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Something Positive Lurks Inside

August 12, 2015 by Iben Blom Hansen Leave a Comment

Some positive news quickly led to the extraordinary experience of a stay in hospital. This blog, A Pain in the Poo Factory, tells the story Santha, my GP in Castlemaine, had some positive news for me. The poo test I’d done was positive. In fact it was so positive that she would book me in for […]

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The double and triple agents: deaf people in history

August 12, 2015 by Iben Blom Hansen Leave a Comment

 What did deaf people really think of the tight control of their community of 100 years ago? And what was it like for deaf gays and lesbians at the time? We really don’t know. Not yet.  I have been at the State Library of Victoria, browsing through old copies of the publication of what was […]

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The End Game

August 12, 2015 by Iben Blom Hansen Leave a Comment

A Pain in the Poo Factory 09 Gradually I became unplugged. The catheter went first, a short but unnerving experience which felt like one’s insides were being yanked out via a small tube through a very tiny opening. Next to go was my deals on wheels. I said goodbye to the pyramids and decided they […]

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Needledum and Needledee

August 12, 2015 by Iben Blom Hansen Leave a Comment

A Pain in the Poo Factory 07 I must have been about four or five years old when my mother took me into a building in Canterbury road, in Canterbury, in the inner-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It was probably a church hall. It was loud and noisy; steel filing drawers slammed and footsteps and heels […]

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Reading Red and not feeling so blue

July 30, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

A picture of Red Symons, a radio personality

If Red Symons’ reply to Deaf Victoria’s complaints about comments on interpreters on television is anything to go by, there’s just a little more understanding of why they are sometimes there. Ask hearing people about sign language, and they reply in much the same way – they love it. Some think it is beautiful, and […]

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What did that prawn really mean?

July 30, 2015 by admin Leave a Comment

A profile of a woman with a prawn on top of her ear

In the end, not all that much, other than perhaps a cautionary tale of failing to understand your market.     This is the advertising poster placed by the audiological services firm, Victorian Hearing, at the end of May 2015. It shows a startling picture of a profile of a woman with a prawn perched […]

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