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Joseph Hill, PhD.
@jaceyhill
#FirstGen Ph.D, Professor, Sociolinguist, ASL Linguist, Spongebob Squarepants Aficionado (he/him)
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Feb 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Whew. I didn't know what to expect when I became a university faculty, but there are so many unwritten and unspoken expectations and duties that really slow down my research productivity. I finally got it after 12 years. The main thing is when making a commitment, make sure that you can give it 100%, even if it is a collaboration project. It won't work if you do 50% and expect 50% from others.
Dec 1, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Honestly, I am tired of answering the same questions about Black ASL. They are always asked with the assumption that it is well studied and it is part of ASL curriculum. No, it is not well studied and no, no one teaches it. Why? Racism. That's the short answer. Stokoe and his deaf associates (1965) mentioned the black southern ASL variety in the appendix of their ASL dictionary. However, Maxwell and Smith-Todd (1986) claimed that Stokoe and his associates decided not to include Black ASL in their analysis because it's too different.
Sep 23, 2019 • 33 tweets • 7 min read
A week ago, I came up with this joke as a way to vent about interpreting. It wasn't about white interpreters; it's about not having black male interpreters to work with when I needed them. I was working with the editor on the documentary film, "Signing Black in America." *thread* I'm one of the associate producers on the film and I'm also one of the scholars who are doing the work on Black ASL. Naturally, I have to be on the film talking about Black ASL. The editors and procedures agreed that we needed to have black interpreters on the team 1/x
Mar 17, 2019 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
One time, I was invited to give a talk at a university about sign language studies. I gave the talk in ASL with the interpreters. After 45 minutes, my first question was "how did you get here?" It implied I couldn't get to the university without help. #AbledsAreWeird When I was a first year student, my head resident advisor called me to dinner. During our conversation, he told me that he didn't occur to him that deaf people could go to school, work, drive, talk, have children, and etc. Hmm "Deaf" and "dead" spell differently. #AbledsAreWeird