I actually got to interview Austin's best friend for a project I did a couple of semesters ago. His friend was in this video with him and is also deaf and transgender. I was informed that both gentlemen had no interpreter when they went to therapy and wound up having to write notes back and forth for an entire years. How tedious!
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Austin Unbound
A documentary was done on a young deaf transgender man named Austin and his surgery. Binding is the act of strapping down one's top half to appear flat and being "unbound" is having surgery and not having to be bound anymore. The documentary follows this deaf young man's struggle and I think it's pretty interesting.
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Austin's a good friend of mine!! :) he's amazing on many different levels! Small world!
ReplyDeleteThat posted before I was done.. Which friend did you meet? Chances are I know them as well
ReplyDeleteThe other day i seen a deaf guy at the water company and i only knew he was deaf based on the written notes he was writing the receptionist. At this moment i thought how infotunate it is that they haveto go through an extra effort to communicate and it made me think that sign language really should be required as a secondart language.
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