(Im Afraid To Talk To People Online So Im Using Anon HOWEVER)

Swim

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Swim in American Sign Language. Both hands in bent B handshape start in fron together the move to either side and back. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green and blue in different stages of the sign.

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Fireworks

Sources: SigningSavvy, ASLDeafined

[Fireworks in American Sign Language. Hands crossed in S handshape separate as they move up and open to 5 handshape. Movement is repeated three times as body rotates from left to right. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green, blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign.

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Did you have any specific symbol or words you wanted?

Language Priority has a few pins

DEAR ARTISTS OF TUMBLR!!!!!!!!

I need your help. YES YOUR HELP! Im person with hearing aids and i wanted to make myself a pin to my bag so people know who they are talkin to (its hard to notice my hearing aids because of my hair) but i was browsing Pinterest and THERES NOTHING INTERESTING. WHERES THE SWAG, WHERES THE FIRE. So if yall have some designs/photoshop then HAND IT OVER SO I CAN HAVE COOL BAG PLS

I made it spacey

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The previous graphic, star in ASL, but with a starry pattern

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Star

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Star in American Sign Language. Both hands in 1 handshape with palms facing away from signer point up and rub sides of index fingers. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign. Background is transparent.

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Free Support Group For Deaf Survivors Of California Wildfires

From the Deaf Counseling Center on Facebook:

If you are a Deaf California resident who is directly affected by the California wildfires, we are offering free support groups with our licensed Deaf therapist, Michele Barber.

Please reach out to us to join the group.

Our hearts go out to everyone who is in the path of the fires and nearby. We are seeing the news and listening to your stories. It is sad, scary, upsetting, and a whole bunch of emotions tangled up at once.

If you want to make a donation to help Deaf people get services, please feel free to do so using this link — https://deafcounseling.com/make-payment/

#californiafires#californiafires2025

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Disclaimer: You may want to consider diagnosis and treatment of your symptoms with a licensed professional counselor. This page is not intended to replace therapy.

NOTE: We use the word “Deaf” as an inclusive term for all Deaf, hard of hearing, DeafBlind, DeafPlus, late-deafened, oral Deaf, ASL users, CI users, and other identities.

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Why’d you decide to be an interpreter?

(Also, hai! I saw you followed me :D)

Hi👋

I love signing, but also, I have experience with disability from both sides (chronic pain and working in assisted living). To me, serving a community you identify with just hits different. I know many Deaf people don't identify as disabled and I've never really been deaf, but I think there are a lot of parallels between my experiences facing inaccessibility as well as the pride and assumptions that come with being trans and the experience of many Deaf people I've met.

I'm also immersed in the Deaf community. Like I said earlier, it's important to me to be a part of the community I serve, but that's not the reason I interact with the Deaf community. I genuinely prefer socializing in ASL. People used to think I was an introvert, but now I go to social events at least weekly and often multiple times a week because I go to every Deaf event open to hearing people. So really it's more because I'm a hearing person in the community that I want to be an interpreter than the other way around.

art niche spotlight - De'VIA!!

De'VIA art, standing for "Deaf View/Image Art," is a form of expressive visual art created by Deaf artists!!!

The term was coined in 1989 by nine Deaf artists (Miller [painter], Johnston [sculptor], Sonnenstrahl [art historian], Baird [painter], Wonder [sculptor], Wilhite [painter], Vasnick [fiber artist], Creighton [fiber artist], Lai-Yok Ho [video artist]) collaborating to create expressive artwork to unveil at the Deaf Way Festival and a word to accurately describe their artworks in relation to their deafness. These artists created a mural (below) acting as part of their signatures, serving as the first official artwork made under the De'VIA title.

(Patti Durr, HandEyes)

De'VIA follows a basic criteria of 4 elements:

Deaf/Deaf-Blind expression of affirmation, resistance, and/or liberation

View of the Deaf/Deaf-Blind experience in the world

Imagery/motifs/symbols of the Deaf Experience

Art, Activism, Aesthetics, and Authentic Expressions of the Deaf Experience

(Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture)

It can be identified through expression of the Deaf Experience or any variety of it, rather than by the deafness of the artist; in other words, all artwork created to communicate the Deaf Experience in any way is De'VIA, but not all artwork created by Deaf artists is. It can also be identified by Deaf artists' general tendencies to use bold colors with contrasting values, varied texturing, and exaggerated features in relation to hands and faces!!

(DeafArt.org)

some key De'ViA artworks by key Deaf artists!!

(i preface this with a slight body horror cw)

Bell School, Betty G. Miller

Ameslan Prohibited, Betty G. Miller

(part of the first show focused exclusively on art with Deaf Themes, 1972)

Family Dog, Susan Dupor

Art No. 2, Chuck Baird

(De'VIA exhibited at the 3rd and 4th Deaf Studies Conferences, 1993-1999)

Poetic Hand, Paul Johnston

(part of the first national touring exhibit on Deaf Culture Art, 1999)

(artwork timeline and events courtesy of DeafArt.org)

Have you done "frog?" If not, can you please? Thank you!

Thanks for the suggestion! I hop you like it

Frog

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Frog in American Sign Language. Hand in a mini O hand shape that only uses the thumb, index, and middle finger rests the back of the hand under the chin, palm facing down. Mini O flicks out into U handshape twice. Movement is illustrated by hands that are translucent green and blue-green in different stages of the sign. Frog face is green.

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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.

There is a qr code in the bottom right corner to get virtual tickets. End ID]

Trans Signs 101 | Trans Awareness Week

Happy Trans Awareness Week!!!