If you’re not able to be a compassionate human being and see why deaf people, incarcerated or not, deserve access. Then maybe you shouldn’t be an interpreter.
Signed,
Another human being who happens to be deaf
Poison an entire city & the charges get dismissed but someone stealing food to survive or sheltering on a train in freezing weather gets criminalized. This is how crime is socially constructed: criminalize mostly poor people for petty offenses while legitimizing mass harm.
Interesting post. I wouldn’t say GenZ aren’t resilient. I actually think they’re switched on / set better boundaries when it comes to work life balance. They’ve seen parents overwork with little reward and their refusal to feed into ‘high intensity’ work culture stems from this.
one of the joys of adulthood is watching all your friends realize they can just adopt a cat. nothing is stopping them. and then they do that. and upload a million pictures of it.
Discovered that THREE DIFFERENT elementary schools in my city were locked down yesterday due to similar situations.
Have I mentioned yet how much you can fucking fuck your open carry?
Average Weekly Wages
1973: $873
2022: $813
Median Home
1973: $30,200
2022: $433,100
Monthly Rent
1973: $108
2022: $2,002
Tuition and Fees at University of California
1973: $150
2022: $13,104
Boomer: But why can't the slackers pay for college & pay off their loans like we did?
Really wish more people took ASL more seriously, and saw it as an actual language.
It is SO much more than just “some cute fun thing to learn!”
🥲 (smiling tear emoji)
Ok the fact that there are interpreters out there with… deplorable signing skills but make more than twice my hourly earnings… feels really wrong to me. Like it gets under my skin.