shira.
@shiraalg.bsky.social
educator & artist // DeafDisabled //
EdD student // educational leadership & policy // exploring Deaf education’s
potential in shaping the world
EdD student // educational leadership & policy // exploring Deaf education’s
potential in shaping the world
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The “largest landback deal in California history” was just completed, and it could be a model for the future.
In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River
More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.
grist.org
June 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The “largest landback deal in California history” was just completed, and it could be a model for the future.
c rises
c rises
over the land
how can you sleep?
how can you be asleep?
(American Sign Language (ASL) translation note: The sign for CRISIS is the rising and crossing of the arms with the hands in a “C” formation.)
c rises
over the land
how can you sleep?
how can you be asleep?
(American Sign Language (ASL) translation note: The sign for CRISIS is the rising and crossing of the arms with the hands in a “C” formation.)
May 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
c rises
c rises
over the land
how can you sleep?
how can you be asleep?
(American Sign Language (ASL) translation note: The sign for CRISIS is the rising and crossing of the arms with the hands in a “C” formation.)
c rises
over the land
how can you sleep?
how can you be asleep?
(American Sign Language (ASL) translation note: The sign for CRISIS is the rising and crossing of the arms with the hands in a “C” formation.)
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️⚧️
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The ASL sign for ‘transgender’ is similar to the ASL sign for ‘beautiful’ but is signed on the middle of the chest.
Illustration by Deaf trans artist Carlisle Robinson.
#TDOV #DeafTrans #DeafTransgender #DeafTransPride #ASL #QueerASLSigns
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The ASL sign for ‘transgender’ is similar to the ASL sign for ‘beautiful’ but is signed on the middle of the chest.
Illustration by Deaf trans artist Carlisle Robinson.
#TDOV #DeafTrans #DeafTransgender #DeafTransPride #ASL #QueerASLSigns
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March 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️⚧️
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Did you know?⠀
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The ASL sign for ‘transgender’ is similar to the ASL sign for ‘beautiful’ but is signed on the middle of the chest.
Illustration by Deaf trans artist Carlisle Robinson.
#TDOV #DeafTrans #DeafTransgender #DeafTransPride #ASL #QueerASLSigns
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Did you know?⠀
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The ASL sign for ‘transgender’ is similar to the ASL sign for ‘beautiful’ but is signed on the middle of the chest.
Illustration by Deaf trans artist Carlisle Robinson.
#TDOV #DeafTrans #DeafTransgender #DeafTransPride #ASL #QueerASLSigns
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🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
March 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
Are there ASL-based resources for discussing immigration rights and resources for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing students? Thanks for sharing!
January 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Are there ASL-based resources for discussing immigration rights and resources for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing students? Thanks for sharing!
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
January 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
steering us toward a more collective approach to aid.
I wrote about the LA wildfires, the GoFundMes of rich people, and the long history of disaster relief reproducing inequality.
GoFundMe, Mandy Moore and the unfairness of disaster relief: ‘If you were poor before, you should stay poor’
Aid was historically seen as a way to ‘restore the status quo’. Now the actor’s bid for help amid the LA fires raises a question: who deserves to crowdfund?
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
steering us toward a more collective approach to aid.
is there a word for when you are on the cusp of crossing the expanse between you and the space that holds your capacity to create art?
January 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
is there a word for when you are on the cusp of crossing the expanse between you and the space that holds your capacity to create art?
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Don’t miss @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in the Guardian! So much wisdom, inc this:
“I feel despondent and overwhelmed by the political situation often, but then I remind myself this is by design, that those in power want to erode our resolve and [for us to] give up.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“I feel despondent and overwhelmed by the political situation often, but then I remind myself this is by design, that those in power want to erode our resolve and [for us to] give up.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
MacArthur genius Alice Wong on resistance in the new year: ‘Life is a dumpster fire, but I’m not alone’
The activist and ‘disabled oracle’ reflects on a moment that changed her life – and why she finds solace in sci-fi
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Don’t miss @sfdirewolf.bsky.social in the Guardian! So much wisdom, inc this:
“I feel despondent and overwhelmed by the political situation often, but then I remind myself this is by design, that those in power want to erode our resolve and [for us to] give up.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“I feel despondent and overwhelmed by the political situation often, but then I remind myself this is by design, that those in power want to erode our resolve and [for us to] give up.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Louder for the hearies in the back
My favorite print from liberaljane.store
“English is a language, not a way to measure someone’s intelligence.”
“English is a language, not a way to measure someone’s intelligence.”
December 20, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Louder for the hearies in the back
“…ableism is still widely a socially-accepted brand of mean.” - @novicsara.bsky.social
read about how it impacts all of us.
read about how it impacts all of us.
Today's newsletter from @novicsara.bsky.social is amazing, a great crash course in why ableism matters in all of our lives and written super accessibly. 🙌 open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
Disability rights are your (yes, you!) rights
Pandemics, eugenics, and why you (yes, you!) should care, ForRealThisTimev.2finalfinal
open.substack.com
December 6, 2024 at 2:33 AM
“…ableism is still widely a socially-accepted brand of mean.” - @novicsara.bsky.social
read about how it impacts all of us.
read about how it impacts all of us.
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking abt
1) exploring how deaf ed can effect a more just & sustainable society (it’s not by maintaining the status quo) 2) education futures outside of schools
1) exploring how deaf ed can effect a more just & sustainable society (it’s not by maintaining the status quo) 2) education futures outside of schools
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking abt
1) final project (?) on Crip linguistics examining deaf languaging practices. 2) queer crip feminist deaf studies- still broadly defined
1) final project (?) on Crip linguistics examining deaf languaging practices. 2) queer crip feminist deaf studies- still broadly defined
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking abt
1) Reexamination of the 1992 Cutileiro talks in BiH
2) Postdoc proposal: influence of the Ireland, Palestine & India partitions on partitionism in BiH
1) Reexamination of the 1992 Cutileiro talks in BiH
2) Postdoc proposal: influence of the Ireland, Palestine & India partitions on partitionism in BiH
December 4, 2024 at 1:47 AM
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking abt
1) exploring how deaf ed can effect a more just & sustainable society (it’s not by maintaining the status quo) 2) education futures outside of schools
1) exploring how deaf ed can effect a more just & sustainable society (it’s not by maintaining the status quo) 2) education futures outside of schools
*flashes lights* *stomp, stomp* hi, i’m here.
November 21, 2024 at 1:56 AM
*flashes lights* *stomp, stomp* hi, i’m here.