBC leaders to vp with me, so we can discuss this further, but they both weren’t ‘available’. In e-mails, I asked them why they don’t want to acknowledge to the Deaf Community that they practice Deafhood […]
Two nights ago I got this angry comment in my blog:
# 101. “THERE’S NO ANTI-RACIST TRAINING AT THE NAD CONFERENCE. THERE’S NO RACIST COMPONENT IN THE DBC. It’s a white deaf world.
Here’s a preposterous proposal circulating at the NAD conference:
Title: Deafhood training
Introduced by: Ralph Singleton
Seconded by: David Reynolds
Proposed motion: the NAD board and all headquarters staff […]
In my last post DBC: Confusing Messages, I asked for clarification about the statements of a DBC representative quoted in the newspaper article as audism and cochlear implants weren’t mentioned in the mission statement of Deaf Bilingual Coalition:
“The two groups will bring their competing agendas to Milwaukee in separate national conferences this week: one that views […]
Deaf Bilingual Coalition began as a humble group with John Egbert and a handful of Deaf Leaders last July to discuss about promotion of ASL. The idea was sparked by Amy Cohen Efron’s Greatest Irony where hearing babies are encouraged to learn sign language to communicate while their vocal cords are immature, but deaf babies […]
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