by Leah Katz-Hernandez

Hello everybody!

First of all, welcome to the website! I’m extremely honored to have been chosen to serve as Deaf Youth USA’s new Executive Director from 2010 to 2012.

Our Last Stand by Megan Malzkuhn

Special interest groups with a lack of ethics are currently making their way through the Capitol in Sacramento to lobby for the bill AB 2072.  On one hand, in the legal prose, AB 2072 is about the parents’ choice for their Deaf newborns.  On the other hand, analyzing the jargon, it is about corporations’ eagerness to privatize human beings.

By Haley McBride

Imagine my hands making an O shape around my eyes keeping me closed in on one kind of vision. I am like a horse on a carriage. Horses have blinkers by their eyes in the city to keep distractions at bay. I am, through apathy and indifference, by choice and by society, blinded to these things that make me cringe and sigh.

By Joshua Weinstock

It’s easy to be resistant of the unknown, to a change, even a revolution.

I was skeptical to the idea of DYUSA at first. DYUSA to me was a bunch of people who liked to gather and complain to each other about how they couldn’t get involved with the National Association of the Deaf because they were too young. Afterwards, they would just go out and party hard – thanks to facebook – and that was the purpose of the camp. I never took the time to try and learn about DYUSA.