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I know what you’re thinking. Does this town really need another film festival? If it’s the Deaf Rochester Film Festival, then the answer might be yes. This city’s rich tradition in the moving image coupled with its sizeable deaf population — the largest per capita in the United States — make it the ideal location […]

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Sign language has always been a means to an end for me. The first time I learned it I was 10, and I used it to advance my goal of total domination of my little brother. One March morning I woke up with laryngitis. At the time I had no idea it would last a […]

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