Proud that my short story, "Toward the Light," will be featured in "Why Aren't You Dead Yet?" edited by Ella T. Holmes! Featuring deaf characters surviving a summertime blizzard. 🌨️ 🤟🏻 Embrace the cringe of the announcement card I made without the assistance/usurpation of AI.

As a kid, I had the brilliant idea to decorate my plain nightlight with a Barbie. I decapitated her and perched her head atop the conical bulb. You'd probably correctly guess that I woke in the dead of night to the cloying smell of burning plastic. Barbie has died. Long live Barbie. 1/2

Ever wondered how signed languages came to be? The scientific answer is that they develop just like any other language—a group of people realize they need to communicate, and go about collaboratively creating a language. For deaf people, that just happens to be a visual language. 1/3

Well, well, well. If it isn't one of my special interests. For #NationalSuperheroDay, let's talk about all the #deaf #MarvelComics characters. With great deafness comes great...hearing??? A thread 🧵

Today is #GirlScoutLeadersDay! Of course we'll be honoring the OG troop leader. Did you know that the founder of the Girl Scouts, Juliette 'Daisy' Gordon Low, was deaf? 👀 Check out the blog for a few highlights of her life! slacowan.com/2026/04/22/d...

Looking for something to read for #DeafHistoryMonth but need something that aligns with your other interests? Allow me to help! Hop over to the link or check the thread below for recs slacowan.com/2026/04/08/a...

Welcome to #DeafHistoryMonth! Because the top search autofill on Google is still "can deaf people drive?", have an essay about it. Deaf people have been driving since cars have been around! slacowan.com/2026/04/02/c... #deaf #cars #drive #history

Ranked list of #deaf characters in fiction has been updated! Also, April is #DeafHistoryMonth. What’s on your #ToBeRead list? 👀 slacowan.com/2026/03/29/r...

I’m eventually going to get back into “social” “media” (such that it is). At least layovers are good times to bulk up the following list

Are you a fanfic author? Have you ever wanted to include a deaf OC? Here's a blog post walking you through how to respectfully and more authentically include deaf characters--including etiologies and backstories--in the worlds and genres of your fandoms! slacowan.com/2026/01/14/g...

**SALE EXTENDED!** Deaf Awareness Month is over but we’re going to keep the sale running through Oct 10. Use promo code AWARE45 at checkout to get 45% off all books and ebooks. This is the biggest sale we’ll have for a while so stock up while you can! gupress.gallaudet.edu/Publishers/G... #ReadUP

Someday I’m actually going to get on here and follow the people I need/want to follow and start getting active(r) again, but it’s not this day 💀 social media is so time- and effort-consuming

$1346 to make this happen, BY TOMORROW help the African Translation Project! ko-fi.com/africantrans...

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In case you didn’t know, it’s #NationalDeafHistoryMonth! slacowan.com/2025/04/06/n...

First update of the list of fiction featuring #deaf characters of the year! I'm also ecstatic to announce that I've finally copy + pasted all the titles over to a spreadsheet so that it's easier to organize how you like. Cheers! Check out the list and spreadsheet here: slacowan.com/2025/01/24/r...