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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · May 10

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Indiana School for the Deaf, School for the Blind and Visually Impaired get 5 percent budget cut

Lawmakers celebrated after they said they protected K-12 education funding above all else as they faced a $2 billion budget shortfall. But the Indiana School for the Deaf saw its funding slashed by 5 ...

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · May 8

Honored to be featured by WFYI News on recent Deaf education legislation. Our voices matter. Decisions must include the Deaf community.
#DeafAdvocacy #ASL

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Advocate: Legislative changes to services for Deaf children reveals lack of community engagement

Lawmakers made several changes this session to how the state delivers services to deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Advocates said they weren't included throughout the process, leading to a bill they...

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · May 3

And they are the same people who just vote straight-party or straight-ticket (I think it’s ineffective)

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · May 2

@disrightswatch.bsky.social reach me out if you want details

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · May 2

Indiana just erased the Board of Interpreter Standards (BIS) from law through HB1474. Deaf-led oversight is gone. Interpreter standards now rest in agency hands—with no guaranteed community input. This weakens our access and our rights.

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 28

“The Crip Camp” on Netflix is a good documentary about disability rights!

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 27

“Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.”
– President George H.W. Bush, signing the Americans with Disabilities Act, July 26, 1990.

The shameful wall of exclusion was supposed to fall.
But today, piece by piece, it’s quietly being rebuilt.

arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 23

I support diverse access tools. My concern is when “choice” is shaped by a system that still centers oralism and medical views. That legacy of eugenics hasn’t disappeared—it still influences what’s offered, funded, or seen as “success.”

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 23

Eugenics dominated deaf world since 1880, they are still do same thing with deafness with medical views and sadness, all of that. Oralism, Cochlear Implants are widely accepted today. Let’s fight eugenics and ignorance together!

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 19

#stopeugenics

A.G. Bell erased Deaf lives by silencing sign language and using his family as proof of oralism.
The Kennedy family erased Rosemary—RFK Jr.’s aunt—by institutionalizing her and hiding her away.

Now RFK Jr. speaks about autism the same way: as a threat, not a life.

When you ignore the humanity of your own family, you build platforms on silence. And history repeats.

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 19

Apparently some Deaf people refuse to see the common between RFK jr and AGBell 😡

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 18

Before oralism (1880), ASL helped Deaf kids thrive. A.G. Bell ignored the evidence and pushed assimilation. Today (2025), autism studies face similar dismissal. Different era, same playbook—fear over truth. #DeafHistoryMonth #AutismAcceptance @autisticadvocacy.org

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 17

I’m Deaf and no kids! But I can talk with you!

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · Apr 17

I need you to look at the text of RFK's remarks last night beside a description of the 1941 German film "I Accuse" and understand how calculated this is.
RFK:

Text: "Autism destroys families, and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children. These are children who should not be suffering like this," Kennedy said. "These are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, they'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted."

"We have to recognize we are doing this to our children, and we need to put an end to it," he added.

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 8

Indiana’s AG office confirmed the state’s role in a lawsuit involving Section 504. While states say they aren’t asking to overturn the law, courts can still rule beyond that—like in King v. Burwell. Legal outcomes may affect how Section 504 is interpreted.

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 6

He brought a gun to a peaceful protest in Lafayette, IN.
Police said it was fine because “he didn’t point it.”
Apparently the Second Amendment matters more than the First—if you’re MAGA.
#50501 #handsoff

A tense moment during a peaceful protest in Lafayette, Indiana. A man in a white “MAGA” hat and sunglasses is holding a large firearm with both hands. In front of him, a protester wearing a rainbow-colored words on a black shirt has his arms raised, appearing to de-escalate the situation. Peaceful demonstrators with signs can be seen in the background.

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iMephisto @imephisto.bsky.social · Apr 6

Post by Themme Fatale ‪@bimbolaureate.bsky.social‬

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Apr 3

Early intervention for deaf children is being handed over to state agencies.
Legislation is backed by LillyPAC.
“Deaf Specialist” is being defined by people who favor LSL—not Deaf culture.

This isn’t progress.
This is erasure.

This is what Indiana is doing to the Deaf community.

Say no to SB473

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · Apr 2

I need the press to stop saying, "This isn’t what people voted for."

No.

It IS exactly what they voted for.

They just didn't vote for it to happen to THEMSELVES.

They were okay if it was going to happen to "THOSE people."

And THAT is the problem.

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Mar 29

Worse part is that public schools that teach ASL uses the test score system ran by hearing people

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Mar 24

Indiana GOP policies on Deaf education benefit who?

Hear Indiana, AGBell-afflicted.

Their goal? Deaf Cultural erasure and assimilation.

GOP Party or Deaf Identity—you can’t choose both.

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Mar 22

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Mar 22

Eugenics never stops adjusting to the system. #stopeugenics #deafsky

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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · Mar 20

They made the world so inaccessible that people with disabilities stopped participating. Now, the DOJ is using that as an excuse to remove ADA guidance.

Create barriers → fewer disabled people engage → claim accessibility is unnecessary. This is how rights get eroded.

#ADA #DisabilityRights

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · Mar 20

The important thing to understand about the ADA is it doesn't enumerate accommodations within the law. It just refers people to the guidance created by the Access Board. So removing the guidance is a workaround that hollows out the law without repeal.

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · Mar 20

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