http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena Endless Pondering Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:36:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/07/16/deaf-community-cultural-values-and-double-standards/ 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 ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/07/11/mz-an-ex-founding-dbc-core-member/ 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 ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/07/10/lack-of-diversity-in-nad-nad-responds/ 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 ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/07/08/dbc-bilingualism-audism-and-deafhood/ 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 ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/06/30/dbc-confusing-messages/ Originally posted on August 7th, 2007   AGB In Bed with Cochlear Implant Companies AGB is a non-profit organization to which parents turn for ‘unbiased’ information and advice. How can it be unbiased if it’s sponsored by commercial corporations invested in making millions of dollars and so far hasn’t shown reliable data for ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/06/26/agbell-in-bed-with-cochlear-implant-companies/ Commentary: I find it somewhat odd that Sorenson is appointed as the newest BoT member by Gallaudet, considering the long-standing tensions between the Deaf Community and Sorenson due its business practices. MZ "Inside Gallaudet Two new trustees join the board   Two new members of the Board of Trustees who were approved for appointment by ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/06/19/sorenson-the-newest-gallaudet-bot-member/ Commentary: This is a post created last Feb when people accused the ASL vloggers of not being accessible to non-ASL users. I am reposting this as I feel some hearing and oral deaf people don't fully understand the issues. Some of the ASL users have never achieved full linguistic competency ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/06/18/wait-blogs-arent-fully-accessible-either/ MORGANTON - A local man was sentenced up to 33 years in prison for the kidnapping and second-degree murder of a Morganton woman four years ago. Christopher Robert Lambert, 39, pleaded guilty to the 2004 kidnapping and murder of Tallie Antolin on Tuesday. Charged with first-degree murder, Lambert pleaded guilty to ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/06/04/justice-for-tallie-deaf-ex-boyfriend-sentenced-33-years-in-jail/ When I first heard about a hearing actor being cast in a deaf leading role, my initial response was dismay.  Learning it was Hamill's decision left me astounded.   The more I ponder this, the more questions I have.   Does this mean Hamill sees himself as being more of a hearing person than a ... http://blog.deafread.com/mishkazena/2008/05/12/is-hamill-right-or-wrong/