North of the Stupid Line

22 September 2008
The Royal Association for Deaf people (RAD) and the Legal Services Commission (LSC) are proud to announce the launch of a pilot specialist casework service in British Sign Language (BSL) via the Internet to eligible clients. RAD Legal Services has been working in partnership with the LSC and online interpreting service provider Significan’t [...]

I’m fuming after reading this piece of crap. So, the RNId purports to represent the 8.7 million D/deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK, huh? If the RNId’s latest campaign is anything to go by, it’s plain for all to see that they do NOT represent us at all.
How dare they [...]

Yes, another post about being Deaf. If you’re bored with this topic, go somewhere else! You’ve got to expect it; I’m Deaf after all.
I was just reading this post, which provides an extremely insightful account of a hearing person’s experience of the Madrid WFD Congress. It summarises rather neatly what [...]

BSL translation coming soon.
Following on from Dennis’ post on The Talkie (albeit focused on unity within the Deaf community in the USA), it would be interesting to see whether unity can be achieved within the Deaf (( Deaf, used in this context to cover Deaf, Deafblind, deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing people )) [...]

BSL translation coming soon.
There has been a spate of posts on Deaf UK and individual blogs recently discussing audism. Erick Ketcham, an American Deafist ASL user, has recently joined Deaf UK, and has contributed some thought-provoking posts on the following topics:

There are cultural differences between the UK Deaf community and the American Deaf Community;
There [...]