Hosted Party On or Move On Entertainment and Deaf Crabilicious 2025
Philadelphia Eagles vs Washington Commanders
Tickets: $45 (includes unlimited food, 2 football pool drawings)
Coop Loft, 1025 Hamilton St, Philadelphia, PA 19123
@12:45p-4p – Tailgate food
@1p and 4:45p – Game Time
@6-7 – Social
Bring your own bottle
Cash App: $PartyOnOrMove and add memo: Game Day
You don’t need to call her when it’s “dinner,” say the word “ball,” or ask if she wants her “bone” to make this dog go nuts. Eowyn the corgi has leaped beyond the world of words and sounds, following her deaf owner, and barks for joy on seeing sign language hand signs.
Dog owner Emily Cassese, 32, was born deaf or near deafness but completely lost her hearing as she grew up. When she moved in with her husband, Derek, four years ago, she introduced a new form of communication into his life. They now navigate their marriage through the silent language of signs.
Derek, 34, an Orlando-based engineer for a packaging company, owned the fluffy, 9-year-old corgi Eowyn, with her short legs and huge ears, ever since she was a puppy and spent plenty of time training her. He says his corgi is “very intelligent” and “stubborn.”
Franklin Jones, Jr., is in a race against time.
Jones, a lecturer in Deaf studies at BU Wheelock, researches Black American Sign Language (BASL). He’s interested in its historical roots, linguistic intricacies, and cultural significance. But with each year that goes by since Black and white schools integrated, there are fewer and fewer people who know BASL, let alone use it to converse.
“It’s really critical to interview and take the opportunity to look at the experiences and history of the Black folks that are left, because many of them are dying,” Jones says. “So can we pull together those last bits of information that are still in our history from these senior members of our community, and ask about different sign production and what that looks like, before it’s too late?”
