Sabrina over at Pagan Dawn recently chose to bestow Deaf Pagan Crossroads with the following award: Thank you, Sabrina. I’m both honored and humbled. Pagan Dawn is an infant in the blogosphere, begun by a woman who readily confesses to being new both to blogging and to Pagan Spirituality. I enjoy reading it, if for [...]
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You like me, you really like me… (and I like you too!)
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Humor, Paganism, Photography, Poetry/Prose, Sign Language, Spirituality, Universal Issues, Women, Women's Spirituality on Monday September 15 2008 | 2 Comments »
Reasonable Accomodations for Closed Captioned Televisions?
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Uncategorized on Thursday August 21 2008 | 14 Comments »
Are employers required to assure that televisions in private residences where they employ staff to care for clients are closed captioned for any deaf or hard of hearing staff to be able to enjoy watching television the same as the hearing staff do? Would this fall under the category of “reasonable accommodations”, even if the [...]
Does Hypnosis Work In the Deaf Community?
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Healing, Interpreting, Sign Language on Sunday June 29 2008 | 30 Comments »
A good friend of mine, who is a licensed Mental Health Specialist and has a background in hypnotherapy, sent me an email recently asking an interesting question: Can hypnosis be used effectively with someone who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing? Apparently he got into an interesting discussion with another hypnotist who questioned whether or [...]
Winning Jockey Has Deaf Son
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Beasts and Animals, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Sign Language on Friday June 6 2008 | 7 Comments »
This Saturday, many eyes will be focused on the Belmont Stakes in New York, as Big Brown, a strapping bay three-year-old colt, attempts to become the first to win the Triple Crown in thirty years and thus go down in horse racing history. Big Brown will be piloted by jockey Kent Desormeaux, who rode the [...]
So How Does One “Screw the Pooch?”
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Humor, Interpreting, Sign Language on Thursday June 5 2008 | 9 Comments »
In this post, Ocean discusses the struggles of translating expressions from one language to the other, and offers up a challenge to her readership (scroll down to the bottom to read the challenge!) Note: This post does use some language that might be considered crude and vulgar, but is necessary as part of the writing [...]
But Hello Anyway…
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Universal Issues on Saturday May 17 2008 | 10 Comments »
Not too long ago, I published a post here at the Crossroads entitled “Too Deaf? Too Pagan? Too Firewalking?” This post was written as a response to a comment which was left on yet another one of my posts here on this blog… a comment which I found to be rather interesting. This reader was [...]
Too Deaf? Too Pagan? Too Firewalking?
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Ethics, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Universal Issues on Sunday May 11 2008 | 22 Comments »
I woke up this morning and checked my email, only to discover that I had a new comment to an old post – one that I wrote over a year ago, shortly after I first started Deaf Pagan Crossroads. It’s a response to my post titled “On Being Deaf…and Pagan” – a post I wrote [...]
Jeff Daniels – His Views on His Role in “Sweet Nothing In My Ear”
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Cinema, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language, Uncategorized on Monday April 21 2008 | 17 Comments »
For those interested in watching a captioned video in which Jeff Daniels talks about learning sign language for his role, check out this link: http://www.hallmark.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/article|10001|10051|/HallmarkSite/HallmarkHallOfFame/HHOF_SCENES I was curious to learn more about what Jeff Daniels thought about his role in “Sweet Nothing In My Ear,” in which he played the part of Dan, the hearing [...]
Studying Deaf Paganism
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, witchcraft on Thursday March 27 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been getting a number of emails from ASL and Interpreting students, asking permission to quote from my blog for a paper or project they are doing for one of their classes. I am honored to receive such requests, and happy to grant such permission. I still prefer that you contact me if you do [...]
Why Can’t I Get My Milkshake?
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access on Thursday February 7 2008 | 6 Comments »
If you’re Deaf, you probably already know about the Steak ‘n Shake fiasco. It’s kinda old news by now. But for my readership that isn’t Deaf, and comes here to learn more about deafness, as well as reading my various Pagan posts, I’d like to share a little bit about this incident, which has been [...]
Equal Communication Access Contest Winners
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Thursday October 11 2007 | 1 Comment »
My apologies for the delay in announcing the winners for the Equal Communication Access Blogging/Vlogging Contest. Things were a little delayed due to circumstances beyond our control, but the judges have made their final decisions, and it’s now time to share the results! We did not have as many entries as we had hoped, but [...]
Dancing and Deafhood
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Monday October 8 2007 | 3 Comments »
The below was originally written as a comment in response to my post about whether Deaf people know “how to dance”… not dancing literally; but rather, the concept of standing up for themselves, expressing themselves, and celebrating themselves in the midst of the cultural revolution we seem to be undergoing. I enjoyed reading this comment [...]
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Ocean is the creator & manager of this blog. Born deaf into an all-hearing family, she was raised oral and attended hearing schools. Ocean began learning sign language at the ripe old age of 16, and after meeting a Deaf man began her own journey through Deafhood. She graduated from Gallaudet College (now University), and has held positions both within & outside of the field of Deaf Services.
Ocean has been a practicing Pagan for 30 years, and considers herself "an eclectic witch," with a primary focus on Celtic Spirituality, but an interest in many different areas. A skilled tarot reader, she once donated her services to help raise funds for a Domestic Violence agency. She has also done workshops on aromatherapy, herbalism, & Paganism for the Deaf Community.
As a passionate advocate, Ocean often speaks out on the need for greater access for Deaf people (Pagan or otherwise) - interpreters, captioned videos, CART, etc...and works to build bridges between the Deaf & Hearing communities.
She lives not far from her hometown on the banks of the Ohio River with her two cats, Karma & Gandalf.
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you may email her at oshginva@gmail.comMAKING CONNECTIONS
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