Action Alert: Hearing Person Exploiting ASL for Profit

quelola:

teaandtheatre:

arfism:

Some of you may have heard of Dirty Signs with Kristin. A youtube channel where a hearing person (who seems to have never studied ASL) is showing how to sign dirty phrases in ASL. However, it’s not even grammatically correct, some of the vocabulary is wrong, and some of the phrases are completely sexist & racist. She just announced that she has gotten signed to publish a book. This is where we need to come in and tell her this is NOT okay. Please click through the link to read more about this and read some of the fantastic comments being left about this. Take the time to email the publisher about this. Share this on tumblr & facebook. Tweet about it (even Marlee Matlin did!).

In addition, I have tried to communicate with Kristin via her Dirty Signs with Kristin facebook page and instead she has blocked me and has been consistently deleting any critical comments being left on her wall. Not cool Kristin. Not cool.

Doesn’t she have a segment on Tosh.0 too?

At the very least, sign this petition.

(Source: zoeenuage)

(Reblogged from brucebananeronawillgrahamcracker)

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    I feel guilty commenting on this, since I’m not deaf. However, I am semi-fluent in ASL, and I can see that this girl has...
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    I remember my friend saying something about her on fb a few weeks ago. It all makes sense now
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    Problematic. I’m understanding she has very little involvement with the Deaf community—so WHY would anyone want her to...
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    Wow, so many kinds of not okay. signal boost.
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    Important, I’m not greatly familiar with her videos but it is wholly unacceptable that she would get a book deal off of...