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DEAF BIPOC PLATFORM & ACTIVISTS ARE CHANGING THE GAME

“It is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.” - Patsy Mink

DEAF BIPOC PLATFORM & ACTIVISTS ARE CHANGING THE GAME

Sometimes illustrations help to simply things.

Me: #DeafTalent Creator/BIPOC Platform (2012)
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Deaf coat-tailers: Colonize whitewashers/copycats/white saviors (2015 - now)
Me: Trademark #DeafTalent®️ & Deaf Talent™️ Brand builder/Owner (2020-2021) ®️®️®️💲
Deaf coat-tailers/entitled without rights (Now)
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Me: 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ 🙄✂️🥳😊🤣🤘🏽🔥💥💪🏽⚾️📺🎭🎬📚
Since they don’t do their own research, they need simple cartoon to get it, ya know?🤷🏽‍♀️
#deaf OR #talent is available to use, not #DeafTalent®️ or Deaf Talent™️. Create💡your own #hashtag brand! You got a 🧠, use it! Stop riding on someone else’s coattail. Don’t act like an entitled, disrespectful asshole.
What is a coat-tailer?
Someone who rides off the coat tails of someone else to climb the 'proverbial' ladder - career, social, etc.


Created another illustration for educational and awareness purpose.

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible. - Angela Davis
#DeafTalent Movement (2012) SPEARHEADED by Jade Bryan
ID of first illustration: BIPOC activists who appeared to be women.
BIPOC Platform (2012 - Active)
BIPOC Deaf Activists/Change Agents fighting for inclusion in film/TV
ID of second illustration: Diverse people (men/women with their backs turned.
Apathetic Deaf Bystanders in Deaf community (2012 - Active)
White Deaf People co-opted our platform in 2015
#DeafTalent® & Deaf Talent® become federally registered in 2020 & 2021 www.jadefilm.com
ID of third illustration: Black silhouette of angry mob
DEAF MOB MENTALITY
Coat-tailers/Copycats//White Saviors/Racists/Misogynists
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QUOTE ABOUT MOB MENTALITY
The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over. Provided too that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to. Nor need one try to stay within the limits of plausibility: on the contrary, the grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed. Nor is there any need to avoid contradictions: the mob never notices; needless to pretend to correlate what is said to some with what is said to others: each person or group believes only what he is told, not what anyone else is told; needless to strive for coherence: the mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake. - Alexandre Koyré

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