{"id":1374,"date":"2006-10-19T19:56:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2006-10-19T19:56:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T19:56:14","slug":"purity_test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"Purity Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has a great write-up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/18\/AR2006101801905.html\">deaf culture and identity politics<\/a> in the context of the ongoing protests at Gallaudet.&nbsp; Many students are arguing that the woman in line to become the college&#8217;s next president isn&#8217;t &#8220;deaf enough&#8221;.&nbsp; They want to ensure that Gallaudet remains a place where deaf culture continues to flourish, free from the influences of the hearing world.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t pretend to have a full appreciation of the nuances of the debate, but I admire the passion and conviction of those students.&nbsp; They are willing to risk arrest in their efforts to define themselves and their collective.&nbsp; The disability community could sometimes use a dose of that pride and self-assuredness.&nbsp; We spend a lot of time explaining what we are not&#8211;sick, helpless, unemployable, heroic&#8211;but disproving negatives can be a wearying business.&nbsp; But the vast range of disability experiences make finding a common identity nearly impossible.&nbsp; Then again, the situation at Gallaudet seems to suggest that the deaf have the same problem.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post has a great write-up on deaf culture and identity politics in the context of the ongoing protests at Gallaudet.&nbsp; Many students are arguing that the woman in line to become the college&#8217;s next president isn&#8217;t &#8220;deaf enough&#8221;.&nbsp; They want to ensure that Gallaudet remains a place where deaf culture continues to flourish, <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1374' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}