Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.~Potter Stewart
The Psyche & Babble Show i.Mephisto’s Boudoir Mephisto’s Comedy Festival Visual Instincts Mephisto’s KettleI really hate forums and generic sites about deafness and all things deaf. They ask many QUESTIONS, people respond with OPINIONS, and no one who reads or participates, come away NONE THE WISER. I have two problems with them. One, they categorise all Deaf and deaf people under the same term: deaf. Two, they entrench [...]
Oh Lord! Praise Be They That Drag Their Knuckles and Lag Their Brains. For theirs is the nadir of human progression. Exactly what I thought when I read the latest media report on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, Couples Could Win Right To Select Deaf Baby, by Richard Gray, The Telegraph’s Science Correspondent, but [...]
The political and media response to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, has provided the inspiration for some very good writing, thought and analysis by Deaf people and their Hearing colleagues. The Stop Eugenics site is replete with articles and links, of which the following editorial Disability Now Coverage by Disability Now, blew me away. [...]