#oralist

[zebulontheplanet]

I really hate how people treat people. How people are ableist, and how people treat their own friends who have disabilities that differ from them.

I had a friend (not friend any more of course) say that our Deaf Mute friend, was dumb because he couldn’t speak. Of course, I was appalled. And of course, I called her out.

We haven’t really spoken since, and the whole thing is a mess and drama filled because I REFUSE to move on and be friends with someone who views someone like that.

I cannot stand people who think that it’s ok to think these things and say these things to me. I am NOT the person to even JOKE about stuff like that too. You will learn real quick. I don’t understand hearing people who say these things, and then actively try and learn ASL and/or involve themselves with the Deaf community. Why are you even NEAR the community if you believe these things? I don’t understand it. And I hate people with these beliefs.

Stand up for people if someone says oralist or ableist shit. Don’t stand there and let it happen. Call them out. Especially people who are the most vulnerable.

[afh2011]

AFA [Oralist]

Paris Ionescu, the Oralist at Pulse

Art fair art [AFA] is a mobile device, with economic apps. Whatever you're talking about when you're using an art fair is the more important cultural utility. Which is why I gave Paris my digital recorder at Pulse. To be a real art fair, an Oralist must be present. More than a multilingual witness situated at the correct place and time, like Liv, the Oralist is the AFA mobile device's GUI, translator and on/off switch. Without an Oralist, the art fair is no different from any other traveling show, like a gun show, or a computer show, or a car show. Come to think of it, Armory presented cars, computers and guns, too! Everything is art! As in any social media, the commentary is essential at the art fair. But the Oralist differentiates among the forms and users, datamines the domain, searching, compiling and making notations by voice command. His oralisms never require the Oralist to shut his eyes, or separate categories. All can be accomplished simultaneous to the spoken word performance. The Oralist, if he has the proper credentials (ours did) can move freely throughout the fair complex, from one to the next, limited only by his appetite, tolerance, stamina and the clock. Art fair NYC is an endurance contest for artsies, especially since so many parties and similar confabulations are staged concurrent to the AF circus. The circuits linking the separate AFA nodes are similar to the invisible requisite trajectories assigned planes coming in for landing at Ronald Reagan airport, for example. Too bad the underpaid, highly trained and exhausted workers fall asleep at the controls sometimes! Good luck! The Branded Leader is either dead, or has a debilitating mental illness, or both, one would assume, based on the comparative evidence as conjecture. In this respect America is beginning to resemble 80s Soviet or Eastern Bloc operational capacity, as the labor force is gutted and/or glutted, and profits soar upwards to the Blankfeins and Buffetts and Johnny Macks. Austerity. Oralists trump austerism.