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Reblogging because it's my birthday next week :3

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]

Coffee

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Coffee in American Sign Language. Both hands in S handshape, palms facing signer, are stacked with dominant hand on top moving in a circular motion. 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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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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Outsiders are not not saving a language by learning it.

While I’m personally grateful services like Tribalingual exist, creating some academic access to Indigenous languages, particularly for Indigenous diaspora (if they can afford it), I’m extremely dubious of the notion that a outsiders learning an Indigenous language is somehow “saving” it. There was a testimonial from some white American girl learning Ainu itak, and she spoke of it as if she were collecting some rare Pokemon card before it went out of print or something, framing it in typical dying Native rhetoric. What is she going to do with Ainu itak, except as some obscure lingual trophy?

If you want to save a language, save the people.

Language means nothing without history and culture breathing life into it, and in turn we are disconnected from our history and ancestors without it. Support Indigenous quality of life, ACCESS to quality education, quality health services (mental and physical), land and subsistence rights, CLEAN DRINKING WATER, advocate against police brutality and state violence, DEMAND ACTION FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN.

Damn, if you really want to “save the language” pay for an Indigenous person’s classes for them to reconnect to their mother tongues. I’m not saying outsiders shouldn’t learn languages they’re invited to learn, but don’t pretend like you learning conversational Ainu itak is saving it from extinction.

Bee

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Bee in American Sign Language. Hand in F handshape taps cheek then B handshape brushes side of the chin. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign. Background is transparent.

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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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Party

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Party in America Sign Language. Both hands in Y handshape twist wrists together so thumb and pinky are pointing the same way on both hands. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green, blue, and purple in different stages of the sign.

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hi! do you make these icons yourself?

also i was wondering if it would be okay to use them, with credit to you?

I do! I use Scetch (an app no longer in the app store (I've had the same phone for 6 and a half years)). First, I look at various sources (typically SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined), then decide how I'm going to depict the sign.

It depends. I don't want people to use them like a learning tool because ASL is a 4 dimensional language and I use a 2 dimensional space. What would you want to use them for?

In honor of summer, can you maybe show pool related signs??

Sure! The sign pool is usually fingerspelled.

[Image ID: overlapping green and blue hands spelling pool in American Sign Language. End ID]

I'll do some more summer signs in the next few days!

Summer

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Summer in American Sign Language. Index finger swipes across forehead, starting in 1 handshape and ending in X handshape.

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Cat

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Cat in American Sign Language. Hand in open F handshape next to nose closes into F handshape as it moves away. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent shades of brown. Cat nose and mouth are black.

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