Giving Credit Where It Wasn’t Due
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 [...]
Deaf Women Supporting Deaf Women
This article originally appeared in Get a Z Life Magazine. When you put a group of women together to work, what do you get? [...]
Full, unfiltered access to ASL and the world
(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 [...]
sComm: An Update
Read my original article and open letter (available in ASL and English) before reading the below. Warning: This article includes graphic language. In March, I wrote [...]
Speech given at a high school in 2015
The following is a speech I gave at a public high school's world languages ceremony in 2015. Read the article I wrote about this [...]
Open letter to Jason Curry, sComm CEO
(To learn more about this open letter, go here.) March 30, 2015 Mr. Curry: Thank you for the video you released on Friday, March [...]
To Lead or Not to Lead? Sharing Power in the Field of Interpreting
This article originally appeared in the spring/summer 2014 issue of the RID VIEWS (Volume 31, Issue 2). View it as a PDF file: Suggs-Bowen_Article.pdf By Doug [...]
Beyond Face Value
I was a latecomer to Facebook. I created an account in 2007, but didn’t really use it until 2009. I had just given birth [...]
Giving and Receiving Gratitude
My older two kids tried soccer for the first time this year. Coach Bob was an extremely patient guy who worked the large group [...]
The fight of her life: Ronda Kopatich-Johnson
Ronda Kopatich-Johnson was my children's teacher aide last year in preschool, and my children went ga-ga over her. My children came home with new words [...]