Thank you for coming to Glimmer of Hope and supporting services to Deaf survivors! We COULD NOT do this work without you! We are looking forward to enjoying our evening together this Saturday. You may park at the City Center West Garage, located directly across the street from Preservation Park (click for a link to google maps): 1239 Jefferson Street Oakland, CA When you enter the garage, you will be given a token. It is important to save this token, it is required to leave the garage. You will not have to pay anything unless you lose the token! Please email us if you have any questions deafhope@deaf-hope.org. Again thank you for coming to Glimmer of...
We are thrilled to recognize our former intern and advocate Rossana Reis for her poetry being accepted in the 29th Solo Mujeres Show, “Intersectionality,” at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Gallery @ 2868 Mission Street, 2nd Floor in San Francisco. Opening reception March 26th-May 2nd. For more of Rossana Reis’ work, go to www.rossanareis.com. What It’s Like to Be Me: DeafBlind Disabled Queer Latina Ping ponging between moving chatters Gestures, gists, do I really matter Protactile, captions, transcripts are grand My whole consciousness and vision expand A cobra, canary, cougar or cow Making guesses out of cumulus clouds Unless I am given a useful clue Not sure what value and respect it’s due Image, video descriptions solve codes Synapses fire, messages uploads A restful night of sleep is a blessing Awake with aches, I will not be dressing Overwhelmed, sometimes to myself, I’m unkind My muscles reeling behind my ambitious mind Smiling, laughing, sun shining on my soul Depth and meaning, I crave to fill my hole Misread assumptions based on preconceived notions Presuming I’ve not yet chosen or been chosen I breathe, share space with much love and delight Queer is a way of being, a birthright During family festas, I feel unease I studied English, Spanish, and Portuguese Can they learn ASL, LSM, or LIBRAS So we can have more bate-papos com...
image description: long haired Leang, wearing beige t-shirt with long necklace, sitting in front of a fireplace with mantle which holds four Cambodian statues and glide chair next to the fireplace] Titled “Whitewashing Culture” [transcription: When I posted a while ago about whitewashing culture, I noticed that people had difficult time accepting that. As the first generation here in America, which means I was born here and my family were not, I have experienced a lot of cultural clashes. Using my own life experiences, I can tell you that we do indeed live in whitewashing culture. Let me give you several examples from my experience: When I was a kid, let me say first I grew up eating homemade food from my culture, anyway once I wanted to bring a lunch from home to school because I was tired of eating lunch at school and we were on a field trip. I actually made my own lunch and I was only 7 years old because my family didn’t know how to make American lunch. Ironically, what I packed wasn’t your typical American lunch like PB + jelly sandwich lunch. I thought the food I packed were normal and I was so excited. When it was lunchtime, we were eating our lunch. I’d get comments, like “Umm…what is that?” and disgusted looks from my peers and even my teachers, too. If I were to dress “strangely” or behave differently, I’d get labeled “FOB” which stands for fresh off boat. That term is a racial slur. The only times I’d get compliments for wearing my traditional cultural clothes is when we...
Aracelia Aguilar, Empowerment Director, shares an update from DeafHope. She is a Deaf Latina wearing a black shirt, sitting on a chair against a white background. “There has been fraudulent activity using our board chair, Julie Rems-Smario’s name. She is not staff at DeafHope and isn’t looking for employees. If you come across anything suspicious using her or DeafHope’s names, please contact us at...
Last week DHN reported about survivors of domestic violence, but what about the people helping them along the way? This week, DHN sits down with two advocates to discuss the barriers survivors face when searching for...
