ASL Poem: The Bridge

This is a very rudimentary ASL Poem that I put together. Feedback is welcome.

I know the framing is very bad. I recorded this over and over until the battery was dead. I could never get the camera high enough.... sorry... much of it was lost to editing because of framing issues. But I figured I'd at least make something out of what I had. :)

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• myhappyhands

[22Di44]

I'm currently studying to become an ASL/English interpreter, and, well, our profs have been telling us that it's unacceptable for a hearing person to create ASL poetry. Splain? I mean, ASL poetry is a form of ASL literature which is supposed to be created purely by deaf people, for deaf people. No?

[MyHappyHands]

Honestly, I can barely dignify that with a response. Do these same professors believe that inter-culteral marriage is unacceptable? Do still believe in slavery? Because that statement belongs with the rest of those ignorant discriminations.

[22Di44]

@MyHappyHands Not at all. And it's not even a discrimination. When they first told us that hearing people can't create ASL literature I of course furrowed my eyebrows at it because it made no sense. But you're an interpreter are you not? I'm just surprised you weren't told the same thing.

[MyHappyHands]

I am not LABELED by my profession. I am Bi-Lingual and Bi-Cultural. I grew up in the Deaf Community... and am still a part of the Deaf Community. Were you not taught that LABELS in the community are SELF-IDENTIFIED?

[unhatchable]

strange there is music?

[MyHappyHands]

yes - I used music to help me keep a good pattern (rhythm) in my editing - the song has nothing to do with the poem - but I used it as inspiration for the 'visual flow' of the video in the editing room

[peepla7]

love the poem. dont worry bout frames or comments from wannbe psyche-types. be you...as you do a better "you" than anyone else.

[xxpowwowbluexx]

@unhatchable What's strange about it?

[xxpowwowbluexx]

@MyHappyHands I'm a "home-grown" terp & I can't stand this kind of stuff that ITP students get taught. It is of course not their fault (mostly), but then things like this often manifest into oppressive behaviors of the ITP students/graduates onto the Deaf (including CODAs, & others of us who find our place in the Community). This kind of thing is rampant on YouTube especially. I urge any with whom this may apply to learn FROM the people, not so much ABOUT the people—& that goes for any people.

[grbabylovesongs]

Hi! I am Deaf. Congratulation! I interest your poem but i not like making video color (maybe movie maker, right?). i only suggest you that your video must be make brighter. I hope you understand me. I love you =) God bless you. ..

[jessweetca]

I am in a year long Deaf Culture Program. And 2 of the courses are on Deaf literature. Deaf Literature is any literature that involves Deaf people or that is by Deaf people. It is NOT exclusively for the Deaf and by the Deaf. It also includes historical, cultural, linguistic and artistic (poems, plays, stories) written or performed by hearing peopl sometimes in collaboration with the Daf scholars or artists and sometimes without. Many hearing people have Deaf family members, work with Deaf.

[jessweetca]

I am in a year long Deaf Culture Program. And 2 of the courses are on Deaf literature. Deaf Literature is any literature that involves Deaf people or that is by Deaf people. It is NOT exclusively for the Deaf and by the Deaf. It also includes historical, cultural, linguistic and artistic (poems, plays, stories) written or performed by hearing peopl sometimes in collaboration with the Daf scholars or artists and sometimes without. Many hearing people have Deaf family memebers, work with Deaf.