latine disabled deaf queer immigrant. filmmaker/writer. decolonizing and catching up on loving all aspects of myself i spent years being ashamed of ๐AUS/LAX
itโs amazing how a white interpreter in this predominantly white field (that can continue to bless him with 40+ hours easily) decided to sue cuz his job is rightfully given to Black interpreters for Black Deaf actors
caucacity is dangerous yall. Keith Wann is banned in my eyes
@zeeyardtrix
LITERALLY ME. iโve been waiting impatiently for one of my friends to get married so i can go to my first wedding already, and my best friend is finally getting married this November and iโll be her best man ๐ฅน
i love being Disabled/Deaf
but right now? iโm absolutely ashamed to see a large group of white Deaf ppl attacking Black and Brown Deaf ppl online ie
@bluejay19xx
and Deaf Queen Foreverrr simply for solidarity with Palestine
it all goes back to white supremacy and colonialism
this is my coming out story as a latine deaf queer immigrant person ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ง๐ฝโโ๏ธโฟ๏ธ๐ฆ
(a very summarized version of it at least!)
@IIamameeve
wait she really would make a great suegra that would jack up the protagonistโs car and poison her cat to stop the protagonist from marrying her son
if i may rant one more time? i will anyway because this is my twitter
now.. how the fuck did a white deaf christian org secure $4.8 millions of dollars in funds to make a white deaf jesus movie. FOUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!
white privilege really do get white folks far in life huh
@missundaaztood
itโs weird that hearies are almost always shocked when they find thereโs no universal sign language and demand one yet they donโt make time to learn sign languageโฆ make it make sense
@ykhong
it is harder to do this as Disabled/Deafโฆ i changed my name recently and had a traumatizing experience with TSA. itโs scary when the โauthorityโ is agitated and thereโs a communication barrier =/
but if i were hearing, iโd absolutely do this to combat survelliance state
@LGeoffreyM
@amaannapcan
@iconickdramas
in the manga, Joker is the person to guide you between real life and Borderland (limbo)
basically these who survived the meteorite (death) did die in that one minute of heart stopping (limbo, between life and afterlife) and they fought to return to life. itโs beautiful writing
if youโre a sign language interpreter and youโre using your voice to discus topics related to the Disabled/Deaf communities on social media, youโre really just catering to the hearing audience and what do i say to that? fuck you
@SFdirewolf
a lot of Californian farms have been flooded so we're going to see a lot of rising costs for food in the next several weeks if not months :/
so today, while on hold, the VRS interpreter asked me if she can say something off-role. i said sure. she said โi heard a lot about you. congratulations on _*โ
* _ is known by only a few people in my inner circle and this info isnโt online anywhere yet. summ not adding up
(5/) Deaf interpreters are native and fluent in sign language(s). Deaf interpreters are the true interpreters. i cannot emphasize this enough.
stop employing ablebodied/hearing interpreters alone and calling it "access." enough with ableism, audism and phonocentrism. enough.
how can you be a self-branded โcivil rights lawyerโ while allegedly accusing a fellow Deaf business of โdesign patent infringementโ that could bankrupt them
let alone somehow successfully patenting the universal sign ILY ๐ค๐ฝ that shouldnโt belong to you alone
make it make sense!
why does Mavrick Fisher still have a huge platform on f*cebook? i hate seeing so many deafies eating him up there. i hate that he, a white ass man and murderer, is now capitalizing on my native language, LSM. fuck him and everyone who enables his platform
oh jeez
@DeafMissions
is HOMOPHOBIC
who i am isnโt โa battle to overcome.โ iโm proud to be a Brown Latine Queer christian.
also, Jesus ainโt white. stop white-washing Jesus. this is perpetuating white supremacy. this film has ๐ซ support from me. iโm boycotting
@DeafMissions
if i may rant one more time? i will anyway because this is my twitter
now.. how the fuck did a white deaf christian org secure $4.8 millions of dollars in funds to make a white deaf jesus movie. FOUR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!
white privilege really do get white folks far in life huh
doctors and audiologists making a sole recommendation for cochlear implant surgeries and speech therapy for Deaf babies and children with no mention of ASL is eugenics, ableism and capitalism
so i was in film school and i asked my counselor if i could sub a required course on editing audios. she said no and referred me to the Dean who also said no bc it wouldn't be "fair" to other students
my siblings in Christ, i'm fully Deaf and i have never heard a single sound...
Dr. Kristina Kuznetsova, Psy.D. โฟ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Disabled people, whatโs the worst experience youโve had with an educator?
Iโll start.
Shout out to the graduate faculty that humiliated me repeatedly in front of my peers and told me I was using my disability as an excuse when I complained.
I just wanted my doctorate, man.
i called in two hearing interpreters for CPC violations, gently to the best of my ability.
i then shared this situation w/ the hiring agency, and the agency told me i was making accusations, even though i have evidence.. it is SICK to see abled/hearing folks defending each other
i am really disappointed with
@WID_org
's access practices.
over a month ago, i requested DIs as my accommodation in my registration. today, i went to the webinar only to see a prerecorded webinar with 2 hearing interpreters who transliterated btwn spoken English and ASL
(1/)
information is largely inaccessible to the Disabled/Deaf communities especially when you consider that many of us grew up language deprived with no access to language but now interpreters want to make inaccessible โeducationalโ content? yeah fuck these interpreters
today someone at work said to me โyou look really exhaustedโ and ๐ซ i thought to myself, โdonโt cry at workโ and held my tears in but man this time right now is rough
yes im angry to see this rise in social media interpreters acting as if theyโre advocates, omitting to SIGN and speaking with their voices, consequently making their content basically limited to hearing people and a small portion of Disabled/Deaf people who are fluent in English
Deaf and Disabled trans and nonbinary people, do NOT fly if your name isnโt reflected on your ID/DL yet and even if you have more than one appropriate documents showing your name change
@AUStinAirport
i will filing a formal complaint against your officers Hodge, Neri and Howard
the โidk enoughโ excuse is overused in the Deaf communities online, and it is disgusting cuz atp, we have enough content and resources to do research
silence is complicity
we all are responsible for the genocides of Palestine/Congo/Sudan and the least we can do is acknowledge
Ive heard some variation of โI donโt know enough about Palestineโ or โI donโt watch the newsโ from three different โช๏ธ ppl in the last few days and honestly while I always give people grace,
It reeks of โช๏ธ supremacy and Iโm just really over it.
i was really not prepared at all to receive so many hate messages and hurtful accusations. a white deaf person even posted a video calling me a terrorist... all because i defended Palestine and a Black woman who defended Palestine. how do i even process/navigate any of thatโฆ?
@memandala
yikes at the majority of the mentions being white.
there are Black Deaf professionals, Indigenous Deaf professionals, Asian Deaf professionals, Latine Deaf professionals, and so on โฆpero no, โDeaf twitterโ is really eurocentric
(4/) so what if the HI graduated from g*llaudet?? i was baffled to read that response on Zoom. is that how they're really justifying the use of HIs over DIs..... really... truly, signless.
0๏ธโฃ signs to sign
please pardon my language but FUCK THAT!
in this phonocentric society, im forced to use interpreters. do you really think i wanna spend my last breathes w/ terps whose subconscious biases and micro aggressions i have to endure with everyday??
surround me w/ Disabled/Deaf folks.
@missundaaztood
itโs so ironic that non-signing hearies wanna police interpreters now, yet there are non-deaf influencers teaching and appropriating asl, and there are Deaf kids being deprived of language. and this is what theyโre investing their time inโฆ? ๐
(2/) this is called PSE. PSE is a system, NOT a language. when an interpreter transliterates, they are NOT interpreting. PSE is difficult to receive/process info. PSE was "meant" for language acquisition but that is another story for another time.
what i don't appreciate is...
@gaialect
like someone else said in the comments, i wish i could take some back but alas.
there is no right number, and one of the most invaluable lessons i've learned is that self-comparison is violence against self. you are where you are meant to be.
@signingmango
think about how hearing interpreters have a luxury of 30-60 hours of assignments weekly while you and i and other DIs barely get 10-20 hours of assignment for a MONTH and then theyโre doing this voicing shit online for clout, it really leaves an even more bitter taste
(3/)
@WID_org
staff, Kat Zigmont and Heather Duncan, refuting and invalidating my experience of experiencing access barriers. i tried to explain that DIs are entirely different from HIs but they were quick to invalidate me and said the HI is from g*llaudet
it is exhausting to be tone-policed when advocating for equity in an eurocentric and ableist society. some people are too quick to divert and tone-police, saying you're too strong, mean, disrespectful, rude, etc
eurocentrism, ableism and respectability politics are evil. so evil
to be honest, itโs not just celebrity white women. itโs them in general
white women teachers in Deaf ed,
white women interpreters,
white women ITP/IEP teachers,
white women access coordinators that donโt know asl,
and white women in DJ spaces.
you name it. theyโre all dangerous
i read recently that the internet is dangerously near its literal end because now with AI, the internet could be infinitely loaded with artificially generated information to the point itโs virtually impossible to filter and find factual infoโฆ it makes me sick thinking about it
@shawtyastrology
capricorn moon here. i feel like iโve endured multiple lifetimes of hardships and iโm really ready to start enjoying life ๐ฅฒ๐ซ
@ItsEmilyKaty
i divide a job task in percentages like if i do this, itโs 25% completed, if i do this and that, itโs 50% etc and i try to be more gentle with myself by allowing myself get distracted (instead of fighting it) but with discipline, if that makes sense
@Be8by
@ChallengeMTV
pretends to be sad so fans can go โaww she didnโt winโ only for the fans to find out she won all this time
BUT i rebuke this in the name in the name of Jesus Christ. im counting on Horacio and Olivia to win ๐ค๐ฝ
this isn't how you say gay sex in ASL
this is a misinformative and distasteful joke at the expense of ASL as a legitimate language, especially when you consider that there are many non-Deaf people getting paid to teach hand nonsense that isn't ASL
white Deaf advocates LOVE discussing audism/language deprivation alone
all with zero acknowledgement of white Deaf supremacy (or in their words, "Deaf elitism"), antiBlackness, racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, xenophobia, classism and etc
i wonder why
Many
#Deaf
leaders tell me they fear discussing
#racism
โtoo muchโ in
#DeafEd
and that it takes away from concerns about audism/Deaf children.
The truth? We canโt address audism as a Deaf community until we also address racism within the Deaf community.
my autistic icks as a deafie:
- rain drops sliding on my body
- silk
- wool
- warm/baked fruits
- sand under my fingernails
- not having access to wet wipes or a bidet
- not knowing time
- hearing interpreters using a sign for a polysemous word but with the wrong meaning!!!! ffs
My autistic icks:
- wet socks
- not wearing socks / feet touching things
- mushy warm things
- food that have liquid inside (gushers for example)
- silk / satin texture
- unexpected loud noises
- the feeling when clothes clings to my body
- dark shallow areas of lakes/pools
and the fact that Makarri is played by a Black Latina and (finally authentically and culturally) Deaf actor
@LaurenRidloff
makes this scene even more iconic
this also goes beyond twitter. critical dialogues, spaces and events within the Deaf communities are almost always exclusive to white Deaf people, who tends to emphasize Deafness alone and away from race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, citizenship status, and even disability
@memandala
yikes at the majority of the mentions being white.
there are Black Deaf professionals, Indigenous Deaf professionals, Asian Deaf professionals, Latine Deaf professionals, and so on โฆpero no, โDeaf twitterโ is really eurocentric
this is not only selfish but also DETRIMENTAL to DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Deaf and Hard of Hearing artists and businesses. ASL belongs to us all.
Deaf ecosystem where?? this is not okay
i believe that i met God/Universe when i got in a car crash and ended up in emergency room, and iโll never forget Their beautiful sense of serenity and peace
also, i believe that i came across something demonic when i tried **** and ill never forget its face either
this reminds me of when i was pulled over several years ago. cop said i got a warrant. i asked for what? he said he doesnโt know but i have to call the court. i asked him which court. he said he doesnโt know?? and he let me go
i called the court in EVERY county of DFW andโฆ nada
I got pulled over, the cop claimed I didnโt do the stop ๐ but I have the footage of me doing the complete stop and I told her, she was like ok have a good night. WTF?! Cops just be lying bro
@shaTIRED
scorpio men... i didn't even want to date him in the first place but he persistently pursued me and i caved in only for him to traumatize me in the end, ยฟy para ke??
great question! weโre an ethnicity so itโs nuanced
Latine is geographical (people who are Indigenous to the lands in the Latin American countries)
while hispanic is linguistic (people taking pride in the white colonizer language that is Spanish)
#Namor
is Indigenous Latino
Latinos, donโt beat my ass cuz Iโm being genuine, not sassy here but isnโt Namor indigenous representation as he explicitly denounces Spanish in the film and speaks his Mayan dialect, thus not ~Latino~?
this. if Sheena or i ever lashed out like Martha did, we would have faced serious consequences. thatโs a luxury Black and Brown people donโt have. we canโt show emotions.
im getting real tired of white folks trying to defend their own, Seth Gerlis, Martha Anger and others.
@Lady1241
@bluejay19xx
so that makes it ok for d**th threats to be sent to a Black woman for showing solidarity for Black and Brown Palestinans who are facing a genocide? you are not ok at all
@lady1241
@topheravila
Not $4.8 million. PBS paid them for $10 million to make a movieโฆ I was suppose to be working for them as a makeup artists. But then they changed their mind the very last minute and expected me to do it for free. They were going to just only pay and cover flight and hotel..
@ChallengeMTV
i am almost 100% confident that production is reading tweets and being spiteful on purpose by not bringing back popular cast like Cara, Paulie, Ashley, Sarah Rice, and others and choosing people like IKEA, IKEA 2, and the vacation alliance..i'm onto you
@BunimMurray
@DannyWascou
โผ๏ธ FROM โผ๏ธ THE โผ๏ธ R!VER โผ๏ธ TO โผ๏ธ THE โผ๏ธSE@โผ๏ธ P
@LESTINE
โผ๏ธ WILL โผ๏ธ BE โผ๏ธ FREE โผ๏ธ
โผ๏ธ ALSO โผ๏ธ WH!TE โผ๏ธ SUPREMACY โผ๏ธ AND โผ๏ธ COLONIALISM โผ๏ธ NEED โผ๏ธ TO โผ๏ธ STFU โผ๏ธ AND โผ๏ธ STOP โผ๏ธ TWISTING โผ๏ธ INDIGENOUS โผ๏ธWORDS โผ๏ธ
BREAKING: The House votes 234-188 to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib for โpromoting false narrativesโ about the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and for her use of the phrase "from the river to the sea," which is considered by some as a call for ending Israel's existence.