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Sign language

The Deaf Artist Who Signed at the Super Bowl Is Disappointed in Fox’s Coverage

Kim, a deaf artist who performed the national anthem in sign language, was largely excluded from the Fox Sports broadcast.
By Helen Holmes

Christine Sun Kim’s Art About the Erasure of Deaf History Takes Over London for One Night

"We’ve always had a voice, but there’s just this hierarchy of languages that don’t allow us to be heard in a way."
By Alisha Wexler

Millicent Simmonds on How the Plot of ‘A Quiet Place’ Relates to Real Life

It's this one thing—a perceived weakness—that gives the Abbott family their power.
By Ann Votaw
Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman in This Close.

TV Has Never Seen Characters Like the 20-Somethings of ‘This Close’

By Anne Easton
Humans co-opted the anatomical structures for breathing and chewing to create speech.

Language Could Be Humankind’s Most Impressive Technological Invention

By Salikoko S. Mufwene
A bilingual person, flipping you off (stock.chang)

A New Yorkers’ Guide to Practical Fake Sign Language

By Ben Widdicombe
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