Mishka Zena

My response is a loud YES to the possibility of a Deaf blogger being sued.  I can vouch for this personally as I’ve been threatened with lawsuits.
I was asked to cover this issue by another blogger in response to the supoena of Kathleen Seidel for her post criticizing the actions of personal injury lawyers going after […]

Jordan wasn’t invited to DPN-20 Gala, as reported by several sources.
Yet Gallaudet University is funding the Jordan Chair in Leadership
I’ve been pondering over the irony ever since.
During the protest, Jordan renounced DPN publicly, stating that he never supported DPN in the first place. That declaration was a direct slap to DPN protesters and leaders, along with the Deaf […]

Reviewing what I covered last year, I was staggered by the sheer volume of the blogs produced, especially in the first half of the year. I eventually gave up adding topics after a while, so this list will suffice for now.  Overall, this should give you a better idea what topics were explored.  Covering the trial […]

During the Gallaudet protests, the emphasis among the protesters was Deaf Unity. All together, deaf people of all types, deaf of deaf, deaf of hearing, mainstreamed, oral, hard of hearing, deaf people using cochlear implants, and cued speech users united along with their hearing peers to stand up against management by intimidation and flawed administration. […]

Recently dissension bubbled up in the Gallaudet Community regarding Jordan, Fernandes, and Kimmel coming back to teach. As tenured employees, they are entitled to teach. Yet given their attacks on Gallaudet via the news media, their desire to return to a university for which they bear deep contempt and hostility is puzzling. Whatever, they do […]