I Am A Camera

The personal journal of author and photographer Jason Pettus

ASL adventures: The Chicago Inclusive Dance Festival, and my first “signing in the wild.”

April 8, 2019

A field report from the annual Chicago conference on disabilities and the arts, plus a look at my first experience signing with strangers

He speaks! He speaks! ...Er, he signs! He signs!

April 3, 2019

In which I hold my very first conversation in American Sign Language, and channel the spirit of Harry freaking Potter

Those sexy deaf teens sure are courageous!

March 28, 2019

In which your humble narrator learns sign language for the first time, and accidentally discovers the smart, subversive pleasures of the Deaf-culture teen soap opera “Switched at Birth”

4,300 words that entirely explains LSD. You're welcome.

January 18, 2019

In which Michael Pollan convinces me to go on an LSD trip for the first time in 30 years, with pleasantly surprising results

I'm probably going to hell for loving Spotify so much, right?

January 7, 2019

A few thoughts on algorithms, middle-age, Hogwarts, autism and Fleetwood Mac

The Fediverse!!!

January 6, 2019

In Which Your Humble Narrator Stumbles Ass-Backwards Into The Newest Thing On The Internet, Which Might Turn Out To Be A Big New Thing, But Might...Um, Not

2018 was actually pretty great for me.

January 4, 2019

Unlike seemingly most people, 2018 was actually a pretty great year for me — today, a look at how it went, and my plans to build on it in 2019