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Think-Between: A Deaf Studies Commonplace Book - Coggle Diagram
Think-Between: A Deaf Studies Commonplace Book
Deaf Culture, in particular, has been around the block with this discussion for a long, long time
The term “Deaf” (with a capital D)
is the preferred usage of some people who are either born profoundly deaf or who become deaf at a very early age and who regard themselves as belonging to the Deaf community
they share a sense of Deaf pride
traditions
lifestyles
values
humour
folklore
art
theatre
language
"if they are oral deaf, I will call them deaf"
During socialist regime, people were being "euthanised"
killed with gas chambers
administered drugs to cause overdosed
starved to death "unofficially"
Interestingly enough, these IQ labels parallel those assigned to hearing loss by medical practitioners
and both sets of terms came onto the diagnostic screen in our culture at about the same time
they were also sterilized
things are not always clearly or singularly defined, designated, determined as “just,” or “pure,” or “only” deafness
Who — or what — are deaf people so afraid of when they resist placement in the commonplace of “disability”?
The originary location of the Deaf/deaf divide dates around 1972
This think-between space between
“deaf” and “Deaf” is a rock and a hard place for Deaf Studies
Within the deaf kaleidoscope is the fragmented but also contained — and beautiful — image of the ever-shifting deaf cyborg
What Haraway’s cyborg myth foretells is that deaf people and the Deaf world won’t
likely disappear, implanted as alien others
the cochlear implant seems
to be squaring itself as the technology advances and the next generation of young deaf
and hard-of-hearing people comes of counting age
It will take far more than an implant to make deaf identity (whatever it might
be) go away
Hearing aids have never pulled the rug entirely out from under deafness
eugenicists couldn't either
oral focused educators sweep things under the rug
We need only glance over our shoulders at the specter of those doctors during the Nazi era who had themselves (and important others) convinced that living a life with a disability was a life simply not worth living
Deaf people were one of the eight categories of people targeted for these “mercy deaths”
these doctors killed over 270,000 of those
lives deemed “unworthy” in gas chambers
we should also be critically careful not to let cochlear implants create a smoke screen that hides other strong magic at work
hile the Deaf world frets over the loss of Deaf Culture and identity at the hands of geneticists, cochlear implant surgeons, and hearing parents (to name but a few of the largest threats),, the truth of another matter is that on campuses where it is offered, no language except Spanish enrolls better than ASL right now
Deaf education did not — and does not — occur in a socioeconomic-historical vacuum
Perspective (the “eye”) really matters;
the personal (the “I”) experience really matters as well.