What becomes of the broken hearted?
In the summer of 1966, the singer Jimmy Ruffin had his only real success with the song What becomes of the broken hearted. The song wasn’t originally written for Ruffin but when … Continue reading
Deafhood pedagogies, and a Deaf space revolution
Paddy Ladd is in the States at the moment and spoke on Monday at CSD Fremont. Yesterday, via a friend on Facebook (thanks Don) shared the PowerPoint slides of his … Continue reading
Deaf-led research… a (very small, somewhat apologetic) starting point?
Yesterday evening, I posted a comment on Heriot Watt’s life in LINCS blog… the subject was Deaf-led research. The original post, and other comments are well worth reading, and cover the … Continue reading
SL Legislation is not (yet) empowerment
There’s a post today in the Limping Chicken about New Zealand Sign Language. I remember being in NZ in 2006, before the NZSL Act was passed. I actually gave a lecture on … Continue reading
GREEN > BLUE > ORANGE (this one’s about Deaf space)
Following my initial post on the Deaflympics, I went home with something nagging at the back of my mind. I felt like I’d written a reasonable post, that should have … Continue reading
Deaf unity – a (rather historical) response to Lizzie Ward
I started writing this as a comment and response to comments on Lizzie Ward’s article at Limping Chicken, but it got a bit long, and a bit involved, so I … Continue reading
The politics of Deaf history – archives
Wednesday, taking advantage of a trip to London, I found myself in the UCL Ear Institute and Action on Hearing Loss archives. It struck me sitting there, that although I’ve … Continue reading
Early Day Motion – reworded
Re: http://limpingchicken.com/2013/03/19/deaf-news-31-mps-back-bsl-campaign/ Motivated by the Limping Chicken news that “31 MPs from the major parties have called on the government to do more to support BSL users across public services”, and in … Continue reading
BSL ‘recognition’ – ten years on
(Image, from http://www.grumpyoldeafies.com/2008/03/the_5th_anniversary_of_apathy.html, a post worth reading in its own right) So, yesterday was the tenth anniversary of the recognition of BSL by the UK government, of the provision of … Continue reading
Deafscape, and early Deaf Geographies articles
By happy chance, in looking for material for another presentation, I dug out the original Deafscape articles that I wrote in 2005, and an introduction to Deaf Geographies from (about) … Continue reading
MIKE GULLIVER 