Here Comes Mavo! First Childrens TV series for deaf kids: Woke or Not Woke?

[Joes Place]

Melissa Malzkuhn is third-generation Deaf and the founder and director of the Motion Light Lab at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. Her lab is creating ASL-focused children’s media that is made by and for the Deaf community, using motion capture technology, avatars, animation, and signing storytellers. She talks with guest host Arielle Duhaime-Ross about ASL access in childhood, the science of learning, and how she’s creating “Here Comes Mavo!”—the first animated TV series with signing characters.

Inclusivity and Diversity​

Our goal with this project is to bridge experienced industry animators, storytellers, writers, and artists with Deaf animators, storytellers, writers, and artists to deliver the world's first animated TV series
with 3D signing characters.

HERE COMES MAVO! AN ANIMATED SERIES FOR ALL CHILDREN

A groundbreaking children's animation project

herecomesmavo.com

How Signing Characters Help Deaf Children Learn Language

A lab at Gallaudet University is creating television shows with signing characters to increase literacy in both English and ASL.

www.sciencefriday.com

 

[abby97]

Are you asking if the show is woke just because it was created for deaf children? If so, that is an asinine question. Is the show content actually woke, never seen it, do you think it is?

 

[Joes Place]

Are you asking if the show is woke just because it was created for deaf children? If so, that is an asinine question. Is the show content actually woke, never seen it, do you think it is?

Wow
A sane response from you!!!

 

[abby97]

Wow
A sane response from you!!!

All my responses are sane, they just don't come from an anti-American Marxist position.

 

[millah_22]

Is it woke in the original meaning of the word woke? No

Is it woke in the way conservatives use it? Maybe, who knows, anything they don't like is woke.

 

[EasyHawk]

Would need to know if any of the characters are deaf trans or drag queens.

 

[BelemNole]

Sounds super woke. Need to toughen up those deaf kids, not pander to them!

 

[EasyHawk]

On second thought - woke. Otherwise it would be targeted to deaf-mutes, deaf and dumb kids, or just the shortened "dummies" as they used to be called.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

All my responses are sane, they just don't come from an anti-American Marxist position.

Fascist responses are not sane and therefore, your posts are well beyond insanity.

 

[SB_SB]

This show will be a great example of DEI.

That statement should get the republicans all fired up and yelling woke.

 

[DooBi]

"Third-generation deaf"? I never knew deafness could be hereditary.