American Sign Language

Liturgical inculturation in the twenty-first century has stalled for many reasons, one of which is the reality of the postmodern world. In an increasingly global, multicultural, and rapidly changing world, practices of liturgical inculturation that rely on a “structural-function…

Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of crip theory, stigma theory and intersectionality, I explore lesbian Deaf women’s experiences in the United States from 1945 to 2020. This is a span that includes several civil rights milestones affecting Deaf lesbians. Relevant events, …

Computer recognition of American Sign Language (ASL) is a computationally intensive task. Although it has generally been performed using powerful lab workstations, this research investigates transcription of static ASL signs using an application on a consumer-level mobile device…