Alright yallllllll. I’m finally about to watch #DeafU . I’ll continue on to this thread with my thoughts and reactions

@Rodburf is definitely an asshole lmao. But that’s lil bro right there

Watching this show is weird. Idk why. Don’t know how to explain it. It’s just weird

Now I know y’all seem Braxton drive right?? Okay good. No more dumbass questions about “Can Deaf people drive??”

Seen*

Uhmmm this whole Alexa and Daequan situation don’t sit right with me at all......... #DeafU

This looks so forced. I can NOT lmaoo

Soooooo all the white girls getting passed between Rodney and Daequan!!? Lmao. Where Dalton at? He need more screen time. I’m over it #DeafU

The Mandingo effect on this bus is ASTRONOMICAL!! #DeafU

Yalllllll

There was a lot of teachable moments in #DeafU that they failed to spotlight

#DeafU did have some heartfelt and relatable moments that I empathize with, there were some educational thing that I think hearing people learned from, and it was dope seeing Gallaudet and the people I went to school with on Netflix. With that being said (Pt1)

#DeafU was definitely a race issue. We shouldn’t just strive to have our faces shown on tv and recognized, we should strive to have diversity among all platforms. Yes, the school is a PWI, but Deaf Black/POC women exist & they matter PERIOD. (Pt2)

Deaf Black/POC weren’t cast because they were not apart of this particular friend group. Truth of the matter is, many Deaf white women do not befriend Black/POC women #DeafU (pt3)

There should have been another friend group because Black Deaf women are a whole different culture and subgroup in the Deaf community and that should’ve been spotlighted. The show was an example of how Black/POC are left out everywhere. Do Better! #DeafU

But of course that’s just my lil 2 cent. You don’t have to agree with me. Everyone experienced the show differently and that’s okay. I hope the feedbacks are taken and something greater can come out of it #DeafU

I also wished that they dived a little bit deeper into the big D and little d topic. I’m actually in the middle. I’m generally Deaf and have a Deaf family on my Dad side. (I wouldn’t be considered elite tho lmao) but I was raised by my mom side of the family which is hearing and

And none of them sign. Because of that I went into speech therapy and had to learn how to speak. I went to mainstream school from elementary to middle school. I was bullied and always was fighting cause people wanted to pick on the deaf girl.

From 8th-12 grade I transferred to a Deaf school. I thought it would be better for me to finally be around people that were like me. But then I wasn’t accepted because I wasn’t “deaf enough” because I could talk and listen to music.

I felt like I didn’t fit in anywhere. I had a hard time figuring out my identity and where I belonged until I went to Gallaudet. At Gallaudet I realized for myself that the whole division of Big D and little d comes from pain. I’m not even talking about the “elites”

The pain comes from Deaf people being so oppressed in history/present that there is so much resentment towards hearing people and “hearing like” deaf people. Deaf people were forced oralism, forced not to use ASL, experience language deprivation etc.

So they take that power back by being so prideful of the culture and language. We see it still to this day that Hearing people rather make a hearing person signing incorrectly go viral than Deaf Creators

At Gallaudet, more and more hearing staffs and students are coming on campus and don’t even socialize with us. Like excuse me, why are we letting the oppressors in our space??

So, I get it. Both sides. It comes from pain and we should really have more conversations about it with empathy. One thing about me tho I’m for ALL DEAF PEOPLE. Whether you born Deaf with generations of Deaf family, Late Deafened, HOH, Deaf oral, Deafblind, DeafDisabled etc etc.

Alright I’m done now lol