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The complex, attractive roles of dwarfs in Mirror, Mirror
(SPOILER ALERT: If you want to be surprised by everything in the movie, wait to read this until after you’ve seen it.) As I said in a Tweet after I saw Mirror Mirror, Just saw #MirrorMirror. It was great! And #SebastianSaraceno (the dwarf called Wolf) is the sexiest little man I've ever seen. #SnowWhite — […]
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A sample video of English-ASL platform interpreting
I’m posting this for anyone who is curious to watch an English-ASL interpreter at work on stage with a speaker. Dr. Johanna Blackley and the Honors Forum coordinator at Mesa Community College were kind enough to let me share this video my interpreting partner took of me with my phone. I asked my team to […]
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When they talk about you, the interpreter, do-do*?
In ASL, we have a sign that’s a lexicalized form of the letters D-O, repeated at least twice, glossed DO-DO. It means something like, “what to do?”, “how to cope?”, “what do you suggest?”, or any number of similar concepts.
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Why don’t we call ourselves interpreters for the Hearing?
I mean, Hearing people are the ones who hire us, right? Hearing people need us to interpret for them because they are not fluent in sign language, and most of the time, Hearing people foot the bill. So why do we so often side with our Deaf consumers? We signed-spoken language interpreters probably all have […]