The Importance of Storytelling to Address Deaf Disempowerment

By |2024-12-04T21:36:26-05:00June 1, 2018|Categories: Blog, Community resources, Culture, Deaf Community, Disempowerment, Humanity, Language, Media, Politics, RID, Stereotypes|

Chapter One in Deaf Eyes on Interpreting (2018) edited by Thomas K. Holcomb and David H. Smith. View the ASL summary of this [...]

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Deaf Schools: TRUE-BUSINESS Deaf?—20 Years Later

By |2024-12-07T19:41:05-05:00April 26, 2018|Categories: Blog, Community resources, Deaf Community, Deaf Education, DeafNation Newspaper, Humanity, Language, Parenting|

By Trudy Suggs Read the 1997 article or the 2007 article. Scroll down to see my thoughts about this year's results. (For a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

#iamdeaf

By |2016-04-04T11:22:38-05:00April 4, 2016|Categories: Business, Community resources, Culture, Deaf Community, Deaf-Owned Businesses, Humanity, Language, Politics, Stereotypes|

In response to the recent AGB letter controversy, Robin Horwitz has created an #iamdeaf page on Facebook, and I was among the people he [...]

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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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Open letter to Jason Curry, sComm CEO

By |2015-03-30T11:27:33-05:00March 30, 2015|Categories: Business, Community resources, Culture, Deaf Community, Deaf-Owned Businesses, Humanity, Stereotypes|

(To learn more about this open letter, go here.) March 30, 2015 Mr. Curry: Thank you for the video you released on Friday, March [...]

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