I Am A Camera

history

Did you know that in the '90s I had this weird big cult audience as one of the first-ever online confessional writers on the planet publishing to mobile devices? Back before the word “blog” had even been invented? And while I was touring as a slam poet and having all these crazy drug and sex adventures? Yeah, neither do most people anymore, but a recent Mastodon friendship reminded me that those old fans are still out there. Today, a quick look back, in preparation for perhaps writing an entire memoir next year on the subject.

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In which an editor explains to English as a Second Language students the loaded history of this nostalgic term

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In which a professional book editor explains to ESL students the difference between a group of mediums and the journalism industry, despite both being called the same word

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In which a professional book editor teaches English as a Second Language students the concept of “evolving” language, by looking at the history of this foreign term's American spelling

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In which a book editor addresses international students learning English about the grammatically correct way to refer to gender in Woke America

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In which I resurrect my blog for the 23rd year in a row, and go back to a '90s style of shorter posts about more specific subjects

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Today, an extended look at the most crucial event to define the modern Deaf community, and the reasons it's considered so important

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A field report from my very first Chicago Deaf community social event, plus some sobering thoughts about my fellow late-deafened adults

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

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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”

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