Lori Whynot, PhD

@TruthPoPo @elonmusk @stclairashley Or @truthpopo, do you mean to suggest that videos, movies etc should be designed only for those who can see and hear? That eliminates a large chunk of your potential consumers. And it ignores US accessibility laws. #multimodalityissexy

@TruthPoPo @elonmusk @stclairashley Or @truthpopo, do you mean to suggest that videos, movies etc should be designed only for those who can see and hear? That eliminates a large chunk of your potential consumers. And it ignores US accessibility laws. #multimodalityissexy

To virtue signal, SO MANY corporate companies do this for both their public AND private livestreams, all-hands meetings, and announcements. It’s literally just a few who started it... and the. all the other companies were concerned they’d look unwoke and compassionless by comparison. In the tv production world, it complicates all the graphics and camera shots dramatically. Hilariously, they also pay for live captioning on these videos - perplexing the producers.

@elonmusk Throwback to when Disney’s Karey Burke said, "as the mother of one transgender child and one pansexual child," she wants "many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories" and wants 50% of characters to be LGBTQIA and minorities

@TruthPoPo @elonmusk @stclairashley It’s not about woke, it’s about making sure your Deaf neighbour or your hard of hearing grampa can enjoy the video too. There’s lots of deaf neighbors and hard of hearing grampas out there!

@the_gryphon @elonmusk @stclairashley Also, second language learners of English benefit from seeing the English captions and hearing the spoken English together.

@elonmusk @stclairashley The video has 2 different languages: 1)ASL & 2)English & 3 different modalities: 1) visual (ASL), 2)spoken (English), 3)written (English). Not all deaf people access spoken or written English (use ASL), hard of hearing people don’t hear spoken English well (read English captions

@stclairashley What’s the point of sign language in a video if you have subtitles? Am I missing something?

@PatriotAegon @thesignlife @elonmusk @stclairashley 10 percent of the population is deaf or hard of hearing. Some use only American Sign Language and many are a little, somewhat, or very bilingual with English. English is not related to ASL: 2 different languages and modalities; ie., a show in Spanish & having English captions.

@thesignlife @elonmusk @stclairashley Nope, don’t know anyone in the deaf community. What percentage of the population is this? Other replies have been helpful in my understanding.

So sad to see the news of @jmhenner ‘s passing. I will miss his wit and intellect… a big loss indeed. Melanoma sucks. Cancer sucks.

@HeriotWattBSL @jmhenner @AnneliesKusters Congratulations @AnneliesKusters on this well deserved promotion!

So delighted for our wonderful colleague @AnneliesKusters who has been promoted to Professor. Well deserved recognition of her world leading research & innovation in deaf studies & applied linguistics. The first deaf professor in the UK. Let the celebrations begin! 🙌🏻 🍾🥂

@jmhenner Sending you strength, resilience, and hugs.

Receding from commitments like the tide going out. Need to figure out how to keep moving forward and working in a body that crumbles in different ways weekly.

@NUASLProgram @NUCSSH Northeastern graduate and current President of the World Federation of the Deaf receives the Liisa Kauppunin Human Rights Award. 🎉🎉🎉

Fantastic presentation by Maartje De Meulder- interpreting studies inquiry is in dire need of a more macro view to assess the interconnected institutions that impact the work.

@NUASLProgram @NUCSSH

Welcome to the last day (already? 😢) of the @WASLI2023 conference. Our Keynote today is about collaboration between the Deafblind and Sign Language Interpreters in South Korea presented by incoming WASLI VP (Lydia) Kounghee Koh & Se-woong Yoo #wasli2023

Great to have you with us!

A heartfelt thank you to all interpreters working the WASLI GA & conference, here at the venue and those online! We can imagine that a lot of interpreting was happening we did not plan or organise: so a massive ❤️ to all of you 🤟🏼

Now Lazarus shares her experience as a Black Deaf person doing a PhD in Germany; discusses the need for Black Deaf Studies in Germany and across the diaspora. Racism knows no borders @NUCSSH @NUASLProgram is @GallaudetU 1st Black Deaf Studies Symposium.

@NUCSSH @NUASLProgram is @GallaudetU 1st Black Deaf Studies Symposium. Dr Jenelle Rouse 1st Black Deaf person in Canada to earn a PhD. Black Deaf children experience lack of being seen in the curriculum and suffer a inappropriate education & huge lack of educational opportunities

Dr. Jenelle Rouse states the sad fact that Black Deaf children learn very little about themselves during their education. They often learn pejorative views of Black people. Being seen & seeing themselves must occur across the curriculum all year long, not just Black History month

Poignant moment: Dr. Carolyn McCaskill announces retirement, her black Deaf Studies Center legacy work honored in a room full of next generation Black Deaf scholars. Witnessing important history this week! @NUCSSH @NUASLProgram is @GallaudetU 1st Black Deaf Studies Symposium.

Rezenet Moges asks where the scholars are who are looking at the intersections of Black studies and critical race theory and Deaf studies. Deaf ontology, racial/ ethnic epistemology, intersectionality, dominant ideology &counter-narratives This is the space of Black Deaf Studies.

gallaudet.edu/center-black-d… Dr. Tom Humphries notes the problem of authenticity in the world of academy, studies by us, not about us & importance of being authentic despite resistance. “In emerging area of Black Deaf Studies…create, borrow, judge, retain, and revise new narratives.