Resources
An ever growing library of relevant apps, books, films, readings and alike for you to consume and share.
This page is open to all languages but for any material that is non-English, it will need to be supported by English or international sign translation.
All submissions are checked and vetted before being published. If you'd like go ahead and add or contribute to the library here, please don't hesitate in sharing with us by using the button below.
➡️ Accessibility & Disability
I Lost My Ability to Speak After Surgery—Here's What the Passy Muir® Valve Means to Me by Alice Wong (2023)
Advocating for Disability Justice in Design by Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield (2023)
Why we all need subtitles now by Vox (2023)
Care Tactics: Hacking an ableist world by Laura Mauldin (2022)
Disability Dongle by Liz Jackson, Alex Haagaard and Rua Williams (2022)
Is Your Organization Inclusive of Deaf Employees? by Roberta J. Cordano (2022)
Activating Captions by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Van Tomme (2021)
A Guide For Co-Creating Access & Inclusion by Taeyoon Choi (2021)
Vox Media has built a visual way to experience podcasts by Sarah Scire (2021)
Accessibility resources by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Van Tomme (2020)
28 Movies, Books, TV Shows (and More) That Explore Disability Culture by Deborah Leiderman (2020)
‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: 16 Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights by Julia Carmel (2020)
Before the A.D.A., There Was Section 504 by Julia Carmel (2020)
How to Make Exhibitions and Art Events Accessible by Emily Watlington (2020)
Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice by Carolyn Lazard (2019)
Critical Creative Corrective Cacophonous Comical: Closed Captions by Emily Watlington (2019)
The Radical Accessibility of Video Art (For Hearing People) by Emily Watlington (2019)
Ableism 101 by Ashley Eisenmenger (2019)
10 Principles of Disability Justice by Sins Invalid (2015)
Places to start by Disability Intersectionality Summit
Knowledge Base; Strategies for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communication
Resources by Disability is Diversity & Inevitable Foundation
📱 Apps
📚 Books
How to Communicate by John Lee Clark (2023)
True Biz by Sara Nović (2023)
Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco with Robert Siebert (2022)
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth (2021)
The Perseverance (2018) and All The Given Names (2021) by Raymond Antrobus
Continuum by Chella Man (2021)
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson (2021)
Once Upon a Twin by Raymond Luczak (2021)
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma (2020)
A coloring book by Christine Sun Kim & Roux (2020)
The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL by Carolyn McCaskill (2020)
Hearing Happiness by Jaipreet Virdi (2020)
Dancing in Odessa (2004) and Deaf Republic (2019) by Ilya Kaminsky
Made to Hear by Laura Mauldin (2016)
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon (2012)
Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway (2010)
I’ll Scream Later by Marlee Matlin (2010)
Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking (collected essays), Ed. H-Dirksen L. Bauman (2007)
Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood by Paddy Ladd (2003)
Sounds like Home, Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South by Mary Herring Wright (1999)
Deaf In America: Voices from a Culture by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries (1990)
ℹ️ Deaf 101
🎬 Documentaries, Films & TV Series
Echo (forthcoming 2023)
Name Me Lawand (2023)
The Tuba Thieves (2022)
The Circle: Season 5 (2022)
Eternals (2021)
Only I Can Hear (2021)
CODA film (2021)
Mao's Last Dancer and wife Mary Li on raising their deaf daughter, Sophie (2021)
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Crip Camp (2020)
Deaf U (2020)
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
CODA short (2019)
Sound of Metal (2019)
A Quiet Place (2018)
Deaf Child (2017)
Switched at Birth (2012-2017)
Kills on Wheels (2016)
Gangsta 2021 (2015)
The Hammer (2010)
Beyond Silence (1996)
Passport Without a Country (1991-92)
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
📹 Videos
Deaf Representation Is Improving in Film and TV, but Falls Short in Video Games, Animation and Kids TV by Jazz Tangcay (2023)
Celebrating the Deaf community on International Day of Sign Languages by YouTube (2022)
The hidden history of "Hand Talk" by Vox (2022)
Closer Captions by Christine Sun Kim (2020)
The Enchanting Music of Sign Language by Christine Sun Kim (2015)
STEM Signs by Atomic Hands
Sesame Street 687: The Little Theatre of the Deaf visits (1974)
✋ Interpreting
Friendterping: How Deaf and Hearing Friends Co-Navigate the World by Rachel Kolb and Timothy Y. Loh (2022)
Meet June the Certified Deaf Interpreter | Deaf@Work Series by NAD (2021)
BIPOC Interpreting Resources by Joseph C. Hill
American Sign Language Interpreting: The Size and State of the Marketing by Nimdzi (2021)
📄 Read
British Vogue Disability Portfolio by Sinéad Burke (2023)
Sign Language May Be Older Than Thought by Emilio Ferreiro (2023)
Korean deaf LGBT activists create new signs to express identities with pride by Lee Hae-rin (2023)
Fake sign language is spreading on TikTok. Deaf people are worried. by Amanda Morris (2023)
DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch by Andrew Leland (2022)
Hitting the Books: The decades-long fight to bring live television to hearing impaired viewers by Andrew Tarantola (2022)
Wet Writhing and Eldritch Gurgling: A Chat With the Stranger Things Subtitles Team by Savannah Salazar (2022)
Alexander Graham Bell's war on sign language, a radio interview with Katie Booth by Phillip Adams (2021)
Devoted to the Deaf, Did Alexander Graham Bell Do More Harm Than Good?, a review by Andrew Solomon on Katie Booth’s book The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness (2021)
Clevelander Charles “Chuck” Williams Has Been Fighting for Black Deaf Lives For More Than 70 Years by Erin Feher (2021)
American Sign Language Finds Its Spotlight by Jake Nevins (2021)
Activating Captions Magazine by Argos Arts (2021)
I was fortunate to get my vaccination, but the hurdles are too great for many other Deaf people by Sara Nović (2021)
Three Fictions by Sara Nović (2021)
The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use by Sara Nović (2021)
The COVID Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language by Sarah Katz (2021)
Work as Sign Language Interpreters is a Privilege, not a Right by Not An Angry Deaf Person (2021)
Black, Deaf and Extremely Online by Allyson Waller (2021)
Screening Deafness by Lennard J. Davis (2021)
The Resonance of Silence by Katie Booth for McSweeney’s 64: The Audio Issue (2021)
Against Access by John Lee Clark for McSweeney’s 64: The Audio Issue (2021)
Unsound: The Legacy of Alexander Graham Bell by CBC Radio (2021)
Lauren Ridloff is speaking truth to power by Lauren Ridloff (2021)
Music is not the antithesis to Deaf culture – audism is by Liam O'Dell (2021)
Mothering While Deaf in a Newly Quiet World By Shoshannah Stern (2020)
I Performed at the Super Bowl. You Might Have Missed Me by Christine Sun Kim 2020
Do deaf communities actually want sign language gloves? by Joseph Hill (2020)
You're Wrong About "Koko The Gorilla" by Mike and Sarah (2020)
“WAP” and the Fetishization of ASL by Sara Nović (2020)
White Deaf Privilege. Is white Deaf Privilege Real? by David A. Player (2020)
Longmore Lecture: Context, Clarity & Grounding by Talila A. Lewis (2019)
Tactile Art by John Lee Clark (2019)
The Deaf President Now Protest ep388 by The Dollop (2019)
A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue by Katie Booth (2019)
Navigating Laws and Accessibility in Exhibition Practices by Christine Sun Kim (2018)
Sensations of Sound by Rachel Kolb (2017)
Deaf West artistic director David Kurs: Why deaf actors should be cast to play deaf characters by Jessica Gelt (2017)
Why Sign Language Gloves Don’t Help Deaf People by Michael Erard (2017)
Sign of the Times by Sara Nović (2016)
Deaf People Don’t Need New Communication Tools, Everyone Else Does by Alex Lu (2016)
The Sign for This by Katie Booth (2015)
‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist by Amanda Cachia (2013)
The Rest is Silence by Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield (2012)
Black Deaf Culture Through the Lens of Black Deaf History by Benro Ogunyipe
🧸 Kids
📕 Learn
🌐 Linguistics
🏢 Businesses & organisations
⚙️ Services
Resources
An ever growing library of relevant apps, books, films, readings and alike for you to consume and share.
This page is open to all languages but for any material that is non-English, it will need to be supported by English or international sign translation.
All submissions are checked and vetted before being published. If you'd like go ahead and add or contribute to the library here, please don't hesitate in sharing with us by using the button below.
➡️ Accessibility & Disability
I Lost My Ability to Speak After Surgery—Here's What the Passy Muir® Valve Means to Me by Alice Wong (2023)
Advocating for Disability Justice in Design by Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield (2023)
Why we all need subtitles now by Vox (2023)
Care Tactics: Hacking an ableist world by Laura Mauldin (2022)
Disability Dongle by Liz Jackson, Alex Haagaard and Rua Williams (2022)
Is Your Organization Inclusive of Deaf Employees? by Roberta J. Cordano (2022)
Activating Captions by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Van Tomme (2021)
A Guide For Co-Creating Access & Inclusion by Taeyoon Choi (2021)
Vox Media has built a visual way to experience podcasts by Sarah Scire (2021)
Accessibility resources by Christine Sun Kim and Niels Van Tomme (2020)
28 Movies, Books, TV Shows (and More) That Explore Disability Culture by Deborah Leiderman (2020)
‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: 16 Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights by Julia Carmel (2020)
Before the A.D.A., There Was Section 504 by Julia Carmel (2020)
How to Make Exhibitions and Art Events Accessible by Emily Watlington (2020)
Accessibility in the Arts: A Promise and a Practice by Carolyn Lazard (2019)
Critical Creative Corrective Cacophonous Comical: Closed Captions by Emily Watlington (2019)
The Radical Accessibility of Video Art (For Hearing People) by Emily Watlington (2019)
Ableism 101 by Ashley Eisenmenger (2019)
10 Principles of Disability Justice by Sins Invalid (2015)
Places to start by Disability Intersectionality Summit
Knowledge Base; Strategies for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communication
Resources by Disability is Diversity & Inevitable Foundation
📱 Apps
📚 Books
How to Communicate by John Lee Clark (2023)
True Biz by Sara Nović (2023)
Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco with Robert Siebert (2022)
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth (2021)
The Perseverance (2018) and All The Given Names (2021) by Raymond Antrobus
Continuum by Chella Man (2021)
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson (2021)
Once Upon a Twin by Raymond Luczak (2021)
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma (2020)
A coloring book by Christine Sun Kim & Roux (2020)
The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL by Carolyn McCaskill (2020)
Hearing Happiness by Jaipreet Virdi (2020)
Dancing in Odessa (2004) and Deaf Republic (2019) by Ilya Kaminsky
Made to Hear by Laura Mauldin (2016)
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon (2012)
Mean Little Deaf Queer by Terry Galloway (2010)
I’ll Scream Later by Marlee Matlin (2010)
Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking (collected essays), Ed. H-Dirksen L. Bauman (2007)
Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood by Paddy Ladd (2003)
Sounds like Home, Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South by Mary Herring Wright (1999)
Deaf In America: Voices from a Culture by Carol Padden and Tom Humphries (1990)
ℹ️ Deaf 101
🎬 Documentaries, Films & TV Series
Echo (forthcoming 2023)
Name Me Lawand (2023)
The Tuba Thieves (2022)
The Circle: Season 5 (2022)
Eternals (2021)
Only I Can Hear (2021)
CODA film (2021)
Mao's Last Dancer and wife Mary Li on raising their deaf daughter, Sophie (2021)
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Crip Camp (2020)
Deaf U (2020)
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
CODA short (2019)
Sound of Metal (2019)
A Quiet Place (2018)
Deaf Child (2017)
Switched at Birth (2012-2017)
Kills on Wheels (2016)
Gangsta 2021 (2015)
The Hammer (2010)
Beyond Silence (1996)
Passport Without a Country (1991-92)
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
📹 Videos
Deaf Representation Is Improving in Film and TV, but Falls Short in Video Games, Animation and Kids TV by Jazz Tangcay (2023)
Celebrating the Deaf community on International Day of Sign Languages by YouTube (2022)
The hidden history of "Hand Talk" by Vox (2022)
Closer Captions by Christine Sun Kim (2020)
The Enchanting Music of Sign Language by Christine Sun Kim (2015)
STEM Signs by Atomic Hands
Sesame Street 687: The Little Theatre of the Deaf visits (1974)
✋ Interpreting
Friendterping: How Deaf and Hearing Friends Co-Navigate the World by Rachel Kolb and Timothy Y. Loh (2022)
Meet June the Certified Deaf Interpreter | Deaf@Work Series by NAD (2021)
BIPOC Interpreting Resources by Joseph C. Hill
American Sign Language Interpreting: The Size and State of the Marketing by Nimdzi (2021)
📄 Read
British Vogue Disability Portfolio by Sinéad Burke (2023)
Sign Language May Be Older Than Thought by Emilio Ferreiro (2023)
Korean deaf LGBT activists create new signs to express identities with pride by Lee Hae-rin (2023)
Fake sign language is spreading on TikTok. Deaf people are worried. by Amanda Morris (2023)
DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch by Andrew Leland (2022)
Hitting the Books: The decades-long fight to bring live television to hearing impaired viewers by Andrew Tarantola (2022)
Wet Writhing and Eldritch Gurgling: A Chat With the Stranger Things Subtitles Team by Savannah Salazar (2022)
Alexander Graham Bell's war on sign language, a radio interview with Katie Booth by Phillip Adams (2021)
Devoted to the Deaf, Did Alexander Graham Bell Do More Harm Than Good?, a review by Andrew Solomon on Katie Booth’s book The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness (2021)
Clevelander Charles “Chuck” Williams Has Been Fighting for Black Deaf Lives For More Than 70 Years by Erin Feher (2021)
American Sign Language Finds Its Spotlight by Jake Nevins (2021)
Activating Captions Magazine by Argos Arts (2021)
I was fortunate to get my vaccination, but the hurdles are too great for many other Deaf people by Sara Nović (2021)
Three Fictions by Sara Nović (2021)
The harmful ableist language you unknowingly use by Sara Nović (2021)
The COVID Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language by Sarah Katz (2021)
Work as Sign Language Interpreters is a Privilege, not a Right by Not An Angry Deaf Person (2021)
Black, Deaf and Extremely Online by Allyson Waller (2021)
Screening Deafness by Lennard J. Davis (2021)
The Resonance of Silence by Katie Booth for McSweeney’s 64: The Audio Issue (2021)
Against Access by John Lee Clark for McSweeney’s 64: The Audio Issue (2021)
Unsound: The Legacy of Alexander Graham Bell by CBC Radio (2021)
Lauren Ridloff is speaking truth to power by Lauren Ridloff (2021)
Music is not the antithesis to Deaf culture – audism is by Liam O'Dell (2021)
Mothering While Deaf in a Newly Quiet World By Shoshannah Stern (2020)
I Performed at the Super Bowl. You Might Have Missed Me by Christine Sun Kim 2020
Do deaf communities actually want sign language gloves? by Joseph Hill (2020)
You're Wrong About "Koko The Gorilla" by Mike and Sarah (2020)
“WAP” and the Fetishization of ASL by Sara Nović (2020)
White Deaf Privilege. Is white Deaf Privilege Real? by David A. Player (2020)
Longmore Lecture: Context, Clarity & Grounding by Talila A. Lewis (2019)
Tactile Art by John Lee Clark (2019)
The Deaf President Now Protest ep388 by The Dollop (2019)
A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue by Katie Booth (2019)
Navigating Laws and Accessibility in Exhibition Practices by Christine Sun Kim (2018)
Sensations of Sound by Rachel Kolb (2017)
Deaf West artistic director David Kurs: Why deaf actors should be cast to play deaf characters by Jessica Gelt (2017)
Why Sign Language Gloves Don’t Help Deaf People by Michael Erard (2017)
Sign of the Times by Sara Nović (2016)
Deaf People Don’t Need New Communication Tools, Everyone Else Does by Alex Lu (2016)
The Sign for This by Katie Booth (2015)
‘Disabling’ the Museum: Curator as Infrastructural Activist by Amanda Cachia (2013)
The Rest is Silence by Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield (2012)
Black Deaf Culture Through the Lens of Black Deaf History by Benro Ogunyipe
🧸 Kids
📕 Learn
🌐 Linguistics
⚙️ Services
A collaboration between artist Christine Sun Kim & designer Ravi Vasavan, made in 2020
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A collaboration between artist Christine Sun Kim & designer Ravi Vasavan, made in 2020
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), learn more about the licence.