So I just subscribed to Netflix again, after years of turning my head every time I passed a red package on the street. It’s not just the iPad app that convinced me, though. See, I believe in financial activism. When Netflix ignored Deaf customers and their calls for online access-when their top officer made discriminating,…
Month: May 2011
It Gets Better – on National TV
It all started with Teresa’s article last fall, “It Gets Better. It Really Does.” She called for deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people to make similar videos IN ASL for deaf youth everywhere. I took her idea and ran with it, making my own video. 25 more videos soon followed. And then my video somehow made its way…
Way to Represent!
Countless deaf people tuned in last night to watch the finale of Celebrity Apprentice for one reason: to find out if Marlee Matlin won. Ah, Marlee. If she and the deaf community declared on Facebook that they were in a relationship, the status update would read, “and it’s complicated.” On one hand, she is our…