Deaf activist Yumjirdulam presents on a project in progress to submit new legislation for Deaf rights in Mongolia.

Deaf linguist Byambasuren presents on the structure of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf and ideas that the Mongolian Association can take away.

Baasanjav, director of the Deaf Education NGO, presents on what sign language rights mean for deaf people. She is pointing at her hand as she sign RIGHTS.

Mongolian Deaf linguist M. Ganbaatar demonstrates the sign for International Week of the Deaf to attendees.

I also remember how queer-friendly it was in the family vocab unit. Spoken language courses I had taken were always strictly cishetero-normative in that unit, so I was surprised and relieved.

I took an ASL class in college. Now ~9 years later, I mostly remember the professor's humor. All the bilingual puns like CAT UP for ketchup, upside-down STAND for understand, etc. And Deaf jokes: Timber ofc, but also the candy bar story and the man trying to find his wife's hotel room.