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Learn to defend against a bigot grabbing your hijab from behind!

In this post-election hate-crime spike, self defense is more important than ever. Practice this move until it becomes muscle memory and teach your body to react before thinking.

Also please note the position of her arm on his. It’s not on the elbow but just above it. That is will be important for the submission. The grip on her hand is important as well. It looks like she is using a monkey grip where the thumb stays with the fingers of the hand instead of wrapping around. It protects your thumb from being broken and can be a stronger grip in general.

Hello! 

I am a Deaf Autistic person conducting research on the experiences of other Deaf Autistic people in drug education programs. This study has been approved by the Gallaudet University Institutional Review Board (PJID: 2959).

Are you between the ages of 18 and 35? 

Did you attend school in the United States? Were you in some way involved in a special education program? (Note: If you are currently enrolled in a K-12 program, you are ineligible to participate.)

Have you been d/Deaf or hard-of-hearing since primary school?

Were you discovered to be on the Autism Spectrum before or during primary school?

Can you communicate in American Sign Language?

If so, you may be able to receive $40USD for an interview on your experiences! Please contact me at [email protected] or check out this blog for more information. (If you’re comfortable doing so, sharing this post would also help me a lot.)

On September 25th, 2016, I want to launch #NoMoreCraptions.

What is #NoMoreCraptions, you may ask? It’s a campaign that I want to start to make people aware of the lack of proper closed captioning on YouTube.

As you know, I have been working for almost two years to make YouTubers aware of closed captioning for their deaf audience. I have been somewhat successful, but I’m not clearly as close as I want to be. That is because I cannot do this by myself. There are too many people on this earth. I am one person in a world of seven billion. I can only make so many “caption your videos!” videos. Every channel has a different audience consisting of different people. In order to reach out to everyone, I need everyone’s help.

I have only one rule for this video: the video must be captioned, obviously. The video must be captioned before you make it public.

I want the videos to cover these topics:

Introduce the campaign and what it is

What closed captioning is

Why it’s important (d/Deaf/HOH people, people with auditory processing disorder, for people learning other languages, etc)

What auto c®aptions really are and why they don’t work

How it benefits creators (captions get translated into subtitles, brings it more viewers/subscribers)

How to caption (you can refer them to my 3 Ways To Caption video or tell them to Google, lol)

Note that if creators choose to go the fan contribution route, they NEED to look over the submissions before publishing. Caption with jokes and unnecessary commentary are not real captions and should not be published.

Anything else you can think of that would be worth noting.

I want to emphasize that I would really like to see these videos go up on Sunday, September 25th. Why? While September is fully dedicated to deaf awareness, there is one day dedicated to the cause: the last Sunday of September. So, for 2016, that’s the 25th.

Please, please, please, if you can get anybody you know on board with this, please send them this e-mail. Forward the e-mail to their inboxes. I want as many people involved as possible. My mission is to make this a huge thing. I want this to make this as big as possible in just one day.

When the day arrives, I will make a #NoMoreCraptions playlist on my YouTube channel so all the videos will be in one place.