Recently I have been involved in some education and advocacy efforts within the Pagan Community regarding the need for greater access for Deaf Pagans, or Deaf individuals interested in learning more about Paganism or topics related to Paganism. Rather than trying to “reinvent the wheel” so to speak, or repeating the same thing over and [...]
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Providing Access
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Sunday April 3 2011 | 6 Comments »
SignWriting
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Tuesday March 1 2011 | 6 Comments »
One of my contacts in the Pagan Community is an individual who first introduced me to the concept of signwriting. For those of you who are not familiar with this, signwriting is a writing system which uses visual symbols to represent the handshapes, movements, and facial expressions of signed languages. It is an “alphabet” – [...]
“I Will Use These Hands to Speak Volumes…”
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Sunday February 27 2011 | 1 Comment »
As a deaf person who grew up as a “solitaire” in an all-hearing, non-signing environment…this video made me cry. What a touching, loving, beautiful tribute to his sister. Thank you, Joshua Bennett…for sharing your heart, your soul, and your poem with us.
CSI – The Deaf Episode (final thoughts!)
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Saturday February 5 2011 | 22 Comments »
Because three is one of my favorite numbers, I like to do things in threes. Thus this is my third and final post on the CSI episode featuring the Deaf actors and actresses. Overkill? Maybe – but there are a number of different topics from that show that one can focus on, and I’ve chosen [...]
CSI – The Deaf Episode (continuing thoughts)
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Friday February 4 2011 | 6 Comments »
This is the second of my posts focusing on the February 3rd airing of the CSI episode on “The Two Mrs. Grissoms” featuring several Deaf actors and actresses. I put up a post on my Facebook wall asking others what they thought about the February 3rd airing of the CSI crime drama episode which featured [...]
CSI – The Deaf Episode (first thoughts)
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Interpreting, Sign Language on Friday February 4 2011 | 8 Comments »
This is the first of a series of posts that I plan to do reflecting some of my thoughts and discussions in regards to the February 3rd showing of “The Two Mrs. Grissoms” on the crime drama CSI. I’m sure that this morning the “Deaf Grapevine” is all abuzz as folks share their thoughts on [...]
ASL Tree
Posted in Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Art & Literature, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Poetry/Prose, Sign Language, Women on Saturday January 15 2011 | 6 Comments »
In a previous post, I explained how my Word of the Year for 2011 is ROOTS. This will be an on-going theme in my blog this year, and I plan to create several posts through-out the year which revolve around this theme. Some of those posts will focus on connecting to my roots as a [...]
Making a Video? How About Captioning It?
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language, Universal Issues on Thursday January 13 2011 | 12 Comments »
With more and more people making videos, and/or posting them on Facebook and other social networking sites, we are confronted (again!) with the issue of Equal Communication Access – how can we in the Deaf Community enjoy such videos when they are not accessible? The answer of course lies in captioning such videos – adding visible [...]
An ASL Sign for Pagan
Posted in Archives #2 On Being Deaf and Pagan, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Paganism, Sign Language, Spirituality, Women, Women's Spirituality on Thursday October 21 2010 | 4 Comments »
Around this time of the year, the word “witch” starts creeping into our vocabulary more and more. Perhaps that explains why this blog’s Word Press stats indicate that two of the most popular search engine terms bringing people to Deaf Pagan Crossroads in the past few days have been 1) ASL sign for witch 2) [...]
Sign Language Interpreters – To Provide or Not to Provide?
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Empowerment, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Sign Language on Thursday September 16 2010 | 3 Comments »
Shortly after the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act in July of 2010, Ocean wrote a letter to the Editor of the Evansville Courier and Press, which was printed in the paper a few days later. As a result, she was asked to to write a series of articles about accessibility for the [...]
This Signing Is the (New) S#*t
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Archives #3 A Deaf Pagan Shares, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Music, Sign Language on Friday September 10 2010 | 15 Comments »
In this post Ocean shares her views on common perspectives about sign language, and its use…especially as an artistic form. Stroll down to the very end of this post to see a truly rocking video of an ASL interpretation of a song by Marilyn Manson! A little over three years ago, I put up a [...]
The Spiral Dance Providing ASL Interpreters
Posted in Archives #1 Deafness and Accessibility, Creating Accessibility, Deaf/Hearing Relations, Deaf/Pagan Relations, Deafness, Equal Communication Access, Interpreting, Magick, Paganism, Ritual, Sabbats, Sign Language, Spirituality, witchcraft, Women's Spirituality on Monday October 12 2009 | 18 Comments »
Back in the early eighties, when I was just beginning my journey down the Pagan Path, I bought my first book on Paganism. A book that changed my life profoundly back then, and continues to do so to this very day. That book was The Spiral Dance, written by the well-known Pagan leader and author, [...]
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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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