My name is Michael Fellowes and I’m the author of Scarlet and the White. I became severely deaf through meningitis at the age of fifteen and went to Mary Hare school to do my A levels. As an ...

I grew up watching science-fiction movies where everybody used video calls: on big screens in front of the space ship control desk or a little handheld devices. Most of us never expected to have ...

Deaf poets performing in British Sign Language (BSL) or Visual Vernacular (VV) thinking of entering the Forward Prizes for Poetry need to be aware of rule changes, including that poems must be ...

Hello everyone! My name is Anna, and I’m a coach working with Deaf and Disabled people, and parents/carers of Deaf and Disabled children. I know that the term ‘coach’ can feel unclear, so in this ...

Musical theatre is often celebrated as an inclusive art form—one that combines movement, storytelling, and music to create powerful shared experiences. Yet, behind the scenes, many of its systems ...

Valentine’s Day is all about romance: whispered sweet nothings, candlelit dinners, and long conversations that stretch into the night. For me—a deaf ...

In the mid 1980s I signed a publishing contract with Book Publisher A for my autobiography about deafness, which I titled The Dragonfly. It had a subtitle with the word ‘deaf’ in it somewhere so it ...

For many deaf people – me included – experiencing hate crime doesn’t start with violence. It starts with mockery. It can start as simple as someone watching your hands or your actions instead of your ...

The Lifeline episode announcing the charity’s selection aired on Sunday, 25 January, and focused on how SignHealth improve the health and wellbeing of all deaf people. It highlighted the ongoing ...

When I agreed to have a cochlear implant, I was told: this could change your life. The consultant said if all went well I would have better access to sound, feel less isolated and eventually feel more ...

If it wasn’t for my niece taking a seasonal job as a BSL ranger at Santa’s Lapland, it’s very unlikely I would have known such things existed. And in actual fact, the BSL provision hasn’t really been ...

I’m a hearing-impaired, Egyptian woman in my thirties. My journey towards hearing loss enlightenment has just started two years ago. That wasn’t because I lost my hearing at that time. No, I’ve been ...