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This post includes a video which talks about captioning and its importance to the Deaf Community. Scroll down to watch this video, which is captioned to allow for Equal Communication Access to all of  Deaf Pagan Crossroads readers. Watch this video, give it some serious thought, and then share this link with all of your [...]

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The Deaf Community lost a very special friend recently with the death of Chuck Baird. Chuck showing some of that warm humor for which he was known Chuck was a brilliant Deaf artist especially known for his skill in incorporating aspects of Deaf Culture (particularly sign language) into his artwork. One of Chuck’s paintings, showing [...]

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Recently I have begun corresponding with a Deaf family who has been studying about Paganism and undertaking their own spiritual journey down the Pagan Path. Both the wife and husband are Deaf, and they have three Deaf children.Together, the family has been begun celebrating the Wheel of the Year and eight Sabbats. I recently shared [...]

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Recently I’ve put up a couple of posts here at the Crossroads about captioning your videos…an issue which – as a Deaf person myself – is near and dear to my heart, as well as an important one for many deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Since many people do use YouTube for downloading their [...]

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In a previous post, I talked about the importance of adding captions to the videos that you create, in order for them to be accessible to deaf and hard of hearing individuals. In that post, I mentioned that YouTube has come up with a new automatic captioning program by which it can automatically add captions [...]

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(photo showing sculpture of the sign “relationship/connect”) As my Crossroads readers know, this blog is my attempt to merge my identity as a Deaf person with my Pagan spirituality. Some of my posts focus on Deaf issues, some of my posts focus on Pagan issues. And some of them focus on both. That merger of [...]

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(graphic showing sign language pictures for “law obey must you”) Greetings Ocean, We are writing you in hopes of giving you a better understanding about our organization and how our event and community work. That’s not the issue here. You keep trying to divert away from the real issue by making irrelevant arguments about how [...]

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(graphic showing a person’s head with a tree and roots growing in the brain area) As previously explained to you, our event exists because of the VOLUNTEER support of the participants – not in spite of them. Please, we encourage and support and welcome and invite you to work with us in coordinating and establishing [...]

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(photo of the ASL sign for “advocate”)  On its face, you appear to make demands for your needs without considering the sacrifices others similarly situated have made in coming to our event to assist in creating such spaces/activities/micro-communities. You would rather have others do for you, when you seem to be ideally the individual who could [...]

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(photo of a woman’s face with an angry demanding expression, pointing a finger out) We ask that you not try to damage our event for what it is. At this point in time, the gathering cannot happen any other way than we’ve described above. You must know that Pagan communities, organizations, churches across the country [...]

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(photo showing hands bending together to make a heart, framing an ocean sunset) Finally, Ocean, we send you: an invitation to work with us for our event next year, as we have described above; acceptance of who you are as a Pagan and as a member and spokesperson for/on behalf of the Deaf Community; energy [...]

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This post includes a video, which uses American Sign Language (ASL) and is also captioned for the “signing impaired.” Scroll down to watch this video.  There is also a non-signed version with printed lyrics for those who prefer to watch such.   The first day of May is commonly known as Beltane, and also referred [...]

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