Sign language in Sia's videos

Sia, an Australian pop singer perhaps best known for her song "Breathe Me" which played during the closing sequence of the Six Fe...

Deaf Karaoke with David Armand

Direct link to YouTube video here . This is a live performance of the song "Torn" by comedian David Armand of The Hollow Men wit...

Friday music: Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie is a talented percussionist who is also profoundly deaf. As she explains , media attention that focuses on the state of her h...

Digital revolution excludes closed captioning

Article here . Excerpt: In the rush to create new products and make television programming available anytime, anywhere, the need for closed ...

Race as disability

Back in March the story of the Andrews family of Long Island came to public attention. The NY Daily News announced " What a mess, bab...

The Case against Perfection

A new book by Michael J. Sandel, called The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering , explores the moral issues cr...

A life sentence in prison for Daphne Wright

I wrote about the Wright murder trial here and here , but I'm going to defer to the Deaf bloggers that have been covering this case so ...

Daphne Wright found guilty of murder; death penalty decision yet to come

I recently wrote about Daphne Wright , the Deaf black lesbian charged with a brutal murder in South Dakota. This week the jury found her gui...

Texas guidelines for interpreters for the deaf

This 59-step guide on how to provide interpretaton for deaf defendants in the Texas court system came across on a listserv I observe. The fu...

Can a deaf black lesbian charged with murder get a fair trial?

Does your answer change if you learn the trial is in South Dakota? How about if she's up for the death penalty? From the March 6 article...

Through Deaf Eyes on PBS

From Florentine Films : Through Deaf Eyes is a two-hour PBS documentary that explores almost 200 years of American history: the experienc...

Slumgullionish miscellanea (#24)

William Peace's "Protest from a bad cripple: The Ashley Treatment and the making of a pillow angel" in CounterPunch : Doctors...

Blind Rage and the legacy of Helen Keller

It wasn't until I began reading Georgina Kleege's Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Heller that I realized my own ambivalence to the dea...

Book meme

I've been tagged by IrrationalPoint for this book meme, which will offer a little taste of the book review I'm currently working on...

Tasered, trampled and beaten for being disabled

These are three recent stories, one from Pontiac Michigan, one from Gaza, and one from St. Paul, Minnesota: "Arrested for epilespy...

Saturday Slumgullion #20

Three Guardian articles from the last two weeks -- 1) Identity crisis: Is the disability movement headed in the wrong direction? 2) Disab...