Attention and Intention: Contextual Consequences and Cultural Confusion in...
Let’s agree on one thing: Deaf West’s excellent Broadway revival of “Spring Awakening” is a fine production currently showing at the Brooks Atkinson theatre in a limited run. The sets and lights are...
View ArticleThe Shape of Water: Guillermo del Toro and the Failure to Consecrate
Guillermo del Toro’s new movie — The Shape of Water — is a high-minded movie that looks great, sounds good, but ultimately fails to consecrate the point of the story: Communication Creates Love. There...
View ArticleASL and the Deaf Culture Appropriation of Apple Fitness+
I have been a big fan of Apple Fitness+. However, after completing the workouts for a several months now, I have come to the uncomfortable conclusion that Apple’s misuse of Deaf Culture — in...
View ArticleWill The Metropolitan Opera Allow the Deaf to Sing?
[UPDATE: September 12, 2023; our ASL Opera Project website is now live! Join us there for new videos, translation updates, and for consultation concerning the right interpretation of Opera in American...
View ArticleLearning Italian Lifetime Immersion Style
For the past 60 days, I have been intensively studying the Italian language. I want to learn Italian in order to better serve our ASL Opera project since 50% of the most popular operas were written in...
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