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@mqandmrs
@crystalqueer I loved the coloring book post! Shout out to your model Alicia for doing a great job!
You have no idea how many times I have to explain that my tattoo means “I love you” and not “rock on!”
Can this book be purchased? Thanks!
I LOVE THIS. THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY.
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@catfinn86 It’s not a physical book, only online coloring pages. You can download them and print them, though! http://mqandmrs.com/allpages
Queer ASL is a queer & transgender positive environment with a focus on creating a more accessible, affordable, and safer space for folks who want to learn ASL in Vancouver, BC.
Queer ASL focuses on introducing basic American Sign Language and Deaf culture to queer & transgender learners in Vancouver, BC. This involves learning the alphabet, finger-spelling, facial expressions, vocabulary, and grammar structures. At home, students access homework videos that feature the local queer signing community and a collection of Deaf culture information such as identity politics, cultural norms, history, current topics and issues, etc. The courses have a voice-off policy in order to both be respectful of signing spaces and to immerse ourselves in a signing environment. People who complete Queer ASL classes are able to carry basic conversations with signing queer folks and have a better understanding of the deaf/signing community.
The courses are taught through using powerpoints, videos, demonstrations, dialogue practice via partners and groups. All instructors are deaf and queer. Deaf queer guests (often folks featured in the homework videos) at times visit to provide additional perspectives and show students how we all have different signing styles. By having guests, this allows both signing queers and Queer ASL students become familiar with each other, thus building a bridge.
We generally have 3-4 cycles of classes per year. To keep an eye on upcoming classes, email us at [email protected] to be added to our mailing list. Also, liking our facebook and keeping an eye on our events can be helpful.
Do you happen to know a sign that exists or would work for a gender nonconforming parent? I am looking for a sign my son can call me as we start to teach him sign, and I identify as transmasculine genderqueer.
I have no idea. Followers, do any of you know of a sign for “parent” that would make sense in this situation?
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I love this and I like that you don't shy away from anything. i really love this.
Thank you!! I am hoping to do more of these one day. Thanks to everyone who has sent in applications in the last few months.
Photos and final product for Mq. & Mrs.’s amazing lgbtq coloring book for kids.
Model : Alicia Michele
hey i made gifs of these so that ppl can see what they look like !! since sometimes just seeing pictures doesn’t always get the sign across
queer:
bi:
transgender:
gay/lesbian:
Awesome
For all my deaf / mute LGBTQ followers or anyone trying to learn
@lattecapitalism have you seen the gifs? super cool addition.
so I'm queer & genderqueer and I would totally love to be a part of the modeling but I don't have the nicest camera and I'm wondering what the requirements for cameras are???? idk of this makes sense
You just need like, a phone camera or webcam. This project is still on hiatus so I can focus on school -- but some day I will go through all of the applications and start it up again!
Hello! My name is Allison and I'm a student at UNC-CH. As part of an event I'm planning on campus (a social justice slumber party!) I was hoping to have a self-care coloring station. I love your artwork, and was wondering if you allowed the coloring pages to be used at events? Thank you!
Yes! Actually, Project Dinah at UNC Chapel Hill has used our pages before as an activity at an event. Print out and use whatever you like! These pages are open to be used non-commercially by anyone, forever. Print out 10,000 pages for your nonprofit event. Bring them to your kid's preschool. Ya just can't sell them.
unprofessionalamber said: It sounds like they’re asking about the ASL sign for asexual
Oh, you're probably right! I couldn't find a sign for asexual, so I assume it's usually fingerspelled. Any d/Deaf or HOH followers want to chime in?
I apologize if you've already answered this, but what is the sign for asexual?
What do you mean, sign? Sometimes people use a triangle with a gray gradient on it. Are you asking what the flag looks like?
I saw the Model Callout you posted earlier, and I'm curious. Are you looking exclusively for models that identify as female or just generally lgbtqia+? When you say indigenous, does that include white countries (e.g. Native Germans in Germany)? What do you classify as white? People who are Caucasian (which actually includes Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia without regard to skin tone) or are you talking about people with fair skin?
I don’t even know where to start untangling and addressing what you’re asking, so I’ll just say this: Anyone who is not straight or not cisgender or is marginalized in similar ways (so yeah, lgbtqia+) — can apply to be a model. You can be a white cis rich gay German man if you want. Like I said, I can only go through applications slowly, so it might be a while until I get to yours, but you are welcome to apply.
Hi! I'm a pansexual deaf trans queer guy. I saw your ASL dictionary for mq. & mrs.- very cool! I'm curious, are you deaf too?
Actually, my sister is deaf. She lost her hearing to meningitis when she was 2. I was just 8 months old at the time, so I grew up learning american sign language right along with english. My sister and I are also both proud, queer, black women, so this project meant a lot to me.
Thanks!
I saw your photos for the queer coloring book. This was so informative! I'm studying to be an interpreter and I only knew gay and lesbian in ASL. Are you part of the Deaf community? It wasn't clear in the post. Anywyas, have a nice day!
Thanks, I’m glad you liked the post! My sister is deaf. My mother is a licensed ASL interpreter who works at a deaf school. And I’ve known sign language as long as I can remember. So sign language is a huge part of my life. Also, my sister and I are both queer black women, so it was a great opportunity to put those two parts of our identities together into a project involving art and youth.
Thanks!
Hi there, love all the info you're putting out! I was just wondering what (if any) the sign for asexual is?
Well signs like that vary a lot by location, so even if you find that some people have a sign for asexual, not everyone who signs will understand what you're saying. You can always fingerspell the word. But to answer your question, no, I don't know of one. Maybe one of our followers does?
the asl sign for “transgender" is basically the same as the sign for "beautiful" but signed at the chest instead of in front of the face.
so that’s cool.
this is my imperfect not-a-fluent-signer understanding but:
(based on a presentation by a deaf trans guy i was at in 2005 where he was promoting that sign)
it seems like that sign was invented and implemented by trans people over the last 10-ish years. before that the predominant vocabulary was “sex change” and then some deaf trans people were like “yo fuck that” and came up with the current sign, which starts off with the sign for “myself,” then motion that indicates both change and coming together, and ends with the closed hand held against the sternum.
and in the process it also mimics the sign for “beautiful”
and because of spatial grammar, things closer to the front of your body in ASL are generally more vital, more emphatic, more immediate, more present.
so it’s actually a case where the word coherently indicates “beauty” and “self transformation” and contains hints of the complete thought of “my self transforming, through a coming together of disparate factors, into something more real, immediate, and vital than I was before.”
so yeah. that’s just fuckin’ awesome.
and that’s just the way to express that concept now.
Hi Mq. & Mrs.! I was thinking about your modeling call-out, and was wondering if you'd accept an AFAB model submission. I'm a genderqueer AFAB person and saw y'all specifically ask for AMAB candidates. Just curious! Your project is wonderful :) thanks for doing what you're doing!
Yes for sure! That list of identities are examples of people we're especially looking for, but so long as you're either not-straight or not-cis you're welcome to apply.
do you have a kickstarter for this or something? do you physically publish these anywhere? i know of a few infoshops that would LOVE to sell these, and i would loooooooooove to have them too - for myself and the children in my life :) please please make a kickstarter or something! you are so awesome!
Hey, thanks for the nice message! We would love to do a Kickstarter or something similar someday. You can print the pages from the website now for free (and you will ALWAYS be able to), so if you have a printer you can already share them with the children in your life. It would be really cool to have physical coloring books, and that's definitely something we're considering for the future.
