Aro

Kujichagulia(Self-Determination)

Self-Determination

Sources: National Black Deaf Advocates, SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Self-Determination in American Sign Language. Thumb of hand in A handshape taps chest, then both hands in F handshape palms down at waist height move down firmly. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent black, red, and green in different stages of the sign. Background is white.

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Disability

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Disability in American Sign Language. Handshapes D and A with the pattern of the disability pride flag: green, blue, white, yellow, and red diagonal stripes over a dark grey background.

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The faded black background represents "the anger and mourning over the eugenics and the neglect that disabled people have to fight against."

Red represents physical disabilities.

Gold is for neurodiversity.

White represents invisible disabilities and disabilities that haven't yet been diagnosed.

Blue stands for emotional and psychiatric disabilities, including mental illness, anxiety, and depression.

Green is for sensory disabilities, including deafness, blindness, lack of smell, lack of taste, audio processing disorder, and all other sensory disabilities.

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I forgot to post yesterday but DPAN.TV had an interpreter team for the debate. You can still watch it.

[Transcript from DailyMoth.com:

Do you plan to watch the presidential debate on Tuesday night? Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris? DPAN announced that it would provide ASL interpreters, specifically Deaf interpreters, for the debate. You have to go to the website DPAN.tv. They will stream the debate from ABC News and add interpreters. It is a really nice way to experience the debate because whenever I watched debates with just captioning, it didn’t really show interruptions or crosstalk. The captions can’t keep up. But with interpreters, you can see both candidates talking at the same time, and any interruptions from the moderator. You can feel the tone, the drama, or the flow. Nice! So are you ready for tomorrow (Tuesday) night? 9 pm EST. Go to DPAN.tv. Thank you to DPAN for providing ASL access.

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Ujima(Collective Work and Responsibility)

Collective Work and Responsibility

Sources: National Black Deaf Advocates

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The sign for Collective Work and Responsibility in American Sign Language.

Collective is signed with both hands linked in F handshape. Hands pull each other in a circle parallel to the ground in front of the signer. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent black in different stages of the sign.

Work is signed with both hands in the S handshape. Heal of dominant hand taps 2-3 times on thumb side of base hand. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent red in different stages of the sign.

Responsibility is signed with both hands in bent, open B handshape tapping dominant side shoulder 2-3 times with fingertips. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green in different stages of the sign.

Space between Work and Responsibility implies the body shift version of And in ASL. Background is white.

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Potato

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Potato in American Sign Language. Bent V handshape taps twice on the back of base hand, which is in the S handshape, palm down. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink. Background is transparent.

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Take a Break

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Break in American Sign Language. Both hands in 5 handshape. Dominant hand palm down. Base hand palm towards signer. Dominant hand taps the space between the fingers on base hand. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green and blue in different stages of the sign.

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Bat

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

[Image ID: Bat in American Sign Language. Both hands with wrists crossed over signers chest flick out into the 1 handshape. Hands are purple with black nails. End ID]

Tickets

I'm really looking forward to this! Interpreted performance just aren't the same (though I still appreciate it. Don't stop).

[Image ID: Poster for Deaf Austin Theatre's Short Play Festival. Art is of an alley at night. The plays, which are available to stream through stellar Novels 8th through 16th, are:

Days Between Us written by Heba Toulan,

Dumpster Diving written by Rob Roth and Joshua Castile,

Matchmaker written by Beth Louise Johnson,

The Deaf Table written by Garrett Zuercher, and

Wands Have More Fun by Allison Fradkin.

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I went to a production of The Last Five Years where they incorporated ASL and it was absolutely Beautiful! The play is full of parallels and opposites and the way they did it built upon that.

In The Last Five Years you see a 5 year relationship between a man and a woman. From the man's perspective, you see their relationship from falling in love to the end of their relationship, but you see the women's perspective in reverse: from divorce to first date.

The actress for the woman was deaf and used ASL. An "inner voice" sang her parts from a platform in the back. The actor who played the man sang his parts and an interpreter, his "inner voice" translated from the platform. Except during the wedding scene the actor signed his vows as he sang

My favorite songs were, in order, Still Hurting(absolutely devastating in ASL), The Schmuel Song, and The Next Ten Minutes

It was amazing. I cried

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Program for The Last Five Years. The top is white and has line art of two hands in the C handshape. It resembles the end of the sign without from above. The bottom is black and has line art of two hands in the F handshape touching in the sign for connection. They are separated by line art colored in with read of two hads reaching out, the left one with the palm down, the right one with palm up.

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Written & Composed by Jason Robert Brown. Deaf Austin Theatre & Ground Theatre present: The Last Five Years

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Hello and welcome to my dumbass opinions. Every musical should be translated into ASL, however there are a few that I have come across that I think it would be especially fun and cool. Here's those

Six-No plot changes here, I just think ASL would look really cool and beautiful worked into the chorography

Beetlejuice-What i was thinking is that Lydias mom could sign but her dad cannot. In the later parts of the show Beetlejuice could act as her voice maybe? Very rough ideas but I think it would be so cool

Hades Town- Oh my gosh this one would just be so pretty, I think most of the characters would function as two(sign and voice) excluding Hades, Hermes and the Fates.(they would talk/sing while signing) The ensemble would be mixed using people signing and people singing together. Ithink it would be so pretty and I want it

That's all the ones I have really thought about. Please keep in mind that I am just learning ASL and I am by no means an expert. Do you guys have any ideas?

People are trying to bring back 1880s-era anti-ASL sentiment. Worst timeline.