KatieinSeattle
@deafcongress.bsky.social
ASL deaf-mute community college educator. linguistics, cross stitching, book reader and sci-fi fan. She/her/PRO.3
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I knew a Holocaust survivor who talked about the importance of notetaking under authoritarianism, to track what normal was and how it shifted. Here's that 🧵 with respect to disability, itself a canary in the fascist coal mine: www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/09/w...
Week 1: What Happened? - Disability Rights Watch
Things are happening quickly. We'll include a weekly round up of disability-related concerns, events, and polices on this site. Removal of the "Accessibility" page, and all ASL content from the White ...
www.disability-rights-watch.com
February 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I knew a Holocaust survivor who talked about the importance of notetaking under authoritarianism, to track what normal was and how it shifted. Here's that 🧵 with respect to disability, itself a canary in the fascist coal mine: www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/09/w...
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Not the "real targets"? What the fuck would they call rolling back mask mandates, work from home going away, gutting the CDC in the middle of three pandemics, the absolution of Medicaid, cutting back on SNAP, threatening SSI, and ending DEI initiatives? All of that affects disabled people!
Somehow people are still trying to convince me I'm overreacting because disabled people are not the "real" targets, and I'm starting to think you just mean we're not real people.
March 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Not the "real targets"? What the fuck would they call rolling back mask mandates, work from home going away, gutting the CDC in the middle of three pandemics, the absolution of Medicaid, cutting back on SNAP, threatening SSI, and ending DEI initiatives? All of that affects disabled people!
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Somehow people are still trying to convince me I'm overreacting because disabled people are not the "real" targets, and I'm starting to think you just mean we're not real people.
March 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Somehow people are still trying to convince me I'm overreacting because disabled people are not the "real" targets, and I'm starting to think you just mean we're not real people.
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Be prepare for Trump refusal to provide ASL interpreters during his briefings. NAD (National Association of the Deaf) sued Trump in his last term & prevailed I am TIRED of oppression & unfair equality for deaf rights. I am also tired of Trump’s running mouth.
www.rawstory.com/right-wing-2...
www.rawstory.com/right-wing-2...
'Sign language is woke now': Outrage over right wing's new culture war
Add sign language to the growing list of right-wing culture attacks sprouting up among conservative voices as Donald Trump's inauguration fast approaches.Critics began to pounce after conservative inf...
www.rawstory.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Be prepare for Trump refusal to provide ASL interpreters during his briefings. NAD (National Association of the Deaf) sued Trump in his last term & prevailed I am TIRED of oppression & unfair equality for deaf rights. I am also tired of Trump’s running mouth.
www.rawstory.com/right-wing-2...
www.rawstory.com/right-wing-2...
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If you look closely, he's saying the quiet part out loud. This faux interpreter outrage isn't only about making fun and being cruel, though I'm sure that's a fun bonus for them. They want to dismantle the ADA and IDEA. Both are targeted by Project 2025, and Rufo is a Heritage Foundation Fellow.
🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
January 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you look closely, he's saying the quiet part out loud. This faux interpreter outrage isn't only about making fun and being cruel, though I'm sure that's a fun bonus for them. They want to dismantle the ADA and IDEA. Both are targeted by Project 2025, and Rufo is a Heritage Foundation Fellow.
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Please stop explaining ASL & CC to me in the replies. I am deaf. I know the difference. I’m trying to say this as kindly as possible.
🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
January 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Please stop explaining ASL & CC to me in the replies. I am deaf. I know the difference. I’m trying to say this as kindly as possible.
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Call to action 🚨
Persuade journalists to cover the attack on ASL interpreters.
This isn’t the first time it’s happened. It’s on a much larger scale right now.
SEVERAL massive accounts are advocating against on X.
Persuade journalists to cover the attack on ASL interpreters.
This isn’t the first time it’s happened. It’s on a much larger scale right now.
SEVERAL massive accounts are advocating against on X.
🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
January 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Call to action 🚨
Persuade journalists to cover the attack on ASL interpreters.
This isn’t the first time it’s happened. It’s on a much larger scale right now.
SEVERAL massive accounts are advocating against on X.
Persuade journalists to cover the attack on ASL interpreters.
This isn’t the first time it’s happened. It’s on a much larger scale right now.
SEVERAL massive accounts are advocating against on X.
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🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
January 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
🔊 PSA for nondisabled people 🔊
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
It's time to step the FUCK up if you wanna be an ally.
ASL interpretation is being targeted by right wing cry baby douchebags.
Shut this shit down when you see it. SPEAK UP. This barrage of ASL hate is heavier than usual.
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DEAF TRANS LIVES MATTER
December 20, 2024 at 2:05 AM
DEAF TRANS LIVES MATTER
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Rep. Balint: "This is such a loss for this incoming president. He has been weakened by Musk, because it's clear that Musk is the one who's calling the shots. He says what the gameplan should be, Trump catches up a few hours later, and then Johnson backtracks from the deal."
December 21, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Rep. Balint: "This is such a loss for this incoming president. He has been weakened by Musk, because it's clear that Musk is the one who's calling the shots. He says what the gameplan should be, Trump catches up a few hours later, and then Johnson backtracks from the deal."
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i think it is very cool that the political press was basically uninterested in the fact that vance is openly adjacent to/pals around with far-right and Nazi-sympathetic maniacs
To those asking, here's Vance's comments.
When news broke that the terrorist in Germany was a Saudi immigrant, Vance implied blame on all immigrants/Muslims.
When it came out that the attacker was an Elon Musk fan, AfD supporter, and anti-Islam, Vance defended AfD.
He's said nothing else about it.
When news broke that the terrorist in Germany was a Saudi immigrant, Vance implied blame on all immigrants/Muslims.
When it came out that the attacker was an Elon Musk fan, AfD supporter, and anti-Islam, Vance defended AfD.
He's said nothing else about it.
December 21, 2024 at 4:36 PM
i think it is very cool that the political press was basically uninterested in the fact that vance is openly adjacent to/pals around with far-right and Nazi-sympathetic maniacs
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Bill Clinton: "People are losing faith in the institutions and in many many places, they're gonna reward the people that destroyed their faith."
December 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Bill Clinton: "People are losing faith in the institutions and in many many places, they're gonna reward the people that destroyed their faith."
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Hello friendos
Today's library tip from your librarian
Ways to watch movies/TV/documentaries/dance/opera from the library:
-physical DVD/Blu Ray
-Kanopy app
-Hoopla
-Medici.tv
(Your library might have other options, check the website or ask at the desk!)
Today's library tip from your librarian
Ways to watch movies/TV/documentaries/dance/opera from the library:
-physical DVD/Blu Ray
-Kanopy app
-Hoopla
-Medici.tv
(Your library might have other options, check the website or ask at the desk!)
December 9, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Hello friendos
Today's library tip from your librarian
Ways to watch movies/TV/documentaries/dance/opera from the library:
-physical DVD/Blu Ray
-Kanopy app
-Hoopla
-Medici.tv
(Your library might have other options, check the website or ask at the desk!)
Today's library tip from your librarian
Ways to watch movies/TV/documentaries/dance/opera from the library:
-physical DVD/Blu Ray
-Kanopy app
-Hoopla
-Medici.tv
(Your library might have other options, check the website or ask at the desk!)
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Subtitles aren’t just for deaf or hard of hearing players. They’re important for players in loud environments (who can’t use headphones), non-native speakers who rely on text to follow dialogue, and many neurodivergent folks who struggle to focus or process audio quickly. Just to mention few.
December 1, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Subtitles aren’t just for deaf or hard of hearing players. They’re important for players in loud environments (who can’t use headphones), non-native speakers who rely on text to follow dialogue, and many neurodivergent folks who struggle to focus or process audio quickly. Just to mention few.
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An important article to review!
November 17, 2024 at 2:57 AM
An important article to review!
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A systematic review of correlations between sign language and spoken/written language. This work will become an important citation for those of us striving to break anti-sign language stigmas in deaf children’s education.
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...?
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...?
Review of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the first systematic review and meta-analysis on cross-linguistic correlations between sign language and spoken/written language competences in bilingual d/Deaf learners. A total ...
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November 15, 2024 at 9:26 PM
A systematic review of correlations between sign language and spoken/written language. This work will become an important citation for those of us striving to break anti-sign language stigmas in deaf children’s education.
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...?
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...?
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About that workshop offering CEUs on interpreting about celebrities... I wrote a critique here.
The Interpreter’s Task (Not)
Above is a screenshot of a workshop offered for 0.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs), charging $30 for a 2-hour session.
notanangrydeafperson.medium.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:28 PM
About that workshop offering CEUs on interpreting about celebrities... I wrote a critique here.
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I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
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I’ve created this Starter Pack for deaf scholars new on this platform and looking for other deaf scholars to follow and interact with. Join us! go.bsky.app/6USEvp8
November 14, 2024 at 11:22 AM
I’ve created this Starter Pack for deaf scholars new on this platform and looking for other deaf scholars to follow and interact with. Join us! go.bsky.app/6USEvp8
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Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken:
Vaccines are a miracle and amazing
Vaccines are a miracle and amazing
November 15, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Let me say something that is controversial because our brains are broken:
Vaccines are a miracle and amazing
Vaccines are a miracle and amazing
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ICYMI--The nonviolent resistance movement against a 21st-century, democratically-elected genocidal Christian nationalist authoritarian that actually worked (featuring actionable things to do right now, too):
open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
Lessons from the Serbian Resistance
The beginner's guide to 21st-century revolution
open.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:35 PM
ICYMI--The nonviolent resistance movement against a 21st-century, democratically-elected genocidal Christian nationalist authoritarian that actually worked (featuring actionable things to do right now, too):
open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
Wondering.
Is there a history text or some type of documentation of how deaf people lived during the 50’s and the 70’s before the advent of deaf friendly technology, the rehabilitation act of 1973, PL 94 -142?
#deafacademia
Is there a history text or some type of documentation of how deaf people lived during the 50’s and the 70’s before the advent of deaf friendly technology, the rehabilitation act of 1973, PL 94 -142?
#deafacademia
November 15, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Wondering.
Is there a history text or some type of documentation of how deaf people lived during the 50’s and the 70’s before the advent of deaf friendly technology, the rehabilitation act of 1973, PL 94 -142?
#deafacademia
Is there a history text or some type of documentation of how deaf people lived during the 50’s and the 70’s before the advent of deaf friendly technology, the rehabilitation act of 1973, PL 94 -142?
#deafacademia
Yes!
New blog post hot off the presses: commentary on how hearing people respond to seeing sign language interpreters on television.
Sign Language Interpreter Spotted!
So you saw a sign language interpreter on the television news (or maybe at a music concert). Congratulations on stumbling upon this…
notanangrydeafperson.medium.com
November 15, 2024 at 11:11 PM
Yes!