Reading Voices

Hell yeah! I’ve recently watched a number of videos by or about Christine Sun Kim, all as build up to this. Imagine my delight when she herself appears on screen signing poetry!

There are so many venues for artistic expression in spaces, formats, etc that we overlook. Give me more of this. I’m reminded of this piece in Another Gaze that points in a similar direction.

Followed by Q&A with Davis, Chéry, and Auntie Chris.

There are rare moments when one experiences the promise of a truly pluralistic society. Here, the assembled audience was maybe ¼ Black (in a city with a small and decreasing Black population), maybe ⅓ signing. Multiple signers repeated the responses of the hearing speakers as well as Auntie Chris’s own signs. The audience signed applause at all of Chris’s responses. One audience member asked their question (more of a statement) in sign, and another blind audience member asked about audio descriptions in the physical release (it’s happening!).