ASLCore is a team sport

16 ​ 17 I recently read two articles on America Magazine, a Jesuit publication, that reminded me of the Deaf Catholic community (of which I am a part). The first article, My black Catholic church was closed in the name of integration (capitalization following the original), reminded me of arguments that Deaf parishoners should go integrate with...

Lynn Stein recently said something in a document we were both commenting on, and it struck me as a lovely phrasing of something I’ve been thinking about for a while – so I asked for permission to use/share it, with attribution.

As I continue finding old research notes I should really just get out there, I found this one - the best writeup I have (from 2016 or so) on “role fluidity as a theory of cultural change.” This is something I’m still working on, but… first stabs at articulating. I do believe these are true, they’re just - incredibly half-baked, and… I… don’t know...

When I wrote my strategic plan in 2017 for the 2-year Gallaudet Peer Mentoring program, I ended up writing the best description I think I have written thus far about what I want my future research lab to look like. Here are these aspirations from 2017-Mel, who (notably) was on a signing academic campus as a signer for the first time - something I...

I just finished my training as part of the 2019 cohort of Gallaudet Peer Mentors. This is a 2-year certificate program for adults with hearing loss (who have various identities and linguistic mixes) who want to mentor other adults. We revisited our plans from 2 years ago, and I found some interesting bits in mine.