ASL workshop Dirty Words and Safe Sex

ASL workshop
Dirty Words and Safe Sex
Wednesday May 30
6pm – 8pm
GayCity Calamus Auditorium
517 E Pike Street
$40

Have you ever met a hot Deaf person and all you could do was wave and grin? After this workshop, you should be able to flirt, negotiate safe sex effectively and get them in bed.
Join us for a fun evening of silent immersion. You will learn the signs for flirting, introducing yourself, and dirty words. This is the workshop you need to attend before Pride month. Prepare yourselves to meet Deafqueer!

 

Your instructor is Kero Grey

Foster “Kero” Grey was born in Virginia, MN to hearing parents. He became deaf at age two after a severe fever. His parents knew that he would benefit from learning sign language at an early age. At age three, they enrolled him in a preschool that provided him with a good foundation for learning to sign, read lips, and speak. Foster stayed in this school until the third grade.

At grade four, Foster transitioned to a deaf school in Faribault, MN, just south of Minneapolis. He remembers being shocked and amazed in seeing all of the other students communicating through sign and ASL. It was an important time in his life as it exposed him not only to language, but also to a great deal of community and culture. He stayed in this school, honing his skills in communication and absorbing different facets of deaf culture, until his graduation.

When looking back on that time, Foster has an amazing appreciation for his parents. Not only did they recognize the importance of an early education, but also the critical role that communication plays as it applied to that education. They gave him the opportunity to acquire the tools that he would need to become successful at communication, and in doing so, yielded to him those critical components of culture, community, and identity.

Foster moved from Minnesota to Seattle in 2003. In 2009, he began teaching ASL classes at several community hotspots throughout the city. For five years, Foster taught classes throughout the Seattle area, volunteering his time to teach both beginner and intermediate levels. In 2014, he retired from teaching. Now, in 2017, he is back teaching again and is excited to work with new students interested in the study of ASL, it’s culture and it’s community.