Karo Gebruers (she/her)
@karogebruers.bsky.social
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PhD, Heriot-Watt University ~ Interpreter VGT/Dutch & IS/EN (hearing) ~ feminist ~ do you believer 🦚
🚨Super excited to share that my first sole-authored paper has been published! 🥳 It explores how sign language interpreters can examine their positionality by drawing on perspectives from academic reflexivity and visual research. 🤔 It is out now and open access! 🎉
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Unpacking sign language interpreter positionality: perspectives from academic reflexivity and visual research
Sign language interpreter training programmes have long been established in many countries, particularly in Western nations with extensive histories of sign language interpreting (SLI). These progr...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1750399X.2026.2658330
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Karo Gebruers (she/her)
Maartje De Meulder
7 months ago
With this questionnaire
@karogebruers.bsky.social
, Deborah Giustini and I are exploring the impact of AI language technologies on VGT/NGT-Dutch interpreters & notetakers in Belgium (Flanders) and the Netherlands. If you are among the target group, do participate!
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MVGHn45Pa7
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Microsoft Forms
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MVGHn45Pa7
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C. L. Polk
11 months ago
I'm not a killjoy: it is socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything
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Sara Nović
over 1 year ago
And there it is. The Department of Justice has frozen all case activity in the civil rights division. This is the mechanism of enforcement for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and so much more.
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🤡 oh and we still don’t have a federal government ~ got to love 🇧🇪 goeiemorgen, bonjour!
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over 1 year ago
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Sara Nović
over 1 year ago
ICYMI: pandemics + authoritarians = no bueno, and why it matters, ahem, right now
open.substack.com/pub/novicnew...
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Disability rights are your (yes, you!) rights
Pandemics, eugenics, and why you (yes, you!) should care, ForRealThisTimev.2finalfinal
https://open.substack.com/pub/novicnews/p/disability-rights-are-your-yes-you?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1nxav
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the problem is real 🤓
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anyone around who can recommend a deaf female/queer graphic artist? thanks!
over 1 year ago
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Maartje De Meulder
over 1 year ago
Saw this play today. First time in my life I saw an entire performance in Flemish Sign Language by a mainstream theatre company, with deaf and hearing actors. No interpreters, but captions instead. What a joy. Legitimately impressed!
toneelhuis.be/en/program/m...
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[meeuw]
“What we need are new artistic forms. And if we don’t get new forms, then we would be better off with nothing at all. ” – Konstantin Gavrilovich Treplev, in Chekhov’s The Seagull
https://toneelhuis.be/en/program/meeuw/
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