What is dumb, and what is mute? Earlier this year, Deaf Victoria asked journalists not to use the expression “deaf-mute” to describe deaf people who use sign language. This followed newspaper reports on the police investigation into an incident in which a deaf man died. What journalists write, what words they choose, is governed by […]
The double and triple agents: deaf people in history
What did deaf people really think of the tight control of their community of 100 years ago? And what was it like for deaf gays and lesbians at the time? We really don’t know. Not yet. I have been at the State Library of Victoria, browsing through old copies of the publication of what was […]
Reading Red and not feeling so blue
If Red Symons’ reply to Deaf Victoria’s complaints about comments on interpreters on television is anything to go by, there’s just a little more understanding of why they are sometimes there. Ask hearing people about sign language, and they reply in much the same way – they love it. Some think it is beautiful, and […]
What did that prawn really mean?
In the end, not all that much, other than perhaps a cautionary tale of failing to understand your market. This is the advertising poster placed by the audiological services firm, Victorian Hearing, at the end of May 2015. It shows a startling picture of a profile of a woman with a prawn perched […]
“Mum, the dog ate my brain-development device.”
Two posters, ostensibly linked to deafness, follow the attention-grabbing tactic of advertising. Both get it completely wrong
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