Rogan Shannon
Deaf Queer Creator
Category: A Deaf Perspective
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End of Deaf Awareness Month
Video: https://youtu.be/nUo8KqvCueE Today’s a short post! I just wanted to close out Deaf Awareness Month, and it’s not Deaf Awareness Month if you don’t mention captions somehow. But because a lot of other people have already made really great videos, I’m not going to make my own. I will just link them. Rikki has a couple.…
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International Week of the Deaf | Deaf Awareness Month
Video: https://youtu.be/IZxPpwhtKkw Here’s another Deaf Awareness Month post! This week is International Week of the Deaf. Obviously, this is to celebrate deaf people and bring awareness to their access needs, to the fact that we exist, we have languages, we have culture, we are amazing people. As many of you know, I lived abroad for one…
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Sign Names | ASL Ponderings + Deaf Awareness Month
Video: https://youtu.be/J5TFvlWeBjw So… I’m finally getting around to Deaf Awareness Month videos. Oops! Hello and welcome to a crash course in sign names. This is an ASL Ponderings slash Deaf Awareness Month video. I’m going to start with the basics: what is a sign name? In the signing community, sign names are a way to identify who…
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Disability Misconceptions Tag
Video: https://youtu.be/_0pAbCt6zw8 No more Q&A videos for a while! Hello and welcome. I was tagged to do the Disability Misconceptions Tag by Rikki Poynter so that’s what I’m doing today. I will link Rikki’s video here, and the original tag which was done by Nicola here. There are just five questions, so this probably will be…
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ASL vs Auslan | Deaf Awareness Month
I show differences between ASL and Auslan, plus some ASL regional differences. (There will be no blog post, since this is all sign-based.)
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ADA and HR 620 | Deaf Awareness Month
Video: https://youtu.be/qe9jQrpg6G4 Hello and welcome. Today I want to discuss a bill that Congress is trying to get through right now, HR 620. I’m not going to go into great detail about this, since Annie Elainey made a video explaining it a bit more in depth. But basically, this bill wants to roll back protections afforded…
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Levels of Power | ASL Ponderings & Deaf Awareness Month
No blog post, this is very sign-based. Video:
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deaf vs Deaf | Deaf Awareness Month
Video: https://youtu.be/LIpJqFeC91E Hello and welcome to another Deaf Awareness Month post! In my previous post/video, I briefly mentioned big D Deaf and small d deaf. Today I’m going more in-depth about that. The simplest explanation of the difference is this: Big D = culturally Deaf Small d = medically deaf In the community, Deaf is…
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Disability and Queerness | Deaf Awareness Month
Video: https://youtu.be/qBb8csox3d0 Welcome to the first post of Deaf Awareness Month! I’m starting off big – combining disability and queerness. I want to be clear here that when I say disability, I’m including physical, emotional, and educational disabilities. Basically, any kind of disability – and yes, I’m including deaf people in this. For those who aren’t…