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es: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Both hands in B handshape alternately circle downward. Motion is similar to the sign for science or pouring beakers. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink. Background is white.

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Gay

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The sign for Gay in American Sign Language. G handshape touches chin. Face, lips and hand are in pride colors (black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple) in a gradient. Background is white.

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art niche spotlight - De'VIA!!

De'VIA art, standing for "Deaf View/Image Art," is a form of expressive visual art created by Deaf artists!!!

The term was coined in 1989 by nine Deaf artists (Miller [painter], Johnston [sculptor], Sonnenstrahl [art historian], Baird [painter], Wonder [sculptor], Wilhite [painter], Vasnick [fiber artist], Creighton [fiber artist], Lai-Yok Ho [video artist]) collaborating to create expressive artwork to unveil at the Deaf Way Festival and a word to accurately describe their artworks in relation to their deafness. These artists created a mural (below) acting as part of their signatures, serving as the first official artwork made under the De'VIA title.

(Patti Durr, HandEyes)

De'VIA follows a basic criteria of 4 elements:

Deaf/Deaf-Blind expression of affirmation, resistance, and/or liberation

View of the Deaf/Deaf-Blind experience in the world

Imagery/motifs/symbols of the Deaf Experience

Art, Activism, Aesthetics, and Authentic Expressions of the Deaf Experience

(Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture)

It can be identified through expression of the Deaf Experience or any variety of it, rather than by the deafness of the artist; in other words, all artwork created to communicate the Deaf Experience in any way is De'VIA, but not all artwork created by Deaf artists is. It can also be identified by Deaf artists' general tendencies to use bold colors with contrasting values, varied texturing, and exaggerated features in relation to hands and faces!!

(DeafArt.org)

some key De'ViA artworks by key Deaf artists!!

(i preface this with a slight body horror cw)

Bell School, Betty G. Miller

Ameslan Prohibited, Betty G. Miller

(part of the first show focused exclusively on art with Deaf Themes, 1972)

Family Dog, Susan Dupor

Art No. 2, Chuck Baird

(De'VIA exhibited at the 3rd and 4th Deaf Studies Conferences, 1993-1999)

Poetic Hand, Paul Johnston

(part of the first national touring exhibit on Deaf Culture Art, 1999)

(artwork timeline and events courtesy of DeafArt.org)

It's good!

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Deafula (1975) - full movie | Deafula (USA, 1975), de Peter Wolf. O primeiro filme de horror filmado com os diálogos em linguagem de sinais

Deafula (USA, 1975), de Peter Wolf. O primeiro filme de horror filmado com os diálogos em linguagem de sinais. É uma produção independente

Anyway I'm watching Deafula

hello! I was wondering if these were ok to use as emojis (with credit of course) and if so, could the backgrounds be transparent?? Either way as someone who just took a class on asl and have been signing my entire life these look great!

Thank you so much!

Is there a specific sign you would like transparent? Or any signs I haven't done yet?

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.

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I really like hiking, painting, and game nights. My favorite games are Hand and Foot, Rummy, Spit, Spanking Yoda, Dinosaur Tea Party, and Quiplash.

Game

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i know hearing people on this website love to pass around those posts with links to free sign language lessons but you know you need to actually put effort into learning about Deaf culture, too, right?

I had a question about your commissions- is it $5 per word on the finger spellings or $5 overall? I presumed the former but wasn’t sure

I'll say up to 20 characters