Greetings! As we begin a new year, many Pagan organizations are beginning to plan their events for the year. Most of these events take place during the summer, usually around the Summer Solstice, although some take place during the spring (around the time of Beltaine on May 1st) or during the fall, (around the time [...]
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Pagan-Friendly Sign Language Interpreters
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language on Thursday February 28 2008 | 10 Comments »
Deaf-Friendly, Pagan-Friendly Spiritual Conference in Baltimore
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Divination, Equal Communication Access, Healing, Herbs, Interpreting, Irish/Celtic, Magick, Paganism, Ritual, Sign Language, Spirituality, Uncategorized, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Sunday February 24 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve gotten a number of comments and emails from individuals in the DC/MD/VA area wanting to know about Deaf-Friendly Pagan events in the area. Here’s one you might want to check out… It’s the Ecumenicon Conference, an annual spiritual event that focuses on exploring various spiritual paths, including Paganism. This conference is sponsored by the [...]
Eyes of Desire 2 – The Video!
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Art & Literature, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Interpreting, Sign Language, Spirituality on Sunday October 7 2007 | 5 Comments »
Due to some technical problems, I was unable to embed the video into my first post… I’ve resolved this problem, so I now present to you… EYES OF DESIRE 2 – THE VIDEO CLIP (this video is produced in ASL with English subtitles) If you would like to learn more about Eyes of Desire [...]
Hearing Aids Go to the Birds???
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Deafness, Humor, Nature on Sunday July 1 2007 | 19 Comments »
You gotta wonder what this bird was thinking…. photo by rpiker101 BY THE WAY… IF ANYONE WANTS TO TRY COMING UP WITH A “CAPTION THIS PHOTO” QUOTE, FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR CAPTION FOR THIS PHOTO BELOW!
Interpreted Women’s Festival
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Interpreting, Music, Sign Language, Spirituality, Women, Women's Spirituality on Monday June 25 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I know this is cutting it really close timewise, for which I humbly, humbly apologize… but I only found out about this event last week, and just found out the other day that there will indeed be interpreters for it! At Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois (which is near Bloomington – about two hours [...]
I Am a Pagan
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Magick, Nature, Paganism, Spirituality on Tuesday May 29 2007 | 28 Comments »
I am a Pagan. I am a part of the whole of Nature. The rocks, the animals, the plants, the elements, and the stars are my relatives. Other humans are my sisters and brothers, whatever their races, colors, genders, ages, nationalities, religions, or lifestyles might be. The Earth is my mother, and the Sun is [...]
Is Pagan OK In the Deaf Community?
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan on Tuesday May 8 2007 | 25 Comments »
Recently I was reading a post on the blog Der Sankt Speaks in which Ben Vess asks “Is Gay OK In the Deaf Community?” In this post, he discussed his own experiences with growing up as an openly gay boy in a Deaf residential school, and how he was well-accepted by the others at the [...]
Is Deaf a Religion? Hmmm…
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Paganism, Spirituality on Tuesday April 17 2007 | 6 Comments »
This morning I stopped by one of my favorite blogsites – DeafDC.com, which is a collection of deaf and hearing bloggers from the Washington, DC area who blog on a number of interesting topics…some related to deafness, and others related to non-deaf topics. It’s one of my favorite sites, and I’ve even had a few [...]
Signing from a Hearing Perspective
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality on Friday March 23 2007 | 7 Comments »
Signing from a Hearing Perspective by Yvonne Aburrow As someone who speaks German and knows how to pronounce Welsh, I get irritated by people saying that German is an ugly guttural language, and Welsh must be completely unpronounceable because it’s got all those Ws in it. Then there’s the old chestnuts about how Italian opera [...]
Blessings to Carl! (a.k.a. “how to fingerspell all them goddess names”)
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Archives #4 Pagan Thoughts and Writings, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Women's Spirituality on Wednesday March 7 2007 | 16 Comments »
Yesterday I put up a post discussing the first line of The Charge of the Goddess – the one with those umpteen names of the Goddess in it, and discussed how challenging that line can be when it comes to interpreting it, because you have to fingerspell every one of those names. It’s not that [...]
To Capitalize…or not to capitalize?
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Paganism on Tuesday January 30 2007 | 8 Comments »
This past weekend I was surfing the ‘net, just looking for tidbits of information here and there, when I came across this site I had never seen before. It wasn’t anything new and exciting; in fact, it wasn’t all that eye-catching. It was basically a fact sheet on Paganism that someone had typed up and [...]
A Pagan Blessing…in ASL
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Paganism, Sign Language on Wednesday January 24 2007 | 16 Comments »
I don’t profess to be an expert in American Sign Language – I was born into a hearing family, attended hearing schools, and was raised oral for the first 18 years of my life. I didn’t begin to learn sign language until I was around 16, and that was Signed English as used in a [...]
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