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  • 🇪🇷GötterdämmerungGotterdammerung@glitch.social
    Jul 5, 2026, 7:55 PM

    Unlike the 1st day, the exhibition area was closed except for delegates & workshop attendees, which meant foot traffic was less "conference buzz" & more "post apocalyptic" hallway. Those who stopped by were mostly other exhibitors or delegates wandering in between voting rounds & workshops, looking like they were just mugged in a hotel ballroom.

    As a compromise NAD organizers said we could move our booths upstairs to the evening events, which were open to the public.

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  • 🇪🇷GötterdämmerungGotterdammerung@glitch.social
    Jul 5, 2026, 7:56 PM

    Since my books already vanished into the hands of wiser, earlier buyers, I didn't see much point in hauling the corpse upstairs.

    But then I finally met David Call, one of the great Deaf artists of our time. He told me he's retiring from art due to age & physical limitations have made linoleum carving too punishing on the body. That hit pretty hard. The body always comes to collect. Still, he was warm, generous & encouraging. Said he was impressed with my art, that I "have it."

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  • 🇪🇷GötterdämmerungGotterdammerung@glitch.social
    Jul 5, 2026, 7:58 PM

    That kind of praise from someone like him is the sort of thing you pretend to accept calmly while your inner child starts tossing tables.

    The real highlight of the day, though, was my sister Dr. Rez's workshop on intersectionality - the uses, abuses & ritual overfeeding of a word everyone likes to throw around till it starts foaming at the mouth. And yes it was the showstopper of the conference.

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  • 🇪🇷GötterdämmerungGotterdammerung@glitch.social
    Jul 5, 2026, 7:59 PM

    She teamed up with the Dream Team of Deaf women professors: Dr. Hou, Dr. Stapleton-Ramirez, Dr. Garcia Fernandez, and Dr. Guerrero Cantor. The workshop included an activity on privilege & disadvantage using yarn, 10 volunteers & 2 people announcing their identities while the rest of the volunteers physically raised or lowered the string.

    Naturally, I volunteered. Naturally, my buddy caught my less-than appropriate remarks on video, cuz history deserves evidence.

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  • 🇪🇷GötterdämmerungGotterdammerung@glitch.social
    Jul 5, 2026, 8:00 PM

    By nighttime, at the ASL Slam, the signs sped up, the alcohol went down, & everyone got more aggressive, looser, more alive. Much fun was had. Much dignity was misplaced. One lady even informed me that she's my "plus one" for an upcoming wedding in Europe, as if I've been consulted & found irrelevant.

    Fair? Perhaps.

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