Thread by @funkybrownchick

For what it's worth, it's the same in the Deaf community. We don't capitalize "hearing" — nor do most heading folks identify with a community of fellow hearing people — but we do speak of the "big d deaf" community and culture. cjr.org/analysis/capit… via @CJR

"In deaf culture, there are two separate spellings of the word 'deaf.' They are the 'big D' Deaf in which a person identifies as a member of the deaf community and "small d" deaf in a person is deaf but doesn't identify as such." verywellhealth.com/deaf-culture-b…

I ❤️ Deaf history, language, culture ... and #DeafTikTok, #DeafTwitter, #DeafInstagram, etc. I think I've shared this link before but — to get a taste of the vibrancy of #ASL — watch 2 ppl sign the same song.

Man on the left — Billy Sanders — was the #ASL interpreter for my sold-out, one-woman theater show at @arenastage, "We're All Going to Fucking Die!" He's also a CODA (child of a Deaf adult). #ACreativeDC #202Creates #DCTheater