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Julie A. Hochgesang
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I like clouds, Lego, bridges, walks, cicadas, origami cranes and stuff like that. I also do linguistics #DeafLinguist #Glossgesang #ASLSignbank Digital organization and photography = my happy places

www.juliehochgesang.com
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DC sky be pretty 😍

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View of sunset cloudscape with orange and gray hues among D.C. cityscape - tracks, buildings, phone lines. Water tower in middle
October 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛

#NoKings

Can join virtually here. AND captions available. Even ASL interpreters for some 🙌 hopefully camera remembers to keep them in frame

www.youtube.com/live/raD5GuV...
Screenshot from Livestream of No Kings in DC with shot of protest signs from the crowd. My favorite "May the frog be with you"
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Erin was kind enough to acknowledge how today's dept looks quite different but still does good work (aw shucks!). She closed with a reminder to "not just look at language but also at people, what they're doing and their lives to get the whole picture in order to understand language use" 🙌#LingBing
October 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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During her description of the LIS example, Erin referred to the trees in the photo in her slides. She didn't know I had detached her slides and positioned them next to her head. Her signed production of "tree" lined up perfectly with the trees in the slides. Accidental #EmboxedDiscourse amazingness!
Screenshot of Zoom window with Erin signing in ASL. Slides are shown in top right. Erin's right hand is producing "where" while the left hand is maintaining the depiction of a "tree" and it's right in line with the trees in the photo on the slide that just happened to be in the same place as her left hand.
October 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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And #LingBing continues w Erin Wilkinson whose work I've admired for years. Erin graduated from Gallaudet Linguistics with a MA then went on to get her PhD from U of New Mexico where she is currently a professor. She joined our class to present her #HDLS16 keynote peppered with #LingBing memories
Screenshot of Zoom window with Erin looking at the camera and smiling. Her slides are in a window in the top right with title of her presentation "Language ecology: A missing piece of the "SL grammar" puzzle Erin Wilkinson October 15, 2025". Erin is a white woman with blue glasses, brown hair going to her chin, green sweater with a scoop. She's seated in her office with art in frames behind her. On the top in the center is a very small image of Julie sitting in her office. Screenshot of Zoom windows - Erin on top and Julie on bottom. Erin is signing "intersubjectivity". Julie is a white woman with long brown hair with a brown keffiyeh scarf and light tan sweater. She's seated in front of a lot of art behind her in her office. Screenshot of several zoom windows with different people smiling at the camera. Erin and Julie are in the top windows. Krystin and Sasho then Grace and Kolby in the center windows. Masashi in the bottom window. Screenshot of Zoom windows with Erin signing "that' while pointing at the slides (although she doesn't know it!). Her slides are in a window in the top right with title of her presentation "Language ecology: A missing piece of the "SL grammar" puzzle Erin Wilkinson October 15, 2025".
October 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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And I got to say "LING BING zoom room" today ahhh haha
Blue background - yellow text for project name on top “LING BING” otherwise white text throughout the flyer with varying sizes and locations. In center, three big circles with text inside. Bottom one rounded rectangle with text inside and a QR code on right in front of yellow circle (for flyer). Images throughout the flyer include line art for “BING” (side of face with hand moving away from chest) by project name on top; “WHAT-DO” as two grayscale hands (one dark gray and other light gray) showing the sign; MEMORY CHERISH as two sets of line art with a line showing the profile of a face and hands showing handshape and direction of movement Text: LING BING: Documenting experiences in the Gallaudet Linguistics Department Please come meet with us for filmed sessions or participate online in different ways (Inside first circle on left) Do you have stories to share about your time with the linguistics department at Gallaudet? (Center circle) 258, WHAT-DO, MEMORY CHERISH (with line art showing signs for the last three glosses, none for 258) (Inside third circle on right) Help the LIN graduate Field Methods class create a historical record of our department (all of this is white except for “create a historical record” which is in yellow) Participate in short interviews, submit a narrative or more for $10 per half hour of participation Bulleted list: 18 and over, comfortable with ASL or IS, familiar with GU LIN dept Images adapted from 58 Creativity This has been reviewed by Gallaudet IRB FieldMethodsGU@gallaudet.edu
October 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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My Field Methods class this year is documenting the experiences of the Gallaudet Linguistics department. Got to talk with Bob Johnson today - 1st professor & chair of the department. He was also my dissertation advisor. He started in '81 and retired in '12. So many good stories #LingBing
Sunlight hitting Bob as he looks at the camera, fist on chin Julie on left with hand over heart. Bob on right smiling. Screenshot of them in their zoom rooms
October 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Now on my daily commute 😣

Tell me when I’m supposed to start feeling safe

#FreeDC
Backlit image of National Guard soldiers on NOMA-Gallaudet U metro platform. Another train passing in the distance with sunlight bouncing off the back car. Brick and brown buildings in the background National guard soldiers sitting on concrete barriers outside of tall glass doors of NOMA-Gallaudet metro station Taken through window - Side profile of National guard soldier walking on platform as train passes by
August 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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So glad this is out! Still wish we had the data processed in time for @jmhenner.bsky.social to use but pleased to have his contribution in more ways than 1. See below for a brief commentary re Jon, deaf linguists & participating in SiL research and doing it in a way that disrupts or crips it all
Series of 3 images of Jon during Zoom session expressing full support for open access in ASL Zoom window of 4 participants - top left to bottom right - Frank smiling, Jon with two-handed heart gesture, Leeann smiling and Julie holding heart over heart with 🥹 face Twitter thread showing Jon’s belief in open access work and recognition of the work it takes. Text: Jon Henner @jmhenner - Paying participants. Assistants. Language Coders. Web coders. Web maintenance. Web systems. Technology. This scales. If I want a project with 10 people I need to seed it thinking ahead. 5:15 PM - Dec 15, 2021 Julie A. Hochgesang, PhD @jahochcam Dec 15, 2021 Exactly Hoping that #MoloASL will be released this upcoming summer and part of #05S5ASL in the spring with more as the year progresses Jon Henner @jmhenner • Dec 15, 2021 *** I don't want to collect good data and let it die on a VHS tape on my shelf like two generations ago. It needs to be available and accessible.
July 31, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A few more! I couldn’t stop taking photos
Close up of flower with thin purple petals and sassy yellow center Close up of daisy Close up of green stalk with many small white flowers Close up but not super macro shot of daisy amid grass
July 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Some of my favorite macro shots from my recent visit to Eugene, OR. It was hotter than I would have liked during the long days but the morning walks were perfect #vsco #momentmacro
Close up of flower mostly orange-yellow with purple hues Close up of sweet pea - light pink with yellow center Close up of small yellow flowers with prickly maroon center Close up of prickly pink leaves
July 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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I love these!!! Here’s a few of my favorites from the 2021 DC brood
Close up of cicada with red eyes looking at camera Close of up cicada with rain drop on one eye Close up of back of wings covered with raindrops amid leaves
July 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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These are the birds I mentioned in the last post. I took this in May of 2021 #OBX
Sunrise photo with lots of thin long clouds in background lit by sunrise - orange, pink and light blue. In foreground is the beach with a line of small birds by the waves
June 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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This one of the sun pillar accompanied by some birds 😍

Was surprised to not see those small birds by the waves. What are they called again? Didn’t see a single one this year 😢

#vsco #OBX
Several birds flying close to the water in the distance. Slight sun pillar in background. Wave splashes in foreground
June 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Sun pillar clearer here

#OBX #vsco
Clouds, sun pillar, sunrise, crashing waves
June 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Slowly editing the many sunrise photos I’ve taken. In love with this one with its slight sun pillar, the crescent moon and the soft colors

So crazy how many different colors the sunrise can be #OBX #vsco
Wide shot of sunrise with slight sun pillar and crescent moon over the ocean with small crashing wave
June 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Last #OBX sunrise for a while

Been ignoring the news and I see it's just awful as usual so if you need a bit of sunrise joy, here you are
Just before the sunrise. A vertical shot of the beach with the wave coming in. Just above the horizon is a thin red-orange line and soft yellows above with some pinks. Then blue all the way up to a thin sliver moon top right Crashing wave just before the sunrise. A shot of the beach with the wave coming in. Just above the horizon is a thin red-orange line and soft yellows above with some pinks. Then blue all the way. There seems to be a bit of a pillar where the sun will rise Close up of rising sun, peeking halfway over the ocean. Sky is bright orange red Line of birds flying over the water in front of the barely risen sun. Sky is a muted orange
June 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Another sunrise, another day

OBX, North Carolina
Wide shot of ocean just before sunrise. Gentle waves. Sky has thin long feathery clouds with different shades of orange and yellow close to the horizon and blues above. Moon in upper right Shot of ocean with quite a bit of sandy shore shown on the left. Pink hues to the sky and a long thin cloud stretching across the shot A shot of ocean just before sunrise. Waves crashing. Sky has thin long feathery clouds with different shades of orange and yellow close to the horizon and blues above Foreground shot of sand castle with sun peeking through top. Sky has thin long feathery clouds with different shades of orange and yellow close to the horizon and blues above
June 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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really needed this 😍

OBX, North Carolina
Sunrise photo of ocean. Fiery red center of horizon. Yellows top left. Purple and blue top right. Ocean reflects those hues. Crashing wave against sand in foreground Photo of ocean wave coming in with stunning clouds above in blues higher above and yellows near the horizon Photo of horizon of ocean with lots of thick clouds above with yellow on horizon. In foreground is a line of rectangular rocks on the shore leading into the water ending at a pole Glass ball showing the sunrise starting amid waves crashing against the sandy shore
June 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Decent turnout at the #NoKings demonstration at Gaithersburg, MD

Chill and happy vibes 🥰
Small black dog in front of a poster on the ground “this is what democracy looks like” “The emperor has no clothes” under a red circle striking out a crown - poster held by person not included “No kings, no hurlers, no cult leaders taking over America” poster held by person not included in photo standing by side of road Pink-purple flowers among grass
June 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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#NoKings demonstration Rockville, MD
Masked Julie with hat “you are on native land” holding a poster with fist inside heart standing in front of others holding signs “No kings, yas queens” on poster held by protester by side of road. Yas queens in rainbow colors Panoramic shot of protestors lining the opposite side of road with posters and American flags Closer view of protesters on other side of road with posters and American flags
June 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Abolish ICE

Art by Jess x Snow
Art by jessxsnow - gorgeous line work with large bird leading the way and the rest of it becoming tree branches with other birds, waves under a red sun and turtles with people on the run
June 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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SIGNBANK FOR-FOR DOCUMENTATION

The ASL Signbank is a documentation tool for annotating ASL videos

aslsignbank.com

#TheASLSignbank
One-pager describing the ASL Signbank. Top teal banner with 3 people signing "ASL-SIGNBANK FOR-FOR DOCUMENTATION" with text below (same as text in skeet). Below background image of lots of signers for the ASL Signbank dimmed. Foregrounded are different boxes - author information (Julie A. Hochgesang, Onno Crasborn and Diane Lillo-Martin, 2017-2025), The ASL Signbank logo with name sign in outlined hands, teal box with white text "The ASL Signbank is a cloud-based lexical database, which has been designed/organized using the Global signbank infrastructure", screenshot of home page of website for ASL Signbank, Screenshot of "all signs" view with "related signs" circled - text overlaid "There are currently 4400+ entries in ASl Signbank and growing. Categories of entry information follow prior signbanks and our proejct annotation conventions." Screenshot of ELAN showing a Black woman signing in ASL and text below with a smaller video linked - next to this is a teal box with white text "Although it can be used for reference and analysis of ASL signs, the primary purpose of the ASL Signbank is to serve as an annotation tool for ASL videos using ELAN, an annotation software (see left). Annotation makes videos machine-readable (searchable, countable, etc). The bottom of the screen has logo for project "SLAASh" along with the hand showing a slash mark. There's acknowledgments for participants and families as well as research assistants and grant information. It also links to the website via text and QR code. It also shows an Instagram logo and @ASLSignbank
June 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Oof what a red sun this morning. Hard capturing it with the phone camera so did a shadow shot as well. How can AQI be 15??

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Red sun peeking through green trees. Camera doesn’t make it seem as red as it really is Shadows on wall with red light - you can see me in the shadow taking the photo in front of a desk and cat food bowls
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Tiny wonders on my walk
Macro shot of puffy dandelion seeds Macro shot of yellow dandelion Macro shot of tiny pine cones among some needles Macro shot of center of pink flower with lots of tiny pointy bits
June 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM