Deaf Pride & ASL Hats

Deaf Gain is a term with authors and a date: Bauman and Murray developed it, first presenting it at Gallaudet in 2009, to name the unique cognitive, creative and cultural gains of deaf ways of being in the world. DEAF GAIN / NOT DEAF LOSS puts that idea on a hat. The same pride runs through family terms. CODA, child of deaf adults, is also the name of an organization Millie Brother founded in 1983, and the 2021 film CODA, which won best picture at the Oscars, made the word a household search. These Deaf pride and ASL hats are written from inside the community and in its register. Deaf humor wins by being Deaf: dry, visual, and about the wearer's own life rather than the hearing people nearby. Three badges, DEAF PRIDE, DEAF MOM and DEAF DAD, are the terms people type into a store. The sentence designs cover signing with your mouth full, signs that get bigger when the signer is right, the small talk a Deaf person gets to skip, and ASL working underwater, a nod to a diving article's line that the underwater world is truly the Deaf world. Universities including RIT and SDSU already sell ASL hats, which shows how many people want one. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one yourself, or give it to the Deaf parent, CODA or ASL classmate in your life.