AAVSL (African American Venacular Sign Language) is wild because you really see the culture in it and if you are Black and hearing/don’t know ASL, you still understand it because so much of black communicatiom is nonverbal
Reblogging again because I didn’t know AAVE had a sign language equivalent even though now it makes so much sense.
I remember a bit ago there were a bunch of people trying to joke on an interpreter at a concert because she was getting really into her interpreting.
And it turned out she was specifically using AAVSL. One of the things that people point out regularly with AAVSL is that there’s a wider range of space for signing versus ASL.
