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 [...]

Reflections on “Nearly 50 Years Later: The Chicago Fire that Killed Two Deaf Students”

By |2018-01-26T00:11:34-05:00January 26, 2018|Categories: Blog, Childhood, Culture, Deaf Community, History, Humanity, Language, Notable People|

Video description: Trudy Suggs, a white woman with brown shoulder-length hair, is wearing a black cardigan over a black shirt with green and white dots. [...]

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 [...]

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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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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