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hearing privilege

Panoramic of Crater Lake, a scenic view of water, mountains, trees and hazy sun.
Issue 17 by David Peter on February 24th, 2015
I have never met another person who is deaf at a hearing tech conference. I regularly see uncaptioned video tutorials for open source libraries and transcript-less tech podcasts. I stopped going to tech meetups. Without any representation in tech, I grew up a token.
Photo of Chad Taylor.
Events by The Editor & Chad Taylor on October 28th, 2014
"Not many hearing people realize Deaf people have to fight for access on a daily basis."
Albright, the author, typing. Their face is turned in profile.
Lean Out by William Albright on February 24th, 2014
Deaf people can’t learn to hear, can you learn to provide access?