Notices by Meredith (meredith@queer.party)

Just set my display theme to Windows 95. This is going to be fun for at LEAST six minutes!

Edit: Okay, I only lasted about three minutes.

Webinar on the Indigenous Deaf American experience, watch live or look for the recording later: https://www.nad.org/webinar-indigenous-deaf-community/

Fellow white people: Why on earth would you think racism isn't a problem on the Fediverse? It's a problem EVERYWHERE. Literally everywhere.

@Rachel_Thorn Ah! That explains why I don't see it as much. Despite the sign (which is the same in ASL) most culturally deaf folks have gotten away from "mute" in spoken/written language.

Except, somehow, hearing researchers in India. Every time a journal article shows up about "deaf-mutes" we all collectively roll our eyes and complain to the publisher (usually SpringerLink).

@Rachel_Thorn I am used to seeing ろう者 rather than ろうあ者 - is this a regional difference? (I lived in Tokyo so that's what I've picked up mostly.)

@Rachel_Thorn

Tell me you would still colonize other countries if it wasn't gauche without telling me you would still colonize other countries if it wasn't gauche.

https://inews.co.uk/news/british-museum-chair-george-osborne-suggesting-objects-could-be-loaned-back-1955216

@Rachel_Thorn My friends have posted some great photos to Facebook! We had totality at about 4-6am, I think.

@Rachel_Thorn Washington DC!

@Rachel_Thorn People around me were able to, but I was sleeping. Oops.

If you have been on the Fediverse for less than a week and you're following over 500 people, I'm probably not going to accept your follow request right now. You're in a following frenzy, and I don't want to be part of that.

Settle in, curate your network a bit. You'll run across me again. Ask again then. :heart_pride:

Please consider, in addition to your image descriptions, indicating whether videos you share are captioned. It can be either [cc] or [auto cc] or something similar. Thank you! ??

This research is painful. The #HIV #AIDS epidemic is generational trauma for an #Xennial #queer like me. But the #deaf community suffered greatly during the AIDS crisis, and this work is important. It's just going to take time. #histodon