Category: Deaf & Deafblind Communities

• S3 E06: Travis Nguyen, interpreter & translator, on working with the deaf & deaf/blind communities, how intergenerational trauma manifests in day-to-day life, and more.

  

  Travis Giuse Nguyen (he/él) is an interpreter and translator born and raised in Southeast Texas. We talk about how trauma responses manifest in refugee communities, how the deaf do not benefit from incidental learning like hearing folks, and the struggle of being LGBTQ in an Asian American family.

  nuancespod

  July 23, 2023

  Asian American Guests, Beauty standards, Deaf & Deafblind Communities, Dementia & Alzheimer’s, Disability justice, Gay, intergenerational trauma, LGBTQIA+, Media representation, Mental health, translation/interpretation, vietnamese-american

  american sign language, deaf, deafblind, dementia, incidental learning, intergenerational trauma, language discrimination, language erasure, language skills, learn ASL, linguistic discrimination, nuancespod, ocean vuong, protactile, refugee communities, sign language, trauma responses, vietnamese american community, vietnamese diaspora