Watch the debate live tonight in ASL http://eepurl.com/cjfhRf

When HR spends half of the job interview questioning you about the “expense of interpreters”

Huge thanks to DPAN for providing live streamed presidential debates with ASL interpreters!! 

You can watch the second presidential debate on October 9th on their website or Facebook. (Personal note: I found the Facebook stream to be entirely too distracting with all the reactions and “so and so is watching with you”.  I found out after the fact that you can swipe to mute the reactions, but I will be watching on the web for sure this time around!)

If you haven't checked out the #HearingPrivilege stream on Twitter, you should do it now. Share your stories. And for those who carry the hearing privilege - open your mind, and learn. We can all make the world a kinder place by being aware of others' stories, and learning from them.

This is awesome! I so want to go to one of these concerts.  I love feeling the music vibrate my bones. 

I agree, there needs to be more support across the board for parents.  Really, across the board, the Deaf community could do with a lot less infighting and arguing as if there’s only one right answer.  

My sweetie made a vlog in response to Nyle Dimarco winning DWTS (yay, Nyle!!), and I wanted to share it with you.  You can see the original post here.

I am so happy for Nyle - in my humble opinion, he absolutely deserved the win, and it’s fantastic to see so many good things happening for him, and I love the way he uses the opportunity to spread awareness and positivity about Deaf culture.  So, question is, how do we, as the Deaf community, make the most of the attention and awareness of mainstream America? What are your thoughts? 

Transcript: Hello! this is my first vlog since... well EVER. first, my name is Maks. I live in Portland, Oregon. I'm deaf. I grew up with hearing family. I was born hearing and became deaf due to sickness. I learned sign language. I also learned speech. At home, I speak with little sign. At school. i sign and talk at the same time, Simultaneous-communication (SimCom).

This vlog is about Nyle!

I have not watched one show of DWTS but i do keep tabs on the newsfeed on Facebook, Twitter, etc about its competition. As the end result, it's pretty awesome that Nyle DiMarco won. In this sense, the Deaf Community won too.

my first thought: We're gonna be the national darlings in the view of the media and the people. Everyone will be jumping on the ASL train, learning the language and such.

However, I feel that with the national attention turned on to the Deaf Community, we need to reap the opportunity. We need to use this platform to achieve equal access: (ad libs) fire alarms, closed captioning on all TVs, Deaf services in all cities, interpreter access in hospitals and schools, etc. We need to make waves the RIGHT way, not coercing or taking advantage of the attention.

So let all of us stand together and get the access we all deserve.

Well said!