Comments for Deaf Pagan Crossroads

Comment on Interview With the Deaf Witch – Part III (Pagan Sign Language) by StudentLawl

StudentLawl — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:57:05 +0000

I think often students are searching for signs for things like pagan, witch, solstice etc, is because while learning we come across a plethora of Christian signs (my teacher taught me that ‘bless you’ like when someone sneezes was a cross across your chest, how.. uncomfortable.) Jewish signs, even Muslim signs; but nothing for Pagans. I asked my teacher in class about it and she was only able to offer a blank look. And full dictionaries online don’t offer much help either, thus looking for specific signs. (which btw, is how I found this site. Looking up “ASL pagan??”)
Even if i don’t use them in conversation, I’d like to at least know they exist, which they sort of don’t. =/

Comment on Caption This! by Kim

Kim — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:40:32 +0000

Well I did send a note to her with the link yesterday, as well as tweeted Switched At Birth’s official twitter (though I can’t say I have much hope for that, whoever runs the SAB twitter account leaves me scratching my head sometimes.)

Today, the blogger from Deaf Politics sent the info to Marlee, and I see that Marlee has tweeted it to her followers. Perhaps that will get the other cast members of Switched At Birth on board and sharing with their followers too. It would be nice to see Sean tweeting about it as well and bringing the awareness to his younger followers.

One of these days I gotta figure out how to plunk a video into a blog post like you have here. I’ve tried in the past & never got it to work.

Comment on Caption This! by ocean1025

ocean1025 — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:15:42 +0000

Chuckle – okay, Sis…I’ll call you Crys instead (wink).

I really don’t know if Marlee has gotten this or not, since I don’t twitter myself. However, I have seen it show up on the walls of a couple of my Facebook Deaf friends who live in California and are linked to Marlee, so I am going to guess she has received it. However, there’s nothing to stop you from mentioning it yourself. And I think sharing it with the Switched At Birth group would be good too.

Heck, I think sharing it with any and all is a good thing. The more we get it out there, the better.

I sent an email to the Bay Area Reclaiming Collective, and it’s been getting some good response and causing some positive discussion there. I’m hoping that this is the beginning of seeing something happening in the Pagan Community in regards to increasing understanding of and support for Equal Communication Access and accessibility in general.

Comment on Caption This! by Kim

Kim — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:07:47 +0000

Did a double-take. LOL Not used to you calling me Kim. Forgot I changed my display name to appear as that instead of Crystal since I added my Trek trips blog to wordpress. I wonder if anyone sent a link to this video to Marlee? She’s very active on twitter. Oh, which reminds me I can send it to the Switched At Birth official twitter too.

Comment on Caption This! by ocean1025

ocean1025 — Tue, 22 May 2012 04:06:12 +0000

Thank you, Kim. I hope that others will join us in this effort to educate, advocate, and encourage everyone to Caption This!

Comment on Caption This! by Kim

Kim — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:20:18 +0000

June 6th. Noted on my calendar. Will try to recruit some Truthies to help along with efforts to get #captionTHIS trending on twitter that day.