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ASSASSINATING ALISON BRYAN - The Foaming Jaws Of The Poison People: The Sequel To The Prequel.

I was just ruminating on my previous post, ASSASSINATING ALISON BRYAN - The Foaming Jaws Of The Poison People: The Prequel, after writing, DEFINITION: Poison Person/ People.The memories of Deaf UK [even though it seems like so long ago, since I've participated in email lists and forums, preferring blogs and blogging] are still vivid. The memories are kept buoyant by the incessant warblings of MM, Andy, John Savva, and a scrag of other trolls, suffering delusions of

Of course, to the, uninitiated, the Deaf Community appears as an unruly mob. I thought that at first, until I learnt to apply the principle of human nature to them. They are human, just like hearies. They do things, just like hearies. Repeat that mantra, and you too will overcome your fear of Deafies, and the stereotypical depiction of them as a wild and unruly mob, will dissolve into a sweet mama loves you all, let me take you into my bosom embrace.

This vibrancy is reflected in cyberspace, take your pick

• “Hello darling, last night at the Catacomb was ace!”
• “Hey Jeff, Titter! Titter!”
• “Can anybody here help me with my thesis? I’m studying the effects of hearing people on deaf people during the Black plague. Was anybody alive then? Any help would be appreciated.”

I tend to avoid the ones that are devoid of any intellectual depth, or that harp on incessantly how about nothing in particular. I could forgive you for thinking that the Deaf Community in real life and in cyberspace, is like the Wild, Wild West, because its untamed nature manifests itself via scams, flame baits and trolls “reinforce”, that the civilised people, i.e. the hearies and hearie wannabes use to justify their image of Deaf people as an unruly mob.

How often have you read or heard about parents who were put off by this perception, and used this as a basis for deciding to raise their dead [I'm using the hearing spelling of deaf hear] children using aural means? How many times have you encountered snotty oralies, who are so fixated by their perception of hearing as being unlimited possibilities, that they use any opportunity to debate the relative merits of visual vs aural, by putting down the visual?

Sure, the Deaf Community has its share of errant people. What community doesn’t? Do the snot nosed oralies really think they have one up on us, because they think they are so civilised? Do the hearies that are quick to condemn Deafies for wanting to propagate their culture and population, ever reflect on their own actions?

“As GOD intended, but we are only making a few tweaks. To improve his creation. Honest!”

Unfairly, the entire Deaf Community is judged by the errant behaviour of a few scurrilous characters, just as unfairly the entire Hearing Community is judged by the scurrilous behaviour of its majority. The irony, is that they would be the first to howl and bawl should we judge them all by the same clothes.

Stupid is as Stupid does.

Anyway, my concern today is not with the relative merits of either communities relative moral standing, and relative is the operative word, but with the character assassination of my good friend, G.O.D., aka Alison Bryan. She has been everybody’s punching bag, and subjected to some serious character assassination for quite some time now.

Anybody who rises up to defend or support her, gets caught in the cross fire. They get a hefty does of the same medicine for daring to challenge the trolls received wisdom, that Alison Byran is a meddlesome wench! In fact, as some of you may already know, there are a few of us who inspire this Pavlovian response by mere association. In fact, Alison’s detractors, should all band together and form a business in manufacturing foam, considering the copious amounts that are generated everytime one of us make sense.

If you have read my previous post, ASSASSINATING ALISON BRYAN - The Foaming Jaws Of The Poison People: The Prequel,you will be aware there is a history behind all this, and to make you better, appreciate the absurdity of the tale, which I’m about to tell you,make sure you read that post.

It is seriously becoming quite ridiculous, when Little Lord Fauntleroy, spat the proverbial dummy early last week, because he couldn’t face up to a few issues and decided to, use his former friend Alison Bryan as a punching bag to vent his frustrations. He has done this previously. Compounding the situation, is Lord Fauntleroy’s sidekick, Sexy Betty, who has also worked herself up in a lather over some misconceptions about Alison.

This culminated in some aggressive approaches by Betty and Lord Fauntleroy towards Alison at a recent debate about the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, in Cardiff, Wales, [UK for the geographically challenged]. Though to give Sexy Betty some credit, apparently, she showed some remarkable restraint in not hitting Alison Bryan with her handbag.

Now Lord Fauntleroy and Betty were there in a professional capacity, and their unprofessional actions have just alienated them from many of us.

This whole sorry situation developed from an incident when Lord Fauntleroy was caught deleting the
membership of another group that Alison had created, and worked hard to
build the membership and activity. Since then, Alison, along with Moi, Joe, and others, have long since been banned from Deaf UK. My crime is for calling him, a dickhead. A fairly innocuous term in Australia. Joe’s crime was for being so impertinent as to stand up to Lord Fauntleroy. Alison’s crime was for copying her own posts to Deaf UK, for her own posterity. Others have since being banned for disagreeing or standing up to the moderator.

There is more going on behind the scenes, which I will not divulge, but writing these posts, have invoked memories of my past experiences in committees. I’m left begging the question, “Why is this errant behaviour from D/deaf people tolerated?”

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ASSASSINATING ALISON BRYAN - The Foaming Jaws Of The Poison People: The Prequel

In its day, Deaf UK was the best email list I’ve been a member of. It began life as a social contact list on e-groups, in the days before it became a yahoo group. The ease of posting sharing news, gossip and events made Deaf UK a popular list, and as a consequence its membership grew. So much so, that many established Deaf organisations. saw it as a marketing contact.

Deaf UK was originally set up by John Savva [do your own research to find out all about him, and I have had a couple of run ins with him - smirk!] whose moderating style was, “Me Tarzan, You Jane!” or in Deaf parlance, “Tarzan Me, Jane You!”. I was roped into joining by Alison Bryan, whom you all know as G.O.D., and then the fun began.

John Savva overcome with laziness, co-opted Alison into co-moderating, which in practice, became moderating. And, John would only show his head [or beat his chest] when things got hectic, he had something important to say, or Alison chucked a spaz, and demanded that he put in his share of the moderators duties.

But having Alison as moderator, was the best thing that happened to Deaf UK. Unlike many moderators [and leaders] whose moderating style is off the status illustrating style, that is, “I’m the boss, hear me roar!”, or the nannying style, “Don’t say anything nasty here. Let’s keep it civilised kids!”, Alison’s style was very much the hands off and let the group set the pace. She stepped in only when the situation demanded it, or when the membership demanded it.

The freedom that Alison allowed the group, is what gave Deaf UK it’s character. Untamed and unruly. Which was very unique in a cyber culture that was trying to be ordered, disciplined and boring. Anything went. And when I say anything went, believe me anything went.

It was expected that many people would be put off by the style and manner of Deaf UK, and they couldn’t deal with the warts and all nature of the group, so they left. People joined expecting yet another deaf and hearing support group [for ****'S SAKE there's enuff out of them out there], or they expected everyone to sit around in a circle, holding hands, singing “Kumbayah, My Lord. Kumbayah!”

Lord, we weren’t allowed to be human by some well meaning folks.

What was amazing, was that some of the most obtuse and up their arses people join, and over time began to actually see through all that bluff and bluster and grew to take it all in stride. [Cue: My Name Sake Tony R., whom I use to bait with glee, and watch as he bit. Bit, HARD! But through it all, he came to see right through me and me in turn began to appreciate and allow him his space. And that is summat that was achieved in a heated environment].

Some came in with the intent of changing the group into a light and love and let’s not say anything nasty, there’s too much out there alright, smarmy new aged, laid back, Californian style [man all this baadddddddddddd energy just vibes me out], and that didn’t work. They got told to piss off!

Deaf UK, was a reminder of how you don’t always learn to respect by biting your tongue and saying nowt. You can learn to respect by accepting the style and personality. Just like the Seven Dwarves, “Off to work we go! Off to work we go!”

Then one day, a cyber citizen came a-roaming over the hill. Who, having eyed the shenanigans with some considerable envy, decided to join Deaf UK. Right away he began to offer his opinions, and all was well with the world. Except for one small, wee problem…. when you engaged in a debate or argument with him, it became circular. So when you responded to a post of his, he would respond to you by going off on a tangent. This would have been OK, if he eventually got back to the point, but he never did. It just got worse, that began to look like he was purely trolling. It’s pointless quoting him, when you can read his blog or contributions at the Tower Of Babble!

Things got into such a state, that a poll was instituted for the membership to decide whether he should be expelled from Deaf UK, or allowed to remain as a member. He was unceremoniously kicked out, and he never got over it. You can argue the toss if you wish, that we could have just ignored him and gone on our merry way, but we didn’t. He was followed by a few members, namely his mate Andy, who quit in disgust at Deaf UK and in support of MM. As a direct consequence, Alison was branded a dictator and control freak, for carrying out a group derived consensual act.

Give it time, and you would think that things would calm down, people would pick themselves up and dust themselves off? But no.

We had forgotten all about MM and his band of Merry Men, until I was alerted to a strand in the RNID forums [now closed due to the libelous nature of some of the postings, of which I have kept copies] bagging Deaf UK and Signing Deaf in general, and libeling Alison Bryan. The slagging got so bad, it was defamatory [Like I said, I have saved copies of the pages], that Alison wrote asking that the offending posts be removed, and NOT TO HAVE THE FORUMS CLOSED. That was an RNID decision.

The gnashing and wailing continued unabated. It had moved to a new forum, under the guise of free speech and democracy. But a cautionary note, I have met Alison, and know her from my time in the UK. Whereas MM, and cohorts only know her [and me] from cyber space.

MM and his fan club, went on to set up their own forum called Deaf Tribes, which I dubbed daft tribes, the land of the scum bags, and in there [without much help from us] they became defamatory again. They just could not let the original issue go. Whihc was MM being banned form Deaf UK.

Quite frankly, if they are not moaning on RNID, they are moaning at the Tower Of Babble and MM, started using various blogs [creating and deleting with such regularity, that blogging became a by word for laxative], to attack Deaf-Blogs [drawing parallels between Deaf UK and Alison's moderation of it, various factional warfares and other paranoid delusions, and then reframing it all to make himself look like the victim] and by extension Alison Bryan, and me because I put my literacy skills to good use when I call the kettle black.

Look [hands out in supplication], I know I [indeed, we] could have been more adult in my [our] responses to him, but he craves attention, so I just give it to him. In spades. Coloured blue. Brits have a thing about swearing, but I enjoy swearing. I’m an Aussie for God’s Sake! It’s an art form Down Unda.

Imagine using AVT [Averting Verbal Teaching] to teach a deafie how to swear! Now that would be an oral program well worth participating in.

Anyway, my friends, this was the beginning of what has turned out to be one continual moan from the poison people [which I will explain in the next post], and a continual source of stress for my friend Alison Bryan. Before I go, I should point out, that the target of MM and his cohort Andy’s derision has expanded to include Joe, Fin, TB, Me….[actually I have always been a prime target of their "insert your favourite adjective here"].

It must be said though, that this all began back in 2002! An awful long time to carry a grudge against someone whom you’ve never met, and only know them as binary code or text on a web page!

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Empathy Isn’t Always A Natural Instinct When One Is The “Default”: Part 2

I have been thinking about my last post,Empathy Isn’t Always A Natural Instinct When One Is The “Default”,and Paula Rosenthal’s comments.

Sure I’m not a parent, but as a Deaf, Deaf not deaf, I am quite qualified to comment on decisions that hearing parents make for their deaf/ hearing kids. After all, I know the deaf/ hearing experience better than any hearing person! While I agree with Paula, that being a parent gives you a different perspective, but at the end of the day, the decisions made tend to favour the Holy Grail that is the Hearing world.

I’m beginning to wonder how fragile the sense of self exhibited on many of the blogs extolling the virtues of lipreading, hearing aids, the cochlear implants, hearing birds sing, the new decibels that come online, and gazing in admiration at the sound a dog makes as it wees against the tree. I’m beginning to wonder their sense of self is so fragile, that without the aids of technology, will the deaf person crumble!?

I remember vividly the moment my whole came crashing down, when I realised that the hearing aids were not the manna from heaven that are advertised [only today I was in my audiologists office today waiting for some hearing aids repairs and tweak, looking at the various leaflets. They continue to promote the lie. The promise of a normal life, all predicated on a electronic gadget]. Yes, to this day, I have this relationship with the hearing world, that is rather fragile, because of that one incident.

Paula asked what I meant, and whom I was referring to, by the question, “WHY do people continue to labour under the assumption that all people with a hearing impairment are alike [the same]?” In the ongoing debate about Deaf and deaf, there are people who insist that we are all the same whether we sign or not. I say, NOT! Especially where deaf people choose not to sign, they are choosing a different path. We not anymore united by the fact of our shared hearing impairment than people of colour [choose two countries] are united by the colour of the skin.

That’s why I ask the question, why all the enthusiasm for technology as a means to solve the problem of deafness/ hearing impairment. I’m not against interacting or having relations [in the biblical sense as well] with the hearing world. I’m not against the use of technology. I’m just against the use of technology that is used to placed the ultimate burden back on deaf people. The use of technology and speech inducing communication methods, to obviate the need for an alternative way of being for deaf people. I embrace diversity, for without we would shrivel up and die. A Deaf world without Hearing input, would be like a world without Gay people. Who would cut your hair, decorate your houses, and entertain your husbands when you [the wife] is out with the girls?

My post Empathy Isn’t Always A Natural Instinct When One Is The “Default”, asked more questions than Paula responded to. I didn’t expect anyone would reply to them all. Lord knows it’s hard enough to try to formulate your thinking and clarify what it is you are trying to say. It is a rant that is expressing a frustration and extreme dissatisfaction with how fragmented we really are. Still, resources are, nay effort is, being put into trying to integrate deaf people into the hearing world, rather than building a world where all deaf are bounded by common by language, that is sign language.

In the final analysis, my questions WHY, have more to do with why are we being herded onto a particular road replete with technology and communication methods galore, which in turn is used to build up their esteem and self esteem. Think about this, if all deafies could sign, we could have a bigger subculture to the mainstream, that would be our baseline from which to grow as people. All the rest, the technology, additional communication skills, are adjuncts tot he bigger experience of being Deaf.

As Moi wrote in Deaf People are Whole, Organic, and Natural

I get so frustrated when people talk about how important hearing is and how important it is to fit into the hearing world. Yes, all of us minority groups need to know how to function in the majority. Granted. That’s a given. But why is the insistence on doing it on THEIR terms? It is perfectly possible to function in the hearing world on our terms, while showing respect for the hearing culture, language, and norms. Don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise. I know, because I do it all the time.

FURTHER READING:

Empathy Isn’t Always A Natural Instinct When One Is The “Default”
On Being Deaf: Part One
On Being Deaf: Part Two
On Being Deaf: Part Three
Communication: Freedom Of Choice
Identity: Fluid or..?
Identity & Fluidity: Just A Thought
A Positive Deaf Identity: What is it?
Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities Part Two
Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities Part One
Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities: Deaf Gays And Lesbians
Tales Of The Deafhood - The Epiphany
Tales Of The Deafhood - An Introduction
More Thoughts on the Deaf Blogosphere
What is Deafhood?
Deafhood: A Process Of Self Repression
Many Tribes
In One’s Own Image: Ethics and the Reproduction of Deafness
Ethnicity, Ethics, and the Deaf-World
Informed Choice and Deaf Children: Underpinning Concepts and Enduring Challenges

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Empathy Isn’t Always A Natural Instinct When One Is The “Default”.

What the hell is wrong with people? What is it about deafness that sends people off to Whoop, Whoop, in search of the Holy Grail that will provide them with the ultimate answers that will solve all our problems regarding deafness. A solution that would make the lot of the hearing parent’s [and by extension, the hearing world's] job easier. Wild and crazy Friday night, Deaf Mom of Two Deaf Children, Would Beethoven Have Wanted a Cochlear Implant?, Can Culture Argument Be Applied Equally and Why I Won’t Teach My Children ASL, among many other blog posts, leave me some serious questions as to why are we covering the same ground, that we covered 20 years ago, and still getting frigging nowhere?

I sound jaundiced I know, but I am sick and tired of listening to parents go on about unconditional love, and from what I have been privileged to witness, it is anything but. At times, it seems like one, long, continual projection of what the child should be, based on the parents image of themselves. Are we photocopying or are we creating?

If the last 20-30 years has seen an explosion in knowledge about deafness, and a greater awareness of what it is and how we can deal with it, then why are we traversing the same, tired, old debates about choice in communication, what’s the best method for teaching, and so on, and so on?  Why are we traversing the same, tired, old, ground, blithely unaware and blissfully ignorant, of all that has gone before? More pertinently, ignoring past precedence as if it has no bearing on the parents child today. “My child is unique, therefore requires a unique solution!”

With all this knowledge and experience at our disposal, one would think that we would be making better progress for our Deaf brethren, kith and kin, giving them a better world to live in, than was possible in the past. Well, I’m killjoy, and am enjoying it very much. I, for one, have a good grasp of Deaf history and a better nuanced understanding of the dynamics of the Deaf and Hearing relationship than a lot of people. With all this knowledge and experience we supposedly share, will somebody please tell me:

1. WHY are parents [and the Hearing world] increasingly resorting to is technology to deal with deafness and its implications?
2. WHY are Deafies continually being weened on technological measures to build their bridges to the Hearing world via cochlear implants, hearing aids?
3. WHY the continuing emphasis on lipreading, cued speech, to achieve the same aim as in point 2?
4. WHY, inspite of assurances to the contrary, is sign language still treated as a tool, to be picked up and discarded as the situation demands?
5. WHY do people continue to labour under the assumption that all people with a hearing impairment are alike [the same]?
6. WHY is the aspiration to integrate with the Hearing world done at the expense of being Deaf, and having a positive Deaf identity?
7. WHY is the aspiration to integrate with the Hearing world still the Holy Grail?
8. Indeed, why is more effort expended in building up the deaf child for a life where the Hearing world takes centre stage?
9. WHY does all this technology define who we are as people?
10. AND most salient of all, why is the irony of all these questions lost on all concerned?

I ask these questions not because I don’t understand the reasons behind the choices people make, because I do. I ask these questions not because I don’t understand why some people want to hear more, because I do. I ask these questions not because I seek to deny a person the right to seek technological assistance, because I do understand why they seek technological assistance. I do understand the reasons a mate of mine gave for why he chose to get the cochlear implant. I ask these questions, because nobody is answering them, or even asking these same questions. Instead we are are inundated with the false dichotomy of the oral, implant, lipreading skills, et al, being equated with successes.

I ask these questions, cause I am not blinded by the Holy Grail that is the Hearing World!

Community, communication and culture, The Three C’s, in the Hearing sense, are conceptually limited to audio and speech. More succinctly, they are limited to a strict reading of what the five senses mean. Sure the Hearing employ other means of communication via the other four senses: sight, smell, touch and feel, when the situation demands, and the means of communication are many, but in the final analysis, Hearing community, communication and culture is built on the one dominant underlying structure: audio and aural! The problem is that we Deafies have proven that a human being can function quite well without sound [or a heavy reliance on sound].

In spite of the advances we have made in promoting a better understanding of deafness, and proving the validity of the Deaf identity and Deaf culture, we still cling to the notion of success and esteem as human beings, let alone Deaf people, as measured in Hearing terms. We Deafies, are still being condemned to a life that is dependent on technology and a hearing world.

Technology is expensive, and unless money is no object, it quickly becomes a yoke, from which we Deafies are never free.

I find it hard not to see this obsession with technology as a solution for deafness is bordering on psychopathic violence. As a Deaf person, it’s hard not to be offended by all the rationalisations employed for why the cochlear implant is used. For all the protestations of love and affection for sign language, yet so much effort and energy is expended into programs that use cued speech, speech therapy, lipreading in a supreme effort to give their kids the most opportunities, because it is a hearing world.

Parents, we know that. Parents, those of us who are now in middle age, looking back, see the same crap being pulled today that was pulled years ago. As one blogger wrote:

“…we CANNOT view oralism with CI children as it is a completely different way of raising deaf children today.”

Oralism years ago is no different to oralism now. The intent is the same, it’s just the technology is different. If parents [The Hearing World] put half the time and energy into helping to build deaf culture, building bridges between the deaf and hearing worlds, and build a place where your deaf kids can be deaf without a reliance on audio means, their futures [and indeed, all of our futures] wouldn’t look so bleak. I don’t care what rationalisations are used, deaf kids are being condemned to a depended on technology for their inclusion, self esteem and confidence.

Sure, I’m not a parent, and don’t have the responsibility of raising and making decisions for children. But I am someone’s child. And I have bore the brunt, both good and bad, of parental jurisdiction. And like all children, I know that our parents are not God, and that they screw up somewhere along the line. More than this, I am an uncle, and unlike most uncles, I have actually changed nappies, walked the floor, cradled them to sleep, played with them, rowed with them, and know full well that I actually exert influence, and quite aware that it can be negative as well as positive. Then again, my single status makes me sensitive to parental bullshit.

For all the advances and progress, we still revert to type, when it comes to seeking solutions. It’s better to be Hearing. If you can’t be Hearing, then hear something. I don’t expect hearing people to ever, really understand. I have given up on that objective. “Empathy isn’t always a natural instinct when one is the “default”.”

If this rant offends you, too bad. I’m not impressed with the rationale that parents are putting forth as to how they are rear their deaf/ deaf children. For all their patronising protestations that it’s OK to be Deaf, the ultimate aim though, is that Holy Grail. The identification with and integration with, the Hearing world. On Hearing terms!

FURTHER READING:

On Being Deaf: Part One
On Being Deaf: Part Two
On Being Deaf: Part Three
Communication: Freedom Of Choice
Identity: Fluid or..?
Identity & Fluidity: Just A Thought
A Positive Deaf Identity: What is it?
Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities Part Two
Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities Part One
Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities: Deaf Gays And Lesbians
Tales Of The Deafhood - The Epiphany
Tales Of The Deafhood - An Introduction
More Thoughts on the Deaf Blogosphere
What is Deafhood?
Deafhood: A Process Of Self Repression
Many Tribes
In One’s Own Image: Ethics and the Reproduction of Deafness
Ethnicity, Ethics, and the Deaf-World
Informed Choice and Deaf Children: Underpinning Concepts and Enduring Challenges

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Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities Part Three

As I wrote in the post, Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities Part Two,setting the agenda for debate is major theme in chapter two of Paddy Ladd’s Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood, and is a question that is overlooked in the debates that rent the Deaf and deaf communities. Not only are we so conditioned to think in terms of “it is us who are lacking” and that many of us don’t ever question this conditioning, the terms of reference are so narrow, and deliberately so, that we never consider the questions of class, age, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality. We are defined purely by our “hearing loss/ impairment”, and any other issue is deemed irrelevant.

But Deafies as a minority group are not immune to influences from the dominant culture. More to the point, we are the product of that culture, and class, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality affects not only how we live our lives as “hearing impaired” people, but also how we define ourselves as Deaf people and the kind of culture we are create. More pertinently, the oppression that results from class, age, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality, adds to the oppression we receive as Deaf/deafies [this is a post for another time].

As it stands, there are many who dismiss the Deaf Identity and Deaf Culture under the patronising guises of people who HAPPEN to be Deaf, freedom of choice in communication methods, we are all the same whatever our hearing loss, we all should share the same goals because we all have a hearing loss, and so on. This attitude is further reflected in how funding is targetted, which further influences the types of projects that are created to secure this funding.

This can be best exemplified in the numerous projects that target YOUNG people. In one fell swoop, paying no regard to those of us who are not young, and further compounding the disadvantages that older Deaf people have experienced in their lives.

The differences of class, age, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality are keenly felt, but they either are dismissed  as irrelevant to deafness, or dealt with in a superficial manner, in a manner akin to the patronising we are all equal, let’s put all over differences aside and get along now shall we! This has the added affect of stifling honest debate.

Which brings us to the question, in the success or failure of various projects and initiatives targetting the Deaf and deaf communities, what the terms of reference when analysing these successes or failures. Particularly the failures? Are issues of class, age, race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality factored in when giving and receiving feedback?

When discussing and researching deafness the question of sexuality.This is the driving force behind the survey I wrote about in Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities: Deaf Gays And Lesbians. While the survey itself is specific and targetted at  Deaf Gays and Lesbians, we have been encouraging our Deaf heterosexual, bisexual, and transgender brothers and sisters to participate in this survey, as it was recognised that deafness has ramifications on all Deaf and deaf people and how they learn about their bodies and their sexuality, and how they access this information, and whether this information is created and made available.

Further Reading:

Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities Part Two
Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities Part One
Tales Of The Deafhood - Deaf Communities: Deaf Gays And Lesbians
Tales Of The Deafhood - The Epiphany
Tales Of The Deafhood - An Introduction
More Thoughts on the Deaf Blogosphere
What is Deafhood?
Deafhood: A Process Of Self Repression
Many Tribes
In One’s Own Image: Ethics and the Reproduction of Deafness
Ethnicity, Ethics, and the Deaf-World
Informed Choice and Deaf Children: Underpinning Concepts and Enduring Challenges

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