Deaf Killjoy🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@deafkilljoy.bsky.social
deafdisabled queer nerd. Stuff I do: history crip linguistics disability studies sign language deaf studies
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It was an absolute privilege having Dr. Octavian Robinson @deafkilljoy.bsky.social come to our department to give a presentation on Crip Linguistics. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Looking forward to reading many more of his works soon to come 🔥
October 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It was an absolute privilege having Dr. Octavian Robinson @deafkilljoy.bsky.social come to our department to give a presentation on Crip Linguistics. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Looking forward to reading many more of his works soon to come 🔥
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New publication out with the late great @jmhenner.bsky.social and @anthrodad.bsky.social
The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations.
academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl... 1/6
The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations.
academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl... 1/6
Preliminary development of the deaf childhood experiences scale
Abstract. We describe here the initial creation and validation of a tool designed to quantify certain unique life experiences of deaf individuals. The Deaf
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June 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New publication out with the late great @jmhenner.bsky.social and @anthrodad.bsky.social
The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations.
academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl... 1/6
The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations.
academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl... 1/6
Wonderful to connect with old friends and make new ones at Trinity College Dublin’s seminar on deaf resilience. Thanks for such amazing hospitality!
Feels like conference season has started with @trinitycds.bsky.social seminar on Community Resilience. Dr Octavian Robinson
@deafkilljoy.bsky.social discusses how deaf community and resilience can be tended rooted in gratitude for the past, informing present and future.
@deafkilljoy.bsky.social discusses how deaf community and resilience can be tended rooted in gratitude for the past, informing present and future.
May 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wonderful to connect with old friends and make new ones at Trinity College Dublin’s seminar on deaf resilience. Thanks for such amazing hospitality!
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CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Tomorrow is the cloture vote.
KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️
Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.
Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
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This website makes it very easy to make comments on all 3 current anti-trans passport policy proposals. It literally will take you no more than 10 minutes and can at least let this administration know many of us stand with the trans community against their hate
When I moved to Canada from the U.S., I took it for granted that I could get back relatively easily. Because I'm trans, Trump is making it more difficult to see my friends and family. Please take 10 minutes to speak out against his anti-trans passport policy here: transequality.org/news/freedom...
FREEDOM TO FLY: Take Action to Protect Trans Passport Access | A4TE
The U.S. Department of State has opened public comment periods on three important passport applications, and we must flood all three with our opposition to anti-trans changes before it's too late.
transequality.org
March 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
This website makes it very easy to make comments on all 3 current anti-trans passport policy proposals. It literally will take you no more than 10 minutes and can at least let this administration know many of us stand with the trans community against their hate
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FYI any and all discussions about or assertions of "waste, fraud and abuse" in Medicaid and other social safety net funding is racist-ableist.
February 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
FYI any and all discussions about or assertions of "waste, fraud and abuse" in Medicaid and other social safety net funding is racist-ableist.
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Trans liberation and disability justice are one fight. No body or mind left behind.
Trans liberation and disability justice are one fight.
February 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Trans liberation and disability justice are one fight. No body or mind left behind.
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So I guess what I'm saying is, even if you don't care about disabled people, if you *do* like the Civil Rights Act, you also have to care about this. 🦗🤷🏻🫠
Something else I think people fail to realize is that Texas v. Beccera seeks to declare Section 504 unconstitutional due to spending clause regulations. Spending clause is also the mechanism behind the Civil Rights Act. This would set precedent. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/02/12/w...
What’s the Deal with the Section 504 Lawsuit? - Disability Rights Watch
Section 504 is a civil rights statute that says any entity that gets money from the federal government (funding, grants, etc.) cannot discriminate on the basis of disability. It is part of the Rehabil...
www.disability-rights-watch.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So I guess what I'm saying is, even if you don't care about disabled people, if you *do* like the Civil Rights Act, you also have to care about this. 🦗🤷🏻🫠
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This week’s #funfactfriday, I’m breaking down SB 1/HB 6. This bill would destroy higher education in Ohio.
February 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This week’s #funfactfriday, I’m breaking down SB 1/HB 6. This bill would destroy higher education in Ohio.
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Gonna read more on this, but calling all #deafsky. This bill definitely needs to be defeated. Anyone know if folks at ISD are aware?
Part 1: Indiana Republicans want to take back in time when our language and culture were suppressed.
Summary of Indiana Senate Bill 0473’s Impact on DHH Education (can be found in sections 26-28, pages 19-21):
Summary of Indiana Senate Bill 0473’s Impact on DHH Education (can be found in sections 26-28, pages 19-21):
February 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Gonna read more on this, but calling all #deafsky. This bill definitely needs to be defeated. Anyone know if folks at ISD are aware?
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Save the date 21-22 August 2025: 'Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change' workshop at
@unibirmingham.bsky.social!
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social!
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
SLCVC Workshop
sites.google.com
December 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Save the date 21-22 August 2025: 'Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change' workshop at
@unibirmingham.bsky.social!
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
@unibirmingham.bsky.social!
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...
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If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦
December 15, 2024 at 8:13 PM
If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦
Kudos to @benbraithwaite.bsky.social and team for organizing an incredible conference. I love when I leave a conference with new ideas and directions for my work. Great feedback from the audience on papers with @linasigns.bsky.social and @erinmoriarty.bsky.social going home energized. #SIGN10
December 13, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Kudos to @benbraithwaite.bsky.social and team for organizing an incredible conference. I love when I leave a conference with new ideas and directions for my work. Great feedback from the audience on papers with @linasigns.bsky.social and @erinmoriarty.bsky.social going home energized. #SIGN10
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Octavian Robinson and Erin Moriarty’s presentation highlights the importance of queering ASL - embracing multiple expressions of gender and sexuality
#Sign10
@deafkilljoy.bsky.social
@emoriartyh.bsky.social
#Sign10
@deafkilljoy.bsky.social
@emoriartyh.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Octavian Robinson and Erin Moriarty’s presentation highlights the importance of queering ASL - embracing multiple expressions of gender and sexuality
#Sign10
@deafkilljoy.bsky.social
@emoriartyh.bsky.social
#Sign10
@deafkilljoy.bsky.social
@emoriartyh.bsky.social
Any disability studies conferences coming up?
December 8, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Any disability studies conferences coming up?
Disability rights has broad relevance- & deaf folks need to work on our solidarity with other disabled people.
December 5, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Disability rights has broad relevance- & deaf folks need to work on our solidarity with other disabled people.
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🦋 Trans Rights are
🌸 Gender Liberation
🌟 Bodily Autonomy
🌈 Women's Rights
🪽 Self Determination
This is my growing thread on trans topics ✨ ֹ ִ 🪷 ֹ ִ
🌸 Gender Liberation
🌟 Bodily Autonomy
🌈 Women's Rights
🪽 Self Determination
This is my growing thread on trans topics ✨ ֹ ִ 🪷 ֹ ִ
November 11, 2024 at 10:14 PM
🦋 Trans Rights are
🌸 Gender Liberation
🌟 Bodily Autonomy
🌈 Women's Rights
🪽 Self Determination
This is my growing thread on trans topics ✨ ֹ ִ 🪷 ֹ ִ
🌸 Gender Liberation
🌟 Bodily Autonomy
🌈 Women's Rights
🪽 Self Determination
This is my growing thread on trans topics ✨ ֹ ִ 🪷 ֹ ִ
Deaf people don't have broken English. @linasigns.bsky.social and I will present this next week at SIGN10. A little sneak preview here:
Deaf people’s English isn’t “broken”
A sneak peek at the upcoming poster presentation with Dr. Lina Hou of University of California Santa Barbara. We present this work at…
notanangrydeafperson.medium.com
December 4, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Deaf people don't have broken English. @linasigns.bsky.social and I will present this next week at SIGN10. A little sneak preview here:
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Gaza is a disability justice issue. If you believe in and purport to practice disability justice, you must speak up. There is no excuse.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Gaza now has the highest per capita rate of child amputees, with 'many losing limbs and undergoing surgeries without anaesthesia.'
🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/zsq70j
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December 4, 2024 at 2:03 PM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Gaza is a disability justice issue. If you believe in and purport to practice disability justice, you must speak up. There is no excuse.
“Avatars should ideally not be intended to replace sign language interpreters but to complement them. “Automated translation may help alleviate some of the current limitations with human sign language interpreting services, but this will require significant technological advancements,”- De Meulder.
I talked to reporters from Deaf Journalism Europe about the economic and societal costs and benefits of sign language avatars vs. human sign language interpreters, and the slippery slope of access rights. www.deafjournalism.eu/sign-languag...
Sign Language Avatars: The German Gold Rush to Undercut Flesh And Blood Interpreters – Deaf Journalism Europe
www.deafjournalism.eu
December 4, 2024 at 1:25 PM
“Avatars should ideally not be intended to replace sign language interpreters but to complement them. “Automated translation may help alleviate some of the current limitations with human sign language interpreting services, but this will require significant technological advancements,”- De Meulder.
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What to listen for in today’s Supreme Court argument: gender-sexuality.law.columbia.edu/sites/defaul...
gender-sexuality.law.columbia.edu
December 4, 2024 at 12:45 PM
What to listen for in today’s Supreme Court argument: gender-sexuality.law.columbia.edu/sites/defaul...
Just finished my first semester as a tenured prof at a R1. My students were an absolute joy. Intellectually curious and willing to embrace challenge & rigor. My scholarship has blossomed; it’s unbelievable how much more time I have for intellectual & creative pursuits. Service was meaningful.
December 3, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Just finished my first semester as a tenured prof at a R1. My students were an absolute joy. Intellectually curious and willing to embrace challenge & rigor. My scholarship has blossomed; it’s unbelievable how much more time I have for intellectual & creative pursuits. Service was meaningful.
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responding to julia's call for a mass action today, i wrote about the intersections of queer justice & disability justice, and why we have to call on our leaders to fight for collective liberation in order to protect our communities
deepercuts.substack.com/p/lgbtqia2s-...
deepercuts.substack.com/p/lgbtqia2s-...
December 3, 2024 at 10:52 PM
responding to julia's call for a mass action today, i wrote about the intersections of queer justice & disability justice, and why we have to call on our leaders to fight for collective liberation in order to protect our communities
deepercuts.substack.com/p/lgbtqia2s-...
deepercuts.substack.com/p/lgbtqia2s-...
Blog post following up on critiques of our ASL Roundtable talk about "Teacher Must Sign Good?"
Teacher Must Sign Good?
This is a follow up on a presentation Jon Henner and I gave at the ASL Roundtable a couple of years ago. Immediately after that roundtable…
notanangrydeafperson.medium.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Blog post following up on critiques of our ASL Roundtable talk about "Teacher Must Sign Good?"