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Round 13 Announcement | Queer Lit Readathon
Hello! Today is very exciting, because Kathy and I are announcing the 13th round of Queer Lit Readathon, on the 13th of May. We’ve come up with some fun challenges to honor this number. Our June round runs for the whole month, to celebrate Pride month and give you plenty of time to read as…
Keep readingAll the books I read in 2023 & more! | BookTube
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome! Last year, I never got around to doing any proper book wrap ups. [zooms in] Well. Let’s be honest, I haven’t been posting much to begin with. Since I read a ton last year, I’ve decided that I’ll be trying a different format for this video. I saw someone on…
Keep readingThe Quiltmaker’s Gift | ASL Storytime
Today I tell the story of a magical quiltmaker and a greedy king, written by Jeff Brumbeau and illustrated by Gail de Marcken. This is a book I grew up with, and I just LOVE all of the illustrations. Unfortunately, I couldn’t possibly include every little detail, so I would really encourage looking at a…
Keep readingRound 12 TBR | Queer Lit Readathon
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome! The 12th round of Queer Lit Readathon is here! To the surprise of no one, I didn’t get my announcement or TBR post out on time, but it’s here now. I’m going to keep this very short and to the point. This round is happening December 3rd to 9th. Kathy…
Keep readingDating while Deaf | Deaf Awareness Month
P: Hello, I’m Phelan and welcome to my YouTube— R: *walks in* What are you doing? P: The people have been waiting for a video, so I’m giving them one. R: Nope, no, go back to TikTok! P: Oh come on! They love me— [No Signal screen] Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome! I made a…
Keep readingMotivation who? | Behind the scenes
Hello, I’m Rogan and… Well. It’s been a while! Welcome back. To those people who still follow me, and still support me, I appreciate y’all SO much!! Today, I wanted to talk a little about behind the scenes, both in terms of YouTube and personal life, just to update you on what’s been going on…
Keep readingRound 11 Announcement and TBR | Queer Lit Readathon
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome. This is my very belated announcement, because ADHD. I’ll also tell you what books I plan to read in this month! This is round 11, and the sixth year of doing this. As always, Kathy and I are co-hosting this and as always, we have a guest co-host. This round,…
Keep readingOGL and alternative RPGs | TTRPGs
CW: brief mention of HP Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome! For those who aren’t involved with the TTRPG community, January was a wild time for us. The first half of this video, I’m going to attempt to give you an abbreviated rundown of what happened, because it was a lot. The second half will be…
Keep readingSecond half of 2022 books | BookTube
Hello I’m Rogan and welcome back! Alright, I’m [checks wrist] about six months behind on wrapping up the books I’ve read. So today, I’m going to get through all of it as quick as I can. I’ll be doing just a few sentences for each, and if there’s any that you’re curious to know more…
Keep readingD&D: Reroll
[fades into Rogan signing, clearly a Zoom recording] Mountains everywhere, huge mountains rising up in the sky. Moving over a dense forest, there’s a river, a big one. At a distance, it looks small, but as we get closer, you can see it’s a really wide and slow-flowing river. Moving in more, you see a…
Keep readingThe sound of power | Deaf Awareness Month
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome. Recently, Daily Moth did a video about a situation that inspired this video. I won’t go into details of that situation, and I’m going to be speaking broadly here. Today, I just wanted to do a brief video that’s more of a reminder than anything really. For a long, long…
Keep readingDeaf Education and my experience | Deaf Awareness Month
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome! For those who don’t know, September is Deaf Awareness Month, and for the past few years (except 2021) I’ve done a few videos specifically for this month. I have a few things that I hope to get out this month but there will also be some completely unrelated things like…
Keep readingJune Books Wrap Up | BookTube
Hello, I’m Rogan and I’m back! I’ve been gone for various reasons, but I think I should be getting back to it. No promises as always though. Let’s get right into my wrap up of June books! This month, I read ten books and seven of them were for the Queer Lit Readathon in the…
Keep readingMay Books Wrap Up | BookTube
Hello and welcome to my May books! I read eight books, and the majority of what I read this month are graphic novels, so I’ll be going through them fairly quick today. Let’s just get right into it. The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart. January Cole has her hands full with running security at a…
Keep readingMarch & April Books Wrap Up | BookTube
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome to my wrap up for March and April. I read four books each month, let’s get right into it! Black Food: Stories, Art, and Essays by Bryant Terry. This is a gorgeous book that has various recipes born directly from Africa or cultural combining from slaves brought over to the…
Keep readingRound 9 TBR | Queer Lit Readathon
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome. This is my TBR the Queer Lit Readathon. I fully forgot we were supposed to post this today, so… I’m doing this really quick. I already planned to make it a short post anyway, so not that much difference. What I’m doing today is I will tell you the names…
Keep readingRound 9 Announcement | Queer Lit Readathon
There will not be a blog post. What I say in this video is essentially everything on this page: roganshannon.com/queer-lit-read.
Keep readingJanuary and February Books Wrap Up | BookTube
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome to my wrap up for January and February books! Since I was behind anyway, I decided to just combine these two months. Hopefully, I’ll get back to monthly after this! I read six books in January, and four in February, so let’s right into it. I’ll be doing more simple…
Keep readingTrue Biz by Sara Nović | Title Talks
Hello, and welcome to my first Title Talks! This is a series where I will dedicate a post to one book or a whole series, and it might be for various reasons such as I really, really liked the book and want to talk more about it, I have criticism or feel like I need…
Keep readingReflection | Mulan | ASL
This is a song translated into ASL, so there won’t be a blog post. This video also uses an instrumental, so there’s no vocals. The full lyrics are below, and they can also be found here. Reflection – Mulan (Lyrics) [Verse: MULAN]Look at me, I will never pass for a perfect brideOr a perfect daughterCan…
Keep readingBig wrap up of Oct, Nov, and Dec books | BookTube
I know I’m behind on my monthly wrap ups! Hello and welcome to my big wrap up of books I read in October, November, and December! It’s not as bad as it seems, since I read only one book in October, three in November, and a chunk of the books I read during December are…
Keep readingChile, Pizza, Donut, Pineapple, Store | Regional Signs
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome to a new Regional Signs! It’s been a while. Let’s get into it! First, a few additional signs from the previous videos. I will link the playlist here. Two signs from Georgia. Rude, signed like farm but with a Y handshape. Pretend, using the L handshape touching the chin twice,…
Keep reading2021 Look Back, 2022 Goals
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome to the first post of 2022! I want to look back at what I did in 2021, and what I would like to do in 2022. I’ll just be focusing on YouTube here. When I was starting to get ready for this post, I realized that I had made a…
Keep readingMaskenfreiheit
Maskenfreiheit: freedom of wearing a mask. I wrote the text in this video in around 2017-2018, so it was written well before the pandemic and the prevalence of medical masks. I tried multiple times to film this, but could never be happy with the footage. When I went on a deaf artists’ retreat in August…
Keep readingRound 8 Wrap Up | Queer Lit Readathon
Hello, I’m Rogan and welcome to my wrap up for Round 8 of the Queer Lit Readathon! I did not read all of my TBR, but I realized that I could actually cover all of the challenges with what I did read, so I just barely managed a blackout of the bingo board! Let’s get…
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