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 […]
Deaf Queer Artists
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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 […]
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. […]