This is a student from Columbia in Chicago that I went to school with at Gallaudet. Often in ASL Lit class we ask, "can it be literature if a hearing person is signing it?". We struggle with this question as interpreters, wanting to including ourselves into the Deaf community, hoping to be accepted. I would call this ASL literature, simply because Noel uses ASL to express her "Cherish" story. She uses specific handshapes and classifiers to express the message throughout her poem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_7E3ai3QKo&feature=related
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
The Sweet & the Sour
Have you heard? My life is insane.
Sweet: I got to go to Chicago last weekend and see a good friend.
Sour: I couldn't afford it but did it anyway.
Sweet: I got to spend a full day in front of the tv watching some movies with Kate.
Sour: I didn't pack as a result of the tv, movie watching day and forgot my taxes, dads birthday gift and medicine in my apartment.
Sweet: I got to go home for the rest of the week!
Sour: My grandma and my mom live together..... ha, enough said.
Sweet: My mom, after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, spoke at an event 5 years ago and a woman who was affiliated with Harvest Food Bank heard her story and felt compelled to give my mom a free pass at any time to the food bank. This past weekend I told my mom how I was barely affording food at my apartment and she decided to take me to the food bank. I got so much free food! I felt so blessed that an opportunity and a resource so awesome was available to me and that it has provided for my mom throughout these years. We are truly blessed.
Sour: It was exhausting to be overwhelmed with so much great food (which is really not a bad thing at all...)
Sweet: David is coming home in one month!!
Sour: David is coming home in one month.... (ha, it seems so far away)
Sweet: I got to go to Chicago last weekend and see a good friend.
Sour: I couldn't afford it but did it anyway.
Sweet: I got to spend a full day in front of the tv watching some movies with Kate.
Sour: I didn't pack as a result of the tv, movie watching day and forgot my taxes, dads birthday gift and medicine in my apartment.
Sweet: I got to go home for the rest of the week!
Sour: My grandma and my mom live together..... ha, enough said.
Sweet: My mom, after she was diagnosed with breast cancer, spoke at an event 5 years ago and a woman who was affiliated with Harvest Food Bank heard her story and felt compelled to give my mom a free pass at any time to the food bank. This past weekend I told my mom how I was barely affording food at my apartment and she decided to take me to the food bank. I got so much free food! I felt so blessed that an opportunity and a resource so awesome was available to me and that it has provided for my mom throughout these years. We are truly blessed.
Sour: It was exhausting to be overwhelmed with so much great food (which is really not a bad thing at all...)
Sweet: David is coming home in one month!!
Sour: David is coming home in one month.... (ha, it seems so far away)
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