Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀

(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)

If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊

"Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.

But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible."

#Gallaudet_eleven

Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀

(You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.)

If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊

"Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission.

But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible.

In the late 1950s, #NASA had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick.

So they came to #Gallaudet.

Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness.

NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards.

Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space.

No #Gallaudet_Eleven — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II.

Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth & came home safely.

They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of.

Now you know!"

#Artemis2 #ASL #History #TIL #Nyle_di_Marco

In light of my Arts Council England funding application rejection if anyone would like to help me raise some arts funding via my PayPal Direct or KoFi page it would be immensely appreciated.

PayPal direct: https://www.paypal.me/thatdeafguy
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/thatdeafguy

I'm a photographer and visual artist who is aiming to be professionally trained with audio visual. Yes, I am a deaf person with aim to work with both analogue and digital audio creation. The funding will go towards hardware, software and 1-2-1 training leading up to immersive and accessible AV art installations.

I would greatly appreciate this post boosted if you are willing to.

Thank you,

Lee.

#VisualArtist #Photography #AudioVisual #CrowdSourcing #KoFi #Funding #Arts #Artist #ArtsFunding #DisabilityArts #DeafArtist #Deaf #CrowdFunding #AskFedi

Does anyone know of any kinky ASL / BSL interpreters who would be willing to sign at events?

If you're happy to go on a list that I can pass round to kink event organisers in the UK and US, let me know because we are in desperate need of folks!

#Deaf #SignLanguage #Accessibility

It is the custom among the eastern Slavs to read the prologue of St. John in many languages during the Paschal liturgy. (By contrast, those in the Greek orbit read the gospel appointed for Paschal vespers in many languages instead.) I think we had over a dozen languages; Danish was a new addition this year. Before I became a deacon, I used to read in Cherokee — someone my mom knows in Tahlequah, Oklahoma made me a recording so I could at least approximate the tonal aspect of the language. Nowadays I skip reading so I can conserve my energy to make it to the end of liturgy.

Last night was the first time we’ve had a sign language interpreter for it, which I thought was really cool.

#Pascha2026 #deaf

Today, 13 April, is Auslan day!

https://www.deafaustralia.org.au/events/auslan-day

#auslan #Deaf

https://codeberg.org/Jueltrae/SignArchive

Od lat uczymy się PJM (Polskiego Języka Migowego) i brakuje nam dobrego słownika znaków.

Dostępne słowniki PJM są często zamkniętymi projektami, sprzed kilku lat, w których nie ma informacji czy znak jest wciąż używany i z jakiego rejonu pochodzi (Warszawa? Kraków? Poznań?).

Postanowiłyśmy więc amatorsko stworzyć własny słownik, który będzie na bieżąco aktualizowany i każda osoba będzie mogła dodać do niego znaki, definicje oraz źródła znaków.

Zapraszamy wszystkich chętnych g/Głuchych i słyszących do współtworzenia strony i nagrywania znaków do bazy -> https://tally.so/r/RGJYZJ

#deaf #signlanguages #glusi #pjm #jezykmigowy