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adogadogonedog:

kimerakincaid:

the asl sign for “transgender“ is basically the same as the sign for ”beautiful“ but signed at the chest instead of in front of the face.

so that’s cool.

this is my imperfect not-a-fluent-signer understanding but:

(based on a presentation by a deaf trans guy i was at in 2005 where he was promoting that sign)

it seems like that sign was invented and implemented by trans people over the last 10-ish years. before that the predominant vocabulary was “sex change” and then some deaf trans people were like “yo fuck that” and came up with the current sign, which starts off with the sign for “myself,” then motion that indicates both change and coming together, and ends with the closed hand held against the sternum.

and in the process it also mimics the sign for “beautiful”

and because of spatial grammar, things closer to the front of your body in ASL are generally more vital, more emphatic, more immediate, more present.

so it’s actually a case where the word coherently indicates “beauty” and “self transformation” and contains hints of the complete thought of “my self transforming, through a coming together of disparate factors, into something more real, immediate, and vital than I was before.”

so yeah. that’s just fuckin’ awesome.

and that’s just the way to express that concept now.

alfieenochdaily:

‘I remember when I just got the script [for HTGAWM] I thought… this would be great. But I thought it was very implausible. The likelihood of it just seemed minimal. I’d done Harry Potter, and mostly theater afterwards, with little bits of TV. I was just thinking, what’s the next play that’s going to come along. So, doing a TV show in the States, playing an American character would be a jump from that. And it was shown on US TV… I had never worked on the accent before. For all sorts of reasons, it seemed really implausible. It has turned itself into normality at this stage. By second season, you acclimate, and it’s like sure, this really is what’s happening.’ 

perplexistan:

The 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards: The Hamilton Cypher 

lin: got got a grammy, got a tony, got an emmy / goddamit, somebody show me the way to the oscars

renee: ain’t i a woman / i’m sojourner like the truth

daveed: playing these dead presidents / i’m getting my reparations

(Source: http://www.bet.com/)

thefederalistfreestyle:

‘Hamilton’ Is The Very Model Of A Modern Fast-Paced Musical (Five Thirty Eight):

“Hamilton” probably has the fastest pace of any Broadway show, but it might not have the single fastest song. I compared the quickest verses in two of its fastest songs (“Guns and Ships” and “Satisfied”) with two patter songs from other shows, and although the “Hamilton” songs beat the “Pirates of Penzance” song “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General,” the nervous breakdown in “Not Getting Married Today” from “Company” kept pace.

I’d be inclined to give the speed prize to the singer who makes it through “Not Getting Married.” Although the Sondheim song is a hair slower than “Guns and Ships,” the actor has to keep up the pace for longer. (Lafayette, played by Daveed Diggs, gets quick breathers in “Guns and Ships” while the cast cheers him on.)

But “Not Getting Married” is the exception that proves the rule. In a conventional musical, the only songs that keep pace with Miranda’s lyrics are ones in which a character is hysterical. In “Hamilton,” what would be mania in any other show turns out to be the pulse of revolution.

I mean, it is true that Angelica’s not getting married that day…