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This is one of the stranger questions, but us there an ASL sign for non-binary?

There’s absolutely nothing strange about a D/deaf or hoh or CODA (or whomever) nonbinary person wanting to know how to communicate their gender to others!

Bear with me here because this question got me really excited, so I’ve got a few signs here. ^^

From here: http://nonbinarybisexuals.tumblr.com/post/146009725918

This is trans: You start with your hand open by your shoulder/out in front of you. Bring your hand towards your chest while closing your hand/fingers in a loost fist with your fingers pointed up.

Now from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu8ZlW-2Nfc we can see nonbinary!

I fully recommend the whole video, as it seems like many of the signers may be nonbinary and they share all sorts of awesome gender and sexuality terms (trans, cis, gay, lesbian, bi, pan, queer, nonbinary, bigender, genderqueer, genderfuck, gender neutral, third gender, demiboy, demigirl, two-spirit, genderfluid, androgynous, gender neutral, feminine, and masculine!).

Now in both the instances where two signers talked about the word nonbinary (around 4:25 and 13:20), they both fingerspelled out nonbinary first. The first signer only fingerspelled it, I believe, but here is the official sign for nonbinary shared in the lexicon:

This sign is the signs for “not” and “binary” put together. Make a thumbs up and move your thumb from under your chin to away from your chin. Then make a peace sign with both hands (make a fist without your pointer and middle fingers) and tap your matching fingertips together.

Finally, the signer in this video (starting at the appropriate spot): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLWJQc7APJc&t=0m50s offers a few choices to sign nonbinary, but they’re basically all variations of saying “not binary”, and I personally think the above gif’d option is smoother for achieving this.

As well, another simple option would be to just fingerspell an “n” and then a “b” as shorthand for nonbinary.

I hope you found this helpful!

~ Mod Sock

P.S. As an aside, I went checking a few other videos to look for other signs for nonbinary, and I found this video with “asexual” in it, which excited me, so I’m also linking it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfPAkVGWtMY (It’s also got stuff like transitioning, coming out, gender expression - some goodies!)

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This is how I sign the Shema

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TOP 10 Basic ASL PHRASES For Beginners | Learn American Sign Language | Nyle DiMarco [x]

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Put together an ASL packet to give out at Clexacon!

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**Please Share!!!**

Hello, friends of the internet! My name is Rose, and I’m a sophomore American Sign Language Interpreting student. I, along with my project partner Bre @quintin-thefinn , have been working on a Social Justice Action Plan for our ASL 2010: Deaf Culture class, and now it is time to put our plan into action!

To help us with our project and expand the knowledge of ASL and Deaf culture, please share this list so we can reach as many people as possible! Thank you so much for your time and we hope this list benefits you and many others!

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BASIC PHRASES IN AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE!!! 

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Top 10 Basic ASL you need to know!

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Tips on writing sign language

Disclaimers: while I have been learning ASL (American Sign Language, I am not yet fluent. Also, I am not deaf. Both of these things being said, I have been learning ASL for nearly a year and I’ve been doing independant research about the language itself and the Deaf community. What I’ve listed below are things that I have learned from my own personal experience signing, what I’ve learned in my ASL class, and what I’ve learned from my independant research.

1) When you write signed dialogue, use quotation marks and everything else you would use for any other type of dialogue. Yes, I know they didn’t do that in the Magnus Chase series, but many Deaf readers were made uncomfortable at the choice to depict sign language as not speech. Establish early on that the character signs and then use tags such as “xe signed,” or “hir motions were snappy with irritation.”

2) Without facial expressions, someone’s signs are going to be almost meaningless. All of the grammar is in the face, as are some descriptors. For example, if you can’t see a character’s face, and you’re only looking at their hands, the signs would be the same for the statement “Xe doesn’t have dogs.” and the question “Does xe have dogs?” 

3) There is no such thing as fluent lipreading. The best lipreaders in the world can only understand about 70% of what’s being said, and factors such as darkness, the presence of mustaches, lack of context, and a bunch of other common things can easily lower that ability. If someone’s lipreading, they’re taking little pieces of what they can lipread, and stitching together context and other details to get a general picture of what’s going on, but there’s still always going to be holes.

4) If you’re writing a character who can’t hear, know the difference between deaf (lowercase d) and Deaf (uppercase D). The medical term for not being able to hear anything is deaf. People who use their deafness as part of their identity are referred to, and refer to themselves as Deaf. They are part of the Deaf community.

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ASL sign names have to be given to you by a deaf person. Sign name is usually based on a person’s personality and have to follow ASL grammatical rules. And, ASL sign name isn’t like English name. Two person with English name ‘Jonathan’ don’t have the same sign name. So that’s why we deaf people cannot come up with a sign name on a spot for a stranger. We have to get to know them first, and getting a sign name is a huge deal- it’s like naming a baby hah.

Also, yep, Brits have different sign language than US. I couldn’t really understand a deaf brit signing. ★ Patreon ★ Tapastic ★ Twitter ★ Facebook ★

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Photos and final product for Mq. & Mrs.’s amazing lgbtq coloring book for kids.

Model : Alicia Michele