Season 3 · Episode 6
S3 E06: Travis Nguyen, interpreter & translator, on working with the deaf & deaf/blind communities, how intergenerational trauma manifests in day-to-d...
July 23, 202357m 20sExplicit
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Show Notes
GUEST BIO
Travis Giuse Nguyen (he/él) is an interpreter and translator born and raised in Southeast Texas. The son of a Vietnamese fisherman in the U.S. and the long-time resident of two minority-majority cities (Port Arthur and Houston), syncretism is the defining attribute of Travis's lived experience. In his free time, Travis practices self-care by playing boleros on his trusty ukulele, singing, sewing, and caring for his plants..
DEFINITIONS
- ASL: American sign language
- Hakka, Hokkien, Cantonese are languages originating from Southern China.
- Neurotypical/allistic people do not have autistic or other neurologically atypical patterns of thought or behavior. People who have ADHD, ASD are neurodivergent.
MENTIONED
- Ocean Vuong
- Protactile
TAKEAWAYS
- We naturally internalize traumatic experiences, and they shape how we view the world and interact with it, whether we are cognizant of it or not.
- When multi-lingual people get dementia, they will lose the last language they learned first.
- As people who hear, we have access to a lot of auditory information that we glean in passing everywhere we go because people around us communicate in a language we can understand. That is not a privilege that deaf people have, because very few people around them use sign language.
- Even if you don't know sign language, don't be intimidated to interact with deaf people.
- Many of us do not speak our cultural language because our parents were wrongly told that teaching us anything other than English would prevent us from becoming fluent in English.
- Getting to know people who have different lived experiences can help you see your blindspots.
- Discussing politics/religion only leads to arguments if we don't know how to talk about them.
- Self-determination is a myth. While we do have choices, our views, our taste, our personality is inevitably shaped by the people and media that surround us.
- Pulling yourself by your bootstrap is also a myth. No one can claim to be entirely self-made. No one can be part of society without using resources that they didn't create themselves.
CONTACT
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