Deafies in Drag are youtubers who post weekly comedy drag sketches each week. They have reached a wide audience, sharing their experiences as deaf, gay and Latinx drag queens, and so their videos have been described as a form of intersectional activism (Feenstra and Kessel, 2020). This sketch depicts the […]
LAUREN WOOLLEY
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Terry Galloway is a writer, director and performer. Her 2009 memoir ‘Mean Little deaf Queer’ describes her life growing up and navigating the world as a deaf queer woman. Galloway identifies as ‘little d’ deaf, having grown up relying on speech and lip-reading to communicate and having received a cochlear […]
This BSL poem by David Ellington has a very political theme. It focuses around fighting various forms of oppression and how embracing your various identities, acts as a form of resistance to that oppression. The videos below are from Deaf Rainbow UK, and show various coming out stories and educational […]
Chella Man is a Deaf, trans, genderqueer, Chinese, Jewish artist. Man grew up in a hearing family and received a mainstream education. He received ASL lessons from a one-to-one tutor growing up, however without being immersed in the language i.e. among deaf peers, he found it difficult to pick up. […]
I think this poem by Clayton Valli illustrates how communities resist oppression, coming back stronger when society tries to ‘weed’ them out. AIDS disproportionally affected the deaf gay community during the 80’s. Whilst there was a distinct lack of information and horrendous attitudes directed towards the gay community in general, […]
Examples of signs done using GSV, characterised by exaggerated movements and greater wrist flicking, creating a more ‘camp’ signing style (Moges, 2020). Below is a video of a signed renga (a collaborative poem) created by Rezenet Moges (left), John Meletse (centre) and Daline Maasdorp (right). Within the poem “butch” and […]