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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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 [...]

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 [...]

Questions emerge about Deaf News Today and its owner

By |2023-05-03T14:05:34-05:00November 14, 2013|Categories: Business, Community resources, Culture, Language, Media, Silent News|

During the 2013 Deaflympics held in Sofia, Bulgaria, last July, the USA Deaf Sports Federation (USADSF) began receiving reports alleging Deaf News Today (DNT) [...]

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