Octavian, a man in a blue patterned shirt sitting on a stool signing. Behind him is a large TV screen showing a PowerPoint slide with text explaining the difference between disability and debility. Beside the screen on the left is a sign language interpreter.

It was an absolute privilege having Dr. Octavian Robinson @deafkilljoy.bsky.social come to our department to give a presentation on Crip Linguistics. Thoroughly enjoyed it! Looking forward to reading many more of his works soon to come 🔥

Preliminary development of the deaf childhood experiences scale Abstract. We describe here the initial creation and validation of a tool designed to quantify certain unique life experiences of deaf individuals. The Deaf

New publication out with the late great @jmhenner.bsky.social and @anthrodad.bsky.social

The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations.

academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl... 1/6

Wonderful to connect with old friends and make new ones at Trinity College Dublin’s seminar on deaf resilience. Thanks for such amazing hospitality!

And yet your career, tenure, reputation, relationships with students and colleagues are all on the line. Interpreters who respect deaf people and the power relations involved should totally respect your position. NTA.

Thank you for coming! It was a pleasure meeting you in person.

Why can’t we do a virtual conference? We did so during the height of Covid. Many organizations continue to host hybrid or fully online conferences.

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up.

Tomorrow is the cloture vote.

KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️

Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill.

Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

This website makes it very easy to make comments on all 3 current anti-trans passport policy proposals. It literally will take you no more than 10 minutes and can at least let this administration know many of us stand with the trans community against their hate

FYI any and all discussions about or assertions of "waste, fraud and abuse" in Medicaid and other social safety net funding is racist-ableist.

I’d love to chat more with you about this. Will DM you

Trans liberation and disability justice are one fight. No body or mind left behind.

I found one post on Facebook. I see what you mean. What an utterly uninformed take.

Are they saying that? I’m not a DoE policy expert but state schools are subject to the jurisdiction of state depts of ed. DoE doesn’t oversee curriculums, for example.

So I guess what I'm saying is, even if you don't care about disabled people, if you *do* like the Civil Rights Act, you also have to care about this. 🦗🤷🏻🫠

I’m not quite following that logic. Might you explain what accountability they’re trying to elide?

I love the retreat to analog. Digital’s run its course. But where are all the mailboxes!?

And so our descent towards hell continues

This week’s #funfactfriday, I’m breaking down SB 1/HB 6. This bill would destroy higher education in Ohio.

Gonna read more on this, but calling all #deafsky. This bill definitely needs to be defeated. Anyone know if folks at ISD are aware?

The pentagon were not able to complete their last six audits and can’t account for 63% of its $4 trillion in assets. Congress keeps giving pentagon more money than they ask for. A lot of our social issues require just a fraction of this money.

As for spending- before we do anything to cut international aid, my vote is to tax billionaires, cut military and police funding, and demand the pentagon do a better job of accounting for every cent.

I’m really sorry to read this. I saw somewhere that this pause could be as short as 1 day- as long as agencies confirm they’re in compliance (with what precisely is unclear). I hope this is a very brief hiccup.

Thank you! Looks good!

SLCVC Workshop

Save the date 21-22 August 2025: 'Sign Language Contact, Variation, and Change' workshop at
@unibirmingham.bsky.social!
sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...

One of us will be in touch once our next IRB app is approved!

If you’re a nondeaf scholar who researches deaf people and signed languages, it’s important to be open about your positionality & to be open to critical feedback from deaf scholars and deaf community members. Think of feedback as care for more holistic & ethical research, not as gatekeeping 🐦 🐦

Yup- so happens Lina Hou, Erin Moriarty, and I are writing this now.

I hope you’ll preserve these earlier drafts! Lina Hou, linguist, is doing some work on this subject with me and Erin Moriarty— we are preparing an essay on this. We shared some preliminary thoughts in my most recent blog post.

Kudos to @benbraithwaite.bsky.social and team for organizing an incredible conference. I love when I leave a conference with new ideas and directions for my work. Great feedback from the audience on papers with @linasigns.bsky.social and @erinmoriarty.bsky.social going home energized. #SIGN10