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10/15/2026

👋 Spotlight: Matt and Kay Daigle — That Deaf Guy

They met in 1993 in a Deaf/hearing touring theater company. Years later, at a cartooning convention in Marceline, Missouri, they ran into Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse) and Mike Peters (Mother Goose and Grimm), who told Matt to draw what he actually knew.

What he knew was his own house. Matt is Deaf and low-vision. Kay is hearing, holds a master's in Sign Language Interpretation from Gallaudet, and has interpreted professionally for three decades. Their son Hayden is a CODA.

That Deaf Guy launched in 2009. It ran through 2016, paused while Matt earned a master's in Sign Language Education, and came back in 2021.

📖 Read at thatdeafguy.com.

That Deaf Guy by Matt and Kay Daigle

[Image description: A spotlight graphic showing a cartoon illustration rather than a photograph: a circular blue medallion ringed in orange, containing three comic-strip figures — a grinning man with reddish-brown hair in a green shirt, a brown-haired woman in a blue top with a round blue earring and her mouth open, and a child in orange between them with hands raised near the face and tongue sticking out. The background outside the circle is black. A white-line frame insets around the artwork. Lower-left text reads "Matt & Kay Daigle — Co-Creators, That Deaf Guy," with an italicized line: "Deaf Family Comic Strip — Since 2009." The Tive logo is in the bottom-right.]

10/14/2026

Charlie Chaplin kept a painting studio on his movie lot — for someone else. 🎨

It belonged to Granville Redmond, a Deaf landscape painter and actor. They met in Los Angeles around 1917, and Chaplin — the most famous performer alive, working in an art form with no sound — asked Redmond to teach him sign language and studied the expressiveness of how he communicated. Techniques Chaplin used in the films you know.

He didn't stop at lessons. Chaplin gave Redmond studio space on the lot, collected his paintings, and cast him again and again: the dance-hall owner in A Dog's Life (1918), roles in The Kid and The Idle Class, and the sculptor in the opening scene of City Lights (1931). Chaplin told The Silent Worker, a Deaf community magazine, about one Redmond canvas: "I could look at it for hours. It means so many things."

It's Disability Employment Awareness Month. A century ago, the biggest star in Hollywood didn't treat hiring a Deaf artist as charity — he treated it as recruiting. The craft ran in both directions, and Chaplin said so, in the Deaf press, on the record.

The screen's greatest physical performer studied a Deaf man's hands. That's not a footnote. That's the foundation.

[Image description: A black-and-white studio portrait of a young Charlie Chaplin out of costume — no hat, no mustache. He has dark wavy hair and is clean-shaven, seated in a checked tweed suit jacket with a dark tie, looking straight at the camera with a serious expression against a dark background. Small text at the top reads "Deaf Connection" above a white pill reading "WORTH KNOWING." A serif headline reads "The biggest star in Hollywood learned to sign." Centered lower text reads "Charlie Chaplin," "Actor + Director • City Lights, 1931," "Why it mattered: A Deaf artist's hands shaped the silent screen." The Tive logo sits at the bottom center.]

10/13/2026

💬 What is Tive Chat?

Tive Chat is where conversations happen! Connect with friends through DMs or group messages using text, video, or emojis — just like chatting in real life.

✨ With Tive Chat you can:
• Send text messages
• Share ASL video messages
• Use emojis and reactions
• Start group chats with friends

Stay connected with the community in an ASL-first space built for natural communication.

💬 Comment below: Do you prefer text or video messages when chatting?
👍 Follow The Tive App for weekly tips and updates!
▶️ Full transcript on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FbtGDF-tVzQ

10/11/2026

👀 Tru-biz—Tive is the one. One app. All the connection.

10/08/2026

👋 Spotlight: Rikki Poynter

October is National Captioning Awareness Month, and Rikki has spent a decade on exactly this.

She started as a beauty vlogger. In 2014 she posted her first video about being deaf, and kept going. Her campaign went after YouTube's auto-generated captions and how badly they mangle what people actually say. Lilly Singh watched her videos and started captioning her own.

Here is the argument she makes that nobody has a good answer to. Creators tell her captioning is too time-consuming. She is deaf. Captioning her own videos is harder for her than it would be for them — she has written about listening to a line ten times and still getting words wrong. She does it anyway.

If a Deaf creator can caption, the excuse runs out.

[Image description: A spotlight graphic with a photo of Rikki Poynter, a white woman with long light-brown hair and winged eyeliner, leaning forward with her elbows on her knees and hands clasped, looking at the camera. She wears a black t-shirt with large white block lettering, mostly hidden by her arms and hair, and sits in a cane-and-metal chair against a plain white wall. A white-line frame insets around the photo. Lower-left text reads "Rikki Poynter — Deaf Creator + Access Consultant," with an italicized line: " — A Decade on Captioning." The Tive logo is in the bottom-right.]

10/07/2026

One of the people who built the internet has worn hearing aids since he was thirteen. 🌐

Vint Cerf co-designed TCP/IP, the protocols that let separate networks talk to each other. He is careful about this: he credits his engineering background for that work, not his hearing loss.

But he is direct about email. When networked electronic mail appeared around 1971, he took to it immediately, because it replaced the uncertainty of a voice call with the clarity of text. The internet was built in a period of heavy email use, and he was one of the heaviest users.

He met his wife Sigrid at a hearing aid office in Los Angeles. She lost her hearing at three and lip-read her way through five decades before a cochlear implant in 1996. Twenty minutes after they switched it on, she called him. They had been married thirty years and had never once used a phone together.

He now spends his time on accessibility at Google — and points out that video calls have quietly reintroduced the exact problem email solved for him.

October is Disability Employment Awareness Month.

[Image description: A color photograph. An older white man, bald on top with a full white beard and mustache, sits in a gray suit with a patterned red tie and a red lanyard, looking off to his right with a slight smile. A microphone stands in front of him and a blurred meeting room is behind. Small text at the top reads "Deaf Connection" above a white pill reading "WORTH KNOWING." A serif headline reads "He co-designed the internet." Centered lower text reads "Vint Cerf," "Co-creator of TCP/IP • Google," "Why it mattered: Email replaced the voice call he couldn't trust." The Tive logo sits at the bottom center.]

10/06/2026

📲 What is Tive Mix?

Tive Mix is your ASL-first community feed — a space to watch, post, and share videos, updates, and stories with the Deaf community.

✨ Why you’ll love it:

Follow others and see what’s happening in your community
Share your own content in ASL
React and engage with posts you love

💬 Comment below: What’s your favorite way to use Tive Mix?
👍 Follow The Tive App for weekly tips and updates!
▶️ Full transcript on YouTube: https://youtu.be/k4PKknMO0LE

10/05/2026

One app. A lot going on — in a good way.

VRS. VRI. Calls in ASL. Contacts. Chat. Mix. Hub. Your people and your news, all in one place.

Open Tive. Pick what you need. Get on with your day.

Download Tive: https://tiveapp.com/join

10/03/2026

📲 You have to try Tive—everything you need, all in one place.

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10/01/2026

👋 Spotlight: Joel Barish

He has been to more than 100 countries looking for Deaf people, and he has found them everywhere.

Joel and his brother Jed started DeafNation in 2003. Out of it came No Barriers, his travel series in sign language, which is not a tourism show so much as a running argument that Deaf community exists in every corner of the planet and is worth going to see. He has gone 6,500 feet underground to mine gold alongside a Deaf South African miner. He has been out on the water hunting with Deaf Inuit in Greenland, in a village of about 170 people a few hundred miles from the North Pole.

Wherever he lands, he films the Deaf-owned businesses and works with local tourism offices on access for Deaf travelers.

Closing Deaf Awareness Month on what the month is actually about: there is no single Deaf community. There are hundreds, and they are connected.

[Image description: A spotlight graphic with a photo of Joel Barish, a middle-aged white man riding a road bike toward the camera, grinning broadly with his mouth open. He wears a red and black cycling helmet with sunglasses propped on it and a teal cycling jersey and shorts marked "NO BARRIERS" and "DeafNation." His right hand is off the bars giving a thumbs-up. Blurred green trees fill the background. A white-line frame insets around the photo. Lower-left text reads "Joel Barish — Co-founder, DeafNation," with an italicized line: "No Barriers • 100+ countries." The Tive logo is in the bottom-right.]

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