Originally Posted by EyesBlueDeaf

http://www.afterellen.com/column/2006/4/28.html

Friday, April 28, 2006

L WORD CASTING NEWS
To kick off our first casting news for the next season of The L Word, Showtime announced today that Oscar winner Marlee Matlin has signed on to an 11-episode arc in the fourth season of The L Word. If you want to know more about the character she'll be playing, mouse over the rest of this sentence (I've put it in white text to protect those who want to avoid spoilers):she plays a deaf lesbian artist who takes a shine to Bette.

As a fan of deaf culture--one of my boyfriends in high school was deaf, although I was really more interested in his best deaf (girl) friend, which should have tipped me off then that I was gay, but that's a story for another day--I'm glad to see that The L Word will be giving some visibility to deaf lesbians. And it also gives the rest of us an excuse to brush up on our sign language (how do you say "this show is depressing the hell out of me?" in ASL?).