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Meet: Rinkoo Barpaga, Britain’s next Deaf stand-up comedian!

August 7, 2013 by

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I first met Rinkoo Barpaga back in 2006, when he joined Vee-TV’s team as a researcher. Since then I’ve seen […]

Samira Mohamed: What it’s like to be a Deaf volunteer in the Philippines

July 17, 2013 by

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I was so nervous the day before my departure to the Philippines with eight other Deaf UK volunteers. I couldn’t […]

Jason Wagner: I met a nice girl online. So what’s the catch?

June 17, 2013 by

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This article was originally published here on medium.com, and is republished here by kind permission of the author, Jason Wagner. […]

We’re Latvian, we’re Deaf and we’re in the UK: The untold story of Deaf migration

June 4, 2013 by

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Vladimirs Krumins and Rolands Barkans are both qualified builders from Latvia. Like many people from Eastern Europe, they have made […]

Watch: Emotional interview with signing family after home is destroyed by huge tornado

May 24, 2013 by

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An American family that use ASL (American Sign Language) to count their blessings are interviewed on CNN after their neighbourhood […]

Watch: The universal language is in our minds

March 21, 2013 by

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In this video from America, UC Berkeley linguistics lecturer Patrick Boudreault, who is Deaf, explains his view that language is a […]

Tom Seymour: “It was Deaf power.” Interview with Alex Gibney, director of Mea Maxima Culpa

March 6, 2013 by

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As scandal plagues the Catholic Church, a new documentary about four Deaf men who say they were sexually abused almost […]

Deaf News: New York Times article argues signing volunteers abroad can “do harm as well as good”

February 25, 2013 by

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A New York Times article argues that volunteers who travel abroad using one form of sign language can affect the […]

Watch: World’s Sexiest Deaf Man being interviewed in ASL!

February 7, 2013 by

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On Tuesday, we reported how John Maucere,  otherwise known as Playgirl’s “sexiest deaf guy” for their January 1990 issue, wowed […]

Deaf News: American series to air episode entirely in American Sign Language

January 21, 2013 by

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We haven’t seen it over here in the UK, but in America a series starring Oscar-winning American actress Marlee Matlin […]