This viral infection still dries the hell out of my throat.
Well, here is something very exciting that I’ve been meaning to share with you all
month.
I am on British Deaf News.
And British Deaf News is news… that is British… for the British people… and the Deaf…
bringing you Deaf news… that is British related.
It’s pretty self explanatory.
It says, “About the Deaf community. With the Deaf community. For the Deaf community.”
Or anybody that buys this particular issue for five pounds or subscribes to it for about
ten pounds a month.
Something like that.
This is the April 2015 edition.
It’s not a huge magazine.
There’s only about thirty-nine pages total.
So it’s very exciting for me because when I first open it up, there is my face, a pretty
large picture, that my friend, Bobby, took and his name is even in it.
And I am on page fourteen of this thing.
So let’s go to page fourteen because it’s the only thing that matters.
And here is the entire page about me.
I thought it was funny that they went through Google to find pictures of me -
They found this very old picture that I think I used as a thumbnail for a LORAC Pro Palette
tutorial and they erased all the Pro Palette stuff and then put this on there.
Very clever.
It says International Tab up here and then it says “THE GIRL BEHIND THE HEADLINES”
Like so mysterious.
And then over here, you have some of my videos that are deaf related videos:
This one is the HOLLYWOOD, STOP HIRING HEARING ACTORS FOR DEAF ROLES,
BEING DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING AND SOCIALIZING, SHIT HEARING PEOPLE SAY - I’m surprised
that one’s not up first ‘cos it’s the most viral,
I CAN’T HEAR YOU CHALLENGE: DEAF AWARENESS EDITION,
and last but not least, YOUTUBERS, YOU NEED TO CLOSED CAPTION YOUR VIDEOS.
And then the main part is all here. It’s just an interview with some questions and
my answers, really.
And I talk about me growing up, uhm, best thing about being Deaf,
me being on Huffington Post, and ABC News, BBC News, and my reaction to that,
some stuff about Switched At Birth,
And then there’s a short little message about, uhm, you know, my message to other
people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
So, yeah, this is the first time I’ve ever made it in a magazine, I’m pretty sure,
and have this entire spread, like this two page spread, and my face is in it and my name
is in it and stuff about me is in it and wow.
So if you want your own copy of this, it’s five pounds - whatever that is exchanged to
in your own currency - and you have to write a check to the office in order to get it and
I’ll put an address to the place you send a check to in the info box.
You can also subscribe to their magazine and I’ll put a link to that down below.
I know a large portion of my audience is from the UK because of me being on BBC twice or
three times and other, you know, British programs, so if you, hearing or not, have not heard
of British Deaf News, it’s something to look into if you’re looking for something
to subscribe to.
I don’t believe it’s just hard copies. I believe you can also subscribe to just digital
stuff and it might be cheaper. I hope it would be cheaper.
It is a good way of knowing exactly what’s going on in one of the Deaf communities out
there.
Oh, cool. I found out that there’s a book about a Deaf girl so maybe I’ll look into
that and see if that’s any good.
The Deaf man in Istanbul and that video that they did.
It’s just a good way to find out more about the Deaf community if you once were not involved
in it like I once was not.
Let me try to flip through some of these pages for you. Oh, look, there’s me again.
It’s really hard to flip through these pages and make sure I am in frame.
And here are some old school Deaf activists from a long time ago that are people worth
reading about and looking into and learning about.
They’re a big part of Deaf history, so it’s important to, you know, learn who these people
are.
Yeah, so I definitely think that British Deaf News is something worth looking into if you’re
wanting to learn and read more.
Again, I will put the information down below so you can subscribe or just get a copy of
this particular issue if you just want it ‘cos I’m in it.
Yeah, and I will see you in my next video. Bye.
Oh, this hurts.