Other writing

Poetry

That Nickel Story

Programming

Genesis

Sad Moody Doomsday Commute

Florida Killed My Dog

Wife of Bath

Limb O Music

Honors Thesis

Deaf Politics of Nature: American Sign Language Poetry into the Twenty-First Century

(I can’t link this due to copyright, but here’s the abstract:)

This thesis is interested in how American Sign Language poetry can do the work of deaf political projects. I analyze texts about deaf culture as primary sources from two key deaf political moments to explore the changing dynamics of deaf identity. I couple these analyses with close readings of ASL poetry, aiming to show how two ASL poets embody these respective political moments in their work. In my analysis of ASL poetry, I attend to nature thematics and formal strategies, connecting these elements to the poetry’s mediation of deaf politics. Glosses—English guides to ASL texts—of the ASL poems I discuss are available in the appendix, as are hyperlinks to the videos of ASL poems.