Rachel Kolb

May 20, 2024 | pbs.org | Rachel Kolb

By Rachel KolbAlison O’Daniel is a visual artist and filmmaker who works with sound, moving images, sculpture, and large-scale installations. She is the director of The Tuba Thieves, an experimental film that considers how listening can become a form of storytelling. O’Daniel identifies as d/Deaf. She grew up wearing hearing aids in a hearing family and she started learning American Sign Language (ASL) as an adult.

Feb 23, 2024 | stanfordmag.org | Rachel Kolb

When Mariella Satow’s high school closed during the COVID-19 lockdown, she took the opportunity to enroll in an American Sign Language (ASL) class. “I immediately fell in love with it,” she says. Several of her relatives have hearing loss, but none had learned to sign. Satow, ’27, searched for free educational resources that would help her gain proficiency in ASL, but she found few.

Nov 21, 2023 | paw.princeton.edu | Rachel Kolb

Senior lecturer Noah Buchholz, who is deaf, is well known on the ASL slam circuit Princeton students enrolled in Noah Buchholz’s newest class this fall are experiencing something never previously offered at the University: a semester-long course entirely focused on American Sign Language literature. Among other genres, they are discovering the world of ASL poetry, an art form Buchholz knows intimately after years as a poet and stage performer.

Sep 21, 2023 | thenation.com | Rachel Kolb |Linda Mannheim |John Lingan |Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Rachel Kolb: You begin this book by describing yourself as “an accidental, curious, and sometimes wary visitor” to the strange yet beautiful country of blindness. At what point in your career did you start to embrace disability and writing from this perspective? Did you fall accidentally into it, or did it emerge more organically? Andrew Leland: I had to wait until my blindness progressed to a point that felt worth writing about.

May 28, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Rachel Kolb

When I was a deaf kid growing up in the 1990s, I had two recurring fantasies. One was that more hearing people would learn American Sign Language. The other was that, one day, the whole world would be captioned, just like TV shows and movies. I imagined pulling on sleek sci-fi glasses, and voilà:The tangle of spoken words around me would unravel into beautiful, legible, written English.