Founder @SavedByTheSign | @GaisceAwards board & @NWCI Women's Forum Member | @EUDYouth former President |📚Anthropology & Int’l Development
🇮🇪
Joined January 2014
- Tweets32.7K
- Following1.7K
- Followers2.4K
- Likes41K
Lydia retweeted
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????
Lydia retweeted
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
Lydia retweeted
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
Lydia retweeted
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
Lydia retweeted
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
Lydia retweeted
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
Lydia retweeted
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
Lydia retweeted
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
Lydia retweeted
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.’
Lydia retweeted
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.
Lydia retweeted
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. 🤌🏾✨
Lydia retweeted
A “tribute” that will not land or hit the way he thinks it does because black women continue to be the most dehumanized group in the world. Especially dark skinned black women. No one’s value should be based on how much they labor for you. And many black women have said this.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Lydia retweeted
The policy that was implemented during the Berlin Conference is still affecting Africa till today. Our sole aim should be to eradicate those policies.
Lydia retweeted
Anti-Black racism is the common thread that unites so many regions of the world that even if another world war were to take place Black children, women and men would have to experience this everywhere they turned even in countries that some of us now call home.
