Tessa Slaughter

Reunion review – this excellent British Sign Language thriller is an absolute revelation The performances – including that of Rose Ayling-Ellis – are outstanding, while the way it switches between spoken and signed language is utterly seamless. It feels shocking that it's taken so long for a show like this to exist

Reunion review – this excellent British Sign Language thriller is an absolute revelation

REUNION

Episode 1 on Monday 7th April 9pm BBC ONE

Warp Films Ltd and BBC Studios for BBC

Thanks to Oliver Scullion at Harkin and Toth for subtitling this widescreen trailer!

Children’s Welsh-language YouTube channel features BSL in their 100th video Dewin and Doti – a children’s Welsh-language Youtube channel – is about to release a special 100th video. The channel offers a variety of Welsh-language content for young children, with English subtit...

Dewin and Doti – a children’s Welsh-language Youtube channel – is about to release a special 100th video featuring British Sign Language

Sign the Petition Improve Registration, Regulation & Oversight of Deafblind Interpreters/Communicator Guides

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YouTube video by EDI Caucus Call to a workshop in BSL co-designing Virtual Reality scenario

Calling BSL users working in UK's research & innovation sector to a workshop in BSL on what a truly enabling workspace looks like.
If I wave my magic wand, what does this workspace look like? Its features and characteristics.
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Today is the start of the United Nations 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (GBV). This morning I was interviewed by the @bbcscotlandnewsnot.bsky.social Good Morning radio programme about our new @britishacademy.bsky.social funded project starting January 2025

This is very familiar…as a fluent signer and parent to deaf and hearing children, I was so often incensed by the medics’ and educators’ assumptions about developmental milestones and judging my children based on those hearing norms…

None of them are gluten free so I cannot comment. Except to say, shortbread?

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The upside of icy conditions? The Gritters are Oot!
Just have a chuckle at their names:

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That’s it, winter’s here in Edinburgh. The woollens are on and the glove collection is in play.
Cue sights of Scottish men wearing woolly hats with their shorts and t-shirts.

I enjoyed my foray over to Glasgow today for the British Deaf Association’s AGM. Great to see many familiar friendly faces and enthusiastically engaged deaf people.
I am glad to be home with my cuppa and feet up though…but now I have to prepare for our ASLI AGM next week!

What a bizarre workshop theme. As an interpreter, I find that patronising (to both deaf and interpreters) and worrying!
If we aren’t taught in our interpreter training how to determine salient points to relay then something’s gone wrong.
And can’t agree more with the boundaries and agency points.

last night I joined the Deaf Action (Edinburgh) Film Club for a screening of “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”.
It was a wholesome, joy filled evening watching a clever sweet funny film and feeling community. A good BSL natter too :)
There is much good in this world, and it was a reminder of that.