The second reason is that the hearing blind community did not yet have a term to describe sighted privilege and bias, other than the generic “ableism.” Our brother Bryen Yunashko has done important work in this direction. First, it places a finger on some of the ways the sighted Deaf community has excluded us.
More recently, however, “vidism” has gained some traction. Humphries, it didn’t receive a full discussion until after the hearing-sighted linguist Harlan Lane used it in his 1993 book “The Mask of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community.” Sighted Deaf people had always known that hearing society discriminated against them, but the new word suddenly made it much easier to identify and analyze.Īs is typical of our community, several DeafBlind folks proposed variations on the Deaf theme. That’s what happened to the sighted Deaf community with “audism.” Although it was first coined in 1975, by the Deaf scholar Tom L. But sometimes we do need a new word, and it can change the way we see everything. It is with a wry shake of my head on your arm that I find myself introducing a fancy new word.
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