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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 2)

By |2024-12-07T20:10:15-05:00January 26, 2018|Categories: Blog, Childhood, Community resources, Culture, Deaf Community, Deaf Education, Disempowerment, History, Humanity, Language, Media, Notable People|

By Trudy Suggs (Click here for my thoughts on this story in ASL and English). PART 2 (Read Part 1 here) Zeke [...]

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Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students (Part 1)

By |2018-01-26T00:04:13-05:00January 25, 2018|Categories: Blog, Childhood, Culture, History, Humanity, Language, Media, Notable People|

Illinois School for the Deaf Main Building (Courtesy of 1969 Illinois Advance) By Trudy Suggs PART 1 (Click here for Part 2) It [...]

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My letter, 26 years later

By |2018-01-26T00:11:57-05:00July 15, 2016|Categories: Childhood, Community resources, Culture, Deaf Community, Deaf Education, Disempowerment, Humanity, Interpreting, Language, Media, Parenting|

Video description: Trudy Suggs, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair, is wearing a purple v-necked sweater that ties at the neckline.  She is seated in [...]

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A Quick Look at Everyday Disempowerment of Deaf People

By |2016-05-12T11:42:53-05:00May 10, 2016|Categories: Business, Community resources, Culture, Deaf Community, Deaf Education, Deaf-Owned Businesses, Disempowerment, History, Humanity, Interpreting, Language, Media, Politics, RID, Stereotypes|

This article originally appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of NADmag; download a PDF version of the article. Video description:  Trudy, a white woman with shoulder-length [...]

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Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due

By |2016-03-25T13:06:14-05:00March 25, 2016|Categories: Blog, Culture, Deaf Community, Deaf Education, History, Humanity, Interpreting, Language, Stereotypes|

Video description: Trudy, a white woman with shoulder-length brown hair, is wearing a deep royal blue sweater. She is seated in the corner with [...]

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Deaf Women Supporting Deaf Women

By |2024-12-07T21:42:51-05:00March 1, 2016|Categories: Business, Community resources, Deaf Community, Deaf-Owned Businesses, Humanity, Notable People, Stereotypes|

This article originally appeared in Get a Z Life Magazine.  When you put a group of women together to work, what do you get? [...]

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Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world

By |2016-02-14T21:06:29-05:00February 14, 2016|Categories: Blog, Childhood, Culture, Deaf Community, Humanity, Language, Parenting|

(Reposted from my Facebook page, February 13, 2016) My (deaf) daughters and I went out for dinner, and my four-year-old asked me why it [...]

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