Did a video of an ASL interpreter to go viral for the wrong reasons?

A video of ASL interpreter Kelly Kurdi at Lollapalooza got lots of shares last week—perhaps for the wrong reasons, Erin Bunch reports on the site Well and Good.

image from TikTok video by Guilherme Vital Senise da Silva

The TikTok video of the graphic lyrics to WAP posted by Guilherme Vital Senise da Silva received more than half-a-million shares through several accounts. Bunch says it could be considered fetishizing ASL, which "some argued, is a form of discrimination known as audism" or "essentially ableism." She quotes, Howard A. Rosenblum, CEO of the National Association of the Deaf, as saying:

The community appreciates interpreters that make it possible for them to have full and equal access but do not appreciate it when interpreters take their 'space' and speak for them. The media often focuses on those interpreters and how they express themselves without considering that the language and culture come from the Deaf community."

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