Mishka Zena

This involves certain dynamics observed in both the blogs and vlogs in the Deaf Cyberspace.  But the concepts also apply to everybody in real life, both hearing and deaf communities.
Name calling, insults and put downs are considered emotionally abusive, designed to make the person feels bad about oneself.  Low Functioning, Pea Brain, Stupid, and No Good [...]

FACEBOOK DEAF SCAMMERS  The names used by these scammers are Mary White and MWells, both which are probably fictional.  So don’t accept their invites as they may raid the names of your friends and hit on them.
A commenter, JJ, shared this:  “someone tried to do the same for me and I played along by saying [...]

I got an AIM on Facebook.  This person started talking about herself, being Deaf, not married and living in XX where she doesn’t know many Deaf people.  She wants to meet other Deaf people.  Then she started hitting on me. Recognizing a scam, I decided to play it dumb, stringing her along, for the fun of it.
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I first observed this pattern during the Gallaudet University Protest. Some supporters of the Jordan/Fernandes Administration on campus would be throwing out derogatory mental diagnoses of the Deaf leaders and certain Deaf protesters of Unity for Gallaudet. They’d say “Oh that person has severe psychological problems”, or “That leader has a history of…..”, etc. I thought to myself, what a [...]

Apparently it is becoming a serious problem in DVTV. Deaf Christians are imposing their religious values and making righteous judgments on Deaf Gays and Lesbians. Normally I avoid religious topics. There’s an excellent reason why people shouldn’t talk about religions, politics, and money… these divisive topics get people all fired up, damage friendships, and poison [...]

Watching the fray about the captioning of ASL vlogs, I can understand where Carl Schroeder is coming from. Yes, captioning would benefit Deaf Blind Community, Deaf people, including foreign Deaf, who don’t understand ASL, and hearing people. Personally I don’t think it’s fair to accuse vloggers of not being inclusive due to their refusal to subtitle for [...]

In my last post, I challenged AGBell Association regarding its letter of protest to Pepsi Cola Corporation for ‘implying that Deaf people only communicating using sign language.”  How does AGBell Association know the Deaf people don’t speak orally, too?  They may be wearing hearing aids and can lipread, too.
I rest my case:
Darren Therriault, the guy who [...]

While reading other stories on DeafRead and this blog, we noticed that the issue of “missing opportunities” and “being in a box” often came up when discussing deaf people who grew up using ASL. We thought this over and spent a good time discussing it. We realized that we truly do not feel as if [...]

How did you feel when the c.i. blogs started appearing in DeafRead?  What are your concerns? Hopes? 
Comments:
In my opinion, I think its good that CI blogs appear in DeafRead.
 
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Freedom of speech and we have to have both sides “pro” and “con”  I know it is hard but keep DeafRead in Neutral position.  Not a problem [...]

The recent invasion of C.I. blogs came as a surprise. The timing was coincidental, as I was planning to release my own series regarding cochlear implants.  In the past, C.I. blogs were few, so DeafRead was viewed as too ASL-centric by a minority. Now the pendulum appears to have swung to the other extreme, with [...]