Bisexual

Spider

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

[Image ID: Spider in American Sign Language. Both hands in clawed 5 handshape, palms stacked with fingers out to represent spider legs. The hands are purple with sharp black nails. End ID]

Socialize

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Socialize in American Sign Language. Both hands in 4 handshape. Dominant hand with fingers pointed down and left circle base hand with fingers pointed up and right. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent blue, purple, and pink in different stages of the sign. Background is white.

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I ment to post this sooner because it's the last day to pre order but...LOOK AT THIS!

[Image ID: a book called Visual Stories in Sign Language by Brittany Castle. Illustrations show how various classifiers are used to describe birds. Text underneath reads:

Love American Sign Language? Support Deaf Artists!

ASL is a real, valuable, and beautiful language, used every day by members of the deaf community. It has a rich history, its own rules, and culture. Even better? When you purchase from a deaf artist, you are connecting with and supporting the deaf community and you can be confident that the signs in your art are correct because you bought from a native signer. 58 Creativity was founded to show ASL in clear, visual art that is easy to understand, even if you’re seeing ASL for the first time!

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Today, in “I’ll take any good news I can find”:

A production of Romeo and Juliet with Deaf actors signing their lines has been referred to as bilingual! Not just “accessible” or “diverse” but also BILINGUAL!

This makes me happy because the general idea of ASL (and other signed languages) is that they’re just a manual version of the spoken language. By that logic, Norwegian is just a higher-latitude version of German. Signed languages are languages of their own! With unique vocabulary, grammar, and dialects!

Journal Sentinel

Deaf actors make this 'Romeo & Juliet' a truly bilingual love story

In American Players Theatre's new "Romeo & Juliet," Deaf characters and American Sign Language are a normal part of daily life in that world

it felt like was the only one learning asl for nonverbalism reasons and i always felt weird about it cus there was never really any information about using asl for mutism like i'm appropriating deaf language or something? but i just got so sick of typing things out to communicate and people getting annoyed with how long it takes. its embarrassing. i've found that a sentence that comes out garbled and incomprehensible or doesn't come out at all when i try to speak verbally comes out easy as shit in sign. i also don't need captions for asl movies and videos (i got audio processing issues) so i'm working on my receptive skill also. anyway if you haven't done it before, what's the sign for selective mutism?

I am definitely grateful to the deaf community for sign languages. I don't think there would be sign languages if they hadn't developed and fought for it. But I don't think its appropriation to learn it for nonverbalism. For me personally, I'm just excited there's another person in the world I could sign with! I think it sucks that others assume people would only wanna sign if they have to! I've been in a number of situations in which I'm signing with someone, they ask if I'm deaf or hearing, then immediately start speaking when I say hearing. ASL is a wonderfully expressive language that feels so much more natural to me than spoken language.

Selective Mutism

Source: Lifeprint

[Image ID: Selective Mutism in American Sign Language. Hand in 4 handshape over the signers mouth, like the sign for "talk" then closes in S handshape over the mouth. The first part of the sign is red, and the second half is blue. End ID]

Arthritis

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Arthritis in American Sign Language. A handshape palm facing out shakes side to side. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent red with cracks running up the arm.

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Happy Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa

Sources: National Black Deaf Advocates, SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Kwanzaa in American Sign Language. Both hands in L handshape swoop away from each other and middle finger flicks up to end in 3 handshape. Palm can be oriented towards or away from signer; this image shows them facing away. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent red and green in different stages of the sign. Background is translucent.

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Autism

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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Autism in American Sign Language. Hand upright in 5 handshape palm facing signer closes into flat O handshape as it arches toward signer's chest and into base hand in C handshape. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent green and blue in different stages of the sign.

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Gay

Sources: Lifeprint, ASLDeafined, them

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The sign for Gay in American Sign Language. G handshape touches chin. Face, lips and hand are in pride colors (black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple) in a gradient. Background is white.

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Rainbow

Sources: SigningSavvy, Lifeprint, ASLDeafined

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The sign for Rainbow in American Sign Language. Hand in 4 hanshape, palm down on non-dominant side arcs and ends on dominant side, palm up. Movement is illustrated by arms that are translucent red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple in different stages of the sign. Background is white.

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