Q 1. About 1200-1500 words. Discuss your own personal “status” and “labels”—particularly gender, race, class, sexual orientation, dis/ability. How has your life been affected by your status experiences? Try to think broadly about your status labels—do not only focus on your experience of being Deaf. However, you should address how being Deaf interacts with your other status labels (e.g. being a Deaf woman, being a Black Deaf man, etc.). Do you think one or more of these statuses is more salient for you than the others? Can you recall any explicit socialization experiences (e.g., an experience where you really understood “how girls act” or “what it means to be a boy”)? Have you ever discriminated against someone else? If you could change any of these ascribed status characteristics about yourself, would you? Do you think other people feel the same way? Make sure to also consider ways in which you have been privileged, not only ways in which you have been underprivileged.