I attended Lollapalooza Festival 2021 at Grant Park in Chicago, IL from July 29 — Aug 1, 2021. I took advantage of a rare opportunity to travel to Chicago to see what the experience is like for concertgoers, especially Deaf concertgoers. Enjoying music is often assumed to be only accessible…

The unconscious bias within local reporting of a Deaf person’s police encounters constantly ignores the historical focus of Black bodies on the ground of the civil right violations. Encyclopedia Britannica stated the definition of civil rights, “guarantees of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law, regardless of race…

Adeerya Johnson, a Black Ph.D. student who is also a Spelman College alumni. Johnson’s twitter handle is @nubianlocz and she proudly tweeted TMZ’s article of Billy Sanders. She corrected the role of Black Twitter’s coverage of Billy Sanders that played a pivotal role in launching Billy Sander’s ASL interpreting career…

Due to the popularity of my published article, The Power of the White Gaze: Erasure of Black Signers. So many Deaf people have making a request for my article to be translated into ASL for accessibility. I’ve asked three amazing Black signers to do their rendition for my lengthly article…

Introduction Many scholars outside of signed language linguistics, also recognized the importance of nonverbal communication through our interpersonal discourse. Understanding the importance of nonmanual markers in the use of American Sign Language hold the key to understanding the paralinguistic features of Black American Sign Language. Noticeably, the prosodic markers in…

I published my “Music Festival Interpreters On The Road: Where are the Black Interpreters?” article on August 6, 2021. In the article, I referred to Amber Galloway’s Amber G Productions company, which employed two Black ASL hearing interpreters, Jahmeca and Kiarah, for Lollapalooza Festival 2021. …

Today is a year after the murder of George Floyd. I published my first article, “Dear White Deaf People”and White Deaf Privilege List on my WordPress blog. I republished it as a precursor article to my “The Power of White Gaze” article on medium. …

Here’s my question for white Deaf people, Is white Deaf privilege Real? “White Deaf privilege is a cousin of white privilege.” Kyle Morris volunteered to translate for my Dear White Deaf People article into an ASL. Allison Friedman volunteered to do an ASL translation for my White Deaf Privilege List. On June 2, 2020, I had an interview with…

The term audism was first coined by Tom Humphries in his 1977 doctoral dissertation titled “Communicating Across Cultures (Deaf-Hearing) and Language Learning.” In it, Humphries defines it as, “The notion that one is superior based on one’s ability to hear or to behave in the manner of one who hears.” …