WEEK 9 hearing/deafness 🙊

WEEK 9 hearing/deafness 🙊

This week, we caught up with Tim Loh, a PhD candidate at MIT’s History, Anthropology, and STS program. Tim is a linguistic anthropologist and studies deaf communities in Jordan, among other issues in the deaf community. We read his article, “‘Maybe Jesus Knows Sign’: Resistance Through Identity Formation” in addition to watching other videos, including artist Christine Sun Kim’s TED talk, as well as reading Latif Nasser’s short article on Helen Keller and failed hearing glove. Other videos that Tim recommended included “Signs of solidarity for deaf black people” and “How deaf researchers are reinventing science communication.”

Here is a recording of our conversation and notes from our chat:

9:25 Lan Li pro-tactile signing

Hi everyone!!!

please feel free to take notes here

09:30 Andrew and Alicia hiya

09:30 Hope Zhou

09:30 Lily Weeks testing

09:30 Lan Li Hi Lily!!

09:35 Lan Li https://www.gallaudet.edu/

09:39 Tim Loh

Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure – Eli Clare

09:39 Lan Li

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo48885494.html

Hearing Happiness

University of Chicago Press

09:41 Lan Li

medical-industrial complex of medicalizing deafness

https://www.amazon.com/Brilliant-Imperfection-Grappling-Eli-Clare/dp/0822362872

09:42 Lan Li

https://www.rchsd.org/documents/2014/04/what-is-auditory-verbal-therapy-cochlear-implant.pdf/

“Auditory-Verbal Therapy” – a packet for parents as an example of medicalizing deafness

09:44 Lan Li

https://www.nad.org/

National Association of the Deaf – NAD

NAD

https://wfdeaf.org/

WFD | World Federation of the Deaf

World Federation of the Deaf

09:46 Lan Li

https://www.signingexactenglish.com/?pageid=2

About

Signing Exact English Logo

09:54 Tim Loh Lane 2005

09:55 Lan Li https://academic-oup-com.ezproxy.rice.edu/jdsde/article/10/3/291/413383

09:59 Tim Loh deaf vs Deaf

10:03 Tim Loh

” I thought of Ludwig van Beethoven and how he continued to compose music when he became deaf later in his life. But within the deaf community are those who were born deaf compared to those who became deaf later in life looked at different and do they hold different social status within the deaf community? Would someone like Beethoven who was able to hear and then became deaf be considered differently within the deaf community because he once could hear?”

“While framing Deafness as an ethnic identity may push back against the assumptions and attitudes of an ableist society, would such categorization simultaneously exclude individuals who became Deaf/embraced ASL later in life?”

10:06 Lan Li https://www.instagram.com/nyledimarco/?hl=en

10:08 Lan Li https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTkIsqdBCtk

Ariana Grande “7 rings” | ASL VERSION with Nyle DiMarco

10:10 Tim Loh https://academic.oup.com/jdsde/article/10/4/442/363409

Understanding Harry Potter: Parallels to the Deaf World

OUP Academic

http://deaf-world-travel.info/2015/04/29/deaf-world-is-hogwarts/

19 Ways the Deaf World is Hogwarts

Bring Me That Horizon

10:13 Lan Li iconic v arbitrary

10:16 Tim Loh mouth morphemes

10:21 Lan Li diglossia