When their eyes go to the interpreter, not the Deaf person, it’s erasure.

Written By Stephanie Todd

Micro-Stories series

I was signing.

They were voicing.

And every pair of eyes in the room turned to the interpreter instead of me.

A moment of communication became a moment of invisibility.

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