We’ve put something together for media creators, across a wide swath of media. This brief guide covers some of the biggest issues that we see in the media on a regular basis. Not everything here will apply to everything, but there’s much that will apply to journalists and filmmakers and fiction writers and YouTubers. And…
Month: January 2019
“Deaf Mute” Spotted In The Wild
“Hearing Impaired” is problematic. “Deaf mute,” though… that’s next-level. And both terms are featured in this well-meaning but mistake-laden article from the Seymour Tribune, a newspaper from Seymour, Indiana. So what’s wrong with “deaf mute”? Partly it’s just the history – it’s one of those words/ terms that has gathered a lot of negative connotation…