Music

Vampire

Sources: SigningSavvy, ASLDeafined

[Image ID: vampire in American Sign Language. Hand in bent V handshape taps the side of the signers neck. Hand and mouth, which is depicted with fangs, are drawn in red. End ID]

The Knoxville Center of the Deaf is having a gala and I wanna go! Tickets are $90 so I'm doing commissions. The KCD offers great services and I'd love to support them. Here's a link for anyone that wants more information or to support them directly!

Request a commission through my ko-fi or message for details. My venmo is @Lloyd_E

[Image ID: a menu for commissions. Each category has examples.

15 dollars per sign. Examples shown are "Good" and "Behavior" for $15, "Good Night" for $30 and "Anthropology" or "the Study of Human Behavior" for $45.

25 dollars per stylized sign. Examples shown are "Bones" drawn with a skeletal design and "Frog" which has a frog face included in the design for $25. The signs "Lesbian" "Gay" "Bi" "Trans" colored in their respective pride flag colors together are $80.

5 dollars per fingerspelling. Examples shown are "Nonbinary" and "Name." End ID]

Star, Star, Star, Sock, Sock

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The sign for Star in American Sign Language repeated 5 times in a circle. Each sign resembles a point of a star.

Star: Both hands in 1 handshape with palms facing away from signer point up and rub sides of index fingers. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign.

Background is white.

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Rest

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

[Image ID:

The sign for Rest in American Sign Language. Both hands in open B handshape with palms facing signer are crossed over the signers chest. Hands rest on the chest below the opposite shoulder. Sign is illustrated by arms that are translucent purple and pink. Background is white.

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Remove

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Remove in American Sign Language. A handshape moves from base hand in open 5 handshape to the side and opens to a 5 handshape. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green, blue, and purple in different stages of the sign.

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Why’d you decide to be an interpreter?

(Also, hai! I saw you followed me :D)

Hi👋

I love signing, but also, I have experience with disability from both sides (chronic pain and working in assisted living). To me, serving a community you identify with just hits different. I know many Deaf people don't identify as disabled and I've never really been deaf, but I think there are a lot of parallels between my experiences facing inaccessibility as well as the pride and assumptions that come with being trans and the experience of many Deaf people I've met.

I'm also immersed in the Deaf community. Like I said earlier, it's important to me to be a part of the community I serve, but that's not the reason I interact with the Deaf community. I genuinely prefer socializing in ASL. People used to think I was an introvert, but now I go to social events at least weekly and often multiple times a week because I go to every Deaf event open to hearing people. So really it's more because I'm a hearing person in the community that I want to be an interpreter than the other way around.

Olympics

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

[Image ID: Olympics in American Sign Language. Both hands in F handshape interlock and switch places as the move to the side like links on a chain. End ID]

Better

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Better in American Sign Language. Hand in open B swipes across chin and ends at the side of the face in A handshape. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green and blue in different stages of the sign. Face outline and lips are blue.

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Rainbow

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Rainbow in American Sign Language. Hand in 4 hanshape, palm down on non-dominant side arcs and ends on dominant side, palm up. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple in different stages of the sign. Background is white.

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Stereotypes

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Stereotypes in American Sign Language. The sign labels: fingertips of U shape brush across open B handshape a few times. And the sign universal: hands in Y handshape, palm down move horizontally in a circle. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green, blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign.

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