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Lydia

@LydiaGratis

Founder @SavedByTheSign | @GaisceAwards board & @NWCI Women's Forum Member | @EUDYouth former President |📚Anthropology & Int’l Development

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I think we’re beyond the “raise awareness” stage of practically every major social issue.
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Canva and paint still exist. They're free / very affordable. Even Adobe has some affordable packages. Why are people insisting on using ai for promotional material when their audience doesn't like it????
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You can’t create inclusive spaces without asking people what they actually need. Lydia Gratis is doing what whole institutions won’t, listening to communities first. 🎬 Watch on Youtube.com/gormmedia #DeafAdvocacyIreland #Accessibility #DeafVoices #CommunityLedInclusion
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Sending best wishes to Dead Centre and the company of Deaf Republic ahead of their opening night at Dublin Theatre Festival this evening ✨ 📸 Johan Persson
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Don't miss the BSL Conference 2025 with amazing speakers like: ✨Lydia Gratis, ✨Peter Brown, ✨Helene Jarmer, ✨Mhairi Simpson & Gem Fountain! 📅 17–18 July 2025 | 📍 The Queens Hotel, Leeds. Get tickets now: bslconference.org.uk #BSLConference2025
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We had a fascinating presentation by Lydia Gratis - Saved by the Sign - Strength in Diversity: Securing the future of diverse identities in the UK Signing Community. #BDAConference2025 #Thefuturestartswithus
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Honouring the Deaf Black community! Check out Lydia's great presentation at the BSL conference in Leeds: vimeo.com/1123557751/6c1eb6b… #BlackHistoryMonth #DeafCommunityUK #SignLanguage #UKDeafCommunity #Britishdeafassociation #BSL #DeafBlackExcellence #DeafCulture
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A powerful production exploring deafness & resilience, told through Irish Sign Language, British Sign Language, & spoken English @ZainabBoladale meets the creative team to discover how deaf & hearing artists are bringing it to life on #RTENationwide Friday 3rd October @RTEOne 7pm
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Inclusion starts with a question: “How can I communicate with you?” @LydiaGratis reminds us that access isn’t always high-tech, it can be a gesture, a note, a message. 🎬 Watch full episode: youtube.com/gormmedia #InclusiveCommunication #DeafAccessibility #Intersectional
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Organisations love the illusion of inclusion, posting statements, commemorating days, and staging diversity campaigns, while doing nothing to dismantle the structures that keep people excluded in the first place.
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When the illusion wears thin, they don’t course correct, they retreat, waiting for the next moment to resurface with the same empty promises.
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And when the illusion is challenged, they respond not with change, but with replacements, ensuring there are always willing voices to uphold the performance and maintain the illusion.
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Photo album update, had to let this one sink in 1st♥️ Thank you to @Black_andirish for honouring me with the 2024 Educator of the Year award. Being recognised by my community for the social justice and social inclusion work we do at @SavedByTheSign means everything.
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Teach your kids about Thomas Sankara, Samora Machel, Julius Nyerere, Amilcar Cabral. Teach your kids about Africans who achieved great things.
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Congratulations Dr Sandrine 🥂🎉♥️
Dr Sandrine Ndahiro (@NdahiroSandrine) profile pictureDr Sandrine Ndahiro@NdahiroSandrine15 Nov 2024
Today I successfully defended my PhD thesis where I passed with minor corrections 😭😭😭 Thank you to my amazing examiners and chair. Thank you @EnglishAtUL for incredible 10 years. Officially Dr. Ndahiro 🥂
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There’s something to be said about the way Black people are continuously brought on to TV debates about racism but lack opportunities in the TV industry...
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A big part of my life involves discussing public safety—attending panels, giving/viewing presentations. Yet, during every Q&A, it’s often the same privileged voices dominating the conversation, focusing on ‘street people,’ property, and ‘crime.’
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6million women, children & men have been killed in Congo over the span of 25 years. 6 million. That’s 240,000 a year, 20,000 a month, 5000 a week, 714 a day. Half of these numbers have been children. All so that the west can make phones, tablets, electric cars, planes for cheap.
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My grandma really just said on a call, "When you come home 🇿🇦, bring me your old hearing aids!🤭😂" Ma’am! It don’t work like that! 😂😂😂 Then she goes, “Sometimes I don’t hear anything, I just nod and say yes to people. This your world?”
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My lifelong obsession w/ anthropology is why I can’t believe in “Forgive & forget” rhetoric. All the solid research shows a mistake that is not acknowledged… is almost destined to be repeated. That’s why 15yrs ago I started teaching my clients to say “Evolve or stay gone” instead. And the shift I’ve watched it cause in how they re-engage w/ people is top tier. 🤌🏾✨
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