I was supposed to make this journal for my ASL structure class and type up all of my notes from the semester
60 pages of notes (fuck that)
so
i condensed into six pages of notes
and four pages of required stuff
because i missed about 20% of the class
and we only covered about 8 topics
and i left out two topics because boring
and by left out i mean i neglected to type them up
and because i can fail the journal and the final and still get an 85% in this class
SOMEHOW
i’m on the border B+/A- in all of my classes
I wonder how many people that I don’t talk to still have my number
I tend to break my phones on the regular so I only have the numbers of people I talk to somewhat often or at least recently
My name is usually one of the first in most contact lists (ADrian) and I get pocket dialed often
or habitually called by people whose numbers I don’t have and they don’t say anything
……
but yeah
(909) 455 and (909) 215 and (909) 374 and (909) 393
who the fuck are these people
—
i’ve had the same number for like 9 years
![thatdeafchick:
ewitty:
jannelleisstillalive:
thedailywhat:
Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.
“She didn’t know a specific person to write to here at Marvel, and even figured it might get caught in our spam filters, but she sent it in anyway, because that’s the kind of great parent Christina is,” said Marvel editor Bill Rosemann. “And it was her inspiring effort to help her son that touched so many of us here. As a fellow parent of a toddler, I can understand where she’s coming from, so I forwarded the email around the rest of Editorial, asking what we could do to help, and like when Cap yells, ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the gang leapt into action.”
Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”
Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.
DON’T miss the video. It’s the best thing you’ll see all day.
[death+taxes / robot6]
This is a very sweet story, but I have some thoughts.
The emphasis here is on the way in which these comics have encouraged him to utilize his hearing aid- and not about something much deeper, about how deaf children yearn for role models. It makes me sad, and not because without his hearing aid he is somehow deprived (which is the sentiment I get from this news story). It makes me sad because audism/phonocentrism are so hegemonic in our society that a little boy believes that he can’t be a hero with a hearing aid.
I hate this sentence: “His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.” First, “hearing impaired” is an offensive term. Second, the trope of “overcoming” is damaging and has been heavily covered in disability studies as reductive and oppressive. And third, what “limitations”? I like that superheroes, generally, are different from larger society- often that which makes them different makes them a hero [ here’s an example of ten that I read about recently: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/76853 ]. Instead of emphasizing THAT message for these children- instead of teaching them that difference is good or powerful and valuable to society, this boy was left staring at drawings of costumed men and feeling like he could never be like them.
Don’t get me wrong. Its beautiful what this mother did for her son. Its great how Marvel created a hero that could be a role model for this boy. But for me, the story reveals a larger problem in how people view deaf children/people and how deaf children/people view themselves.
Well articulated counter argument.
THIS. EVERYTHING. THIS. ^^](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jd3cjjOf1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.
“She didn’t know a specific person to write to here at Marvel, and even figured it might get caught in our spam filters, but she sent it in anyway, because that’s the kind of great parent Christina is,” said Marvel editor Bill Rosemann. “And it was her inspiring effort to help her son that touched so many of us here. As a fellow parent of a toddler, I can understand where she’s coming from, so I forwarded the email around the rest of Editorial, asking what we could do to help, and like when Cap yells, ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the gang leapt into action.”
Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”
Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.
DON’T miss the video. It’s the best thing you’ll see all day.
[death+taxes / robot6]
This is a very sweet story, but I have some thoughts.
The emphasis here is on the way in which these comics have encouraged him to utilize his hearing aid- and not about something much deeper, about how deaf children yearn for role models. It makes me sad, and not because without his hearing aid he is somehow deprived (which is the sentiment I get from this news story). It makes me sad because audism/phonocentrism are so hegemonic in our society that a little boy believes that he can’t be a hero with a hearing aid.
I hate this sentence: “His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.” First, “hearing impaired” is an offensive term. Second, the trope of “overcoming” is damaging and has been heavily covered in disability studies as reductive and oppressive. And third, what “limitations”? I like that superheroes, generally, are different from larger society- often that which makes them different makes them a hero [ here’s an example of ten that I read about recently: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/76853 ]. Instead of emphasizing THAT message for these children- instead of teaching them that difference is good or powerful and valuable to society, this boy was left staring at drawings of costumed men and feeling like he could never be like them.
Don’t get me wrong. Its beautiful what this mother did for her son. Its great how Marvel created a hero that could be a role model for this boy. But for me, the story reveals a larger problem in how people view deaf children/people and how deaf children/people view themselves.
Well articulated counter argument.
THIS. EVERYTHING. THIS. ^^
Robert Mickelsen: Heart And Soul (2012)
Lampworked borosilicate glass, sculpted, blown, sandblasted
omg my god/goddess!!!!! i want this! I would even start smoking weed if I had this! it’s beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG its the most beautiful bong i have ever seen!
oh my god
