Collected Item: “My Battle Call”
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My Battle Call
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Meme
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
Reminders such as these have been circulating. Trying to help hearing people understand some challenges those in the Deaf world are facing right now. One of them being our inability to read lips and facial expressions. Many Deaf, deaf, HoH people have been shamed in public recently because we can not understand people wearing masks. Hearing people can be very rude shouting at us, "What are you deaf or something?!?" Well, yes sir I am!
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#ASU, #HST580, Deaf, deaf, HoH, Hard of Hearing, masks, confusion, communication
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Valli Gideons, @youcicanhearnow
Give this story a date.
2020