Ip Man Yi Trada
Trada Ip became interested in knitting as a primary student. She was taught fundamental knitting skills by her Home Economics teacher in secondary school, and continued on self-learning with knitting books. After her blindness, she had no choice but to give up this interest because it was difficult for her to go to the woollen yarn shop.
In 2009, with the support of volunteers from an organisation for the visually-impaired, she picked up knitting once again, and even participated in the knitting category of The Hong Kong Abilympics in 2010 and 2014 held by The Hong Kong Council of Social Service. In 2017, she relearned crocheting at the Jockey Club Inclusive Arts Studio in Shek Kip Mei so that she could further develop her interest in crocheting. Afterwards, she taught knitting for people with visual and hearing impairment in an inclusive organisation. She proudly knitted 20 sets of teapots and coasters for a charity sale in Christmas 2020.
Trada Ip and her guide dog Rally
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Lilit Marcus
Lilit Marcus is an American journalist currently based in Hong Kong. She is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) who was raised to be bilingual in American Sign Language and in English. Her reporting on Deaf communities and topics has appeared in CNN, The Atlantic , the Wall Street Journal , Condé Nast Traveler , Buzzfeed, and more.
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Arthur Thompson
Arthur Lewis Thompson is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on how people learn and use imitation in spoken language and visual language (sign languages, hand gestures) to depict the world around us. He obtained his PhD in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong and his MPhil at the University of Cambridge. He is an active member of Write or Die, a writing collective on Lamma, and maintains a newsletter.
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Zephyrus Tsang
Zephyrus Tsang (he/him) is a gay transgender man based in Hong Kong. He is the vice chairperson of the local transgender youth organisation Quarks. Quarks aims at providing peer support for the younger generation of the transgender community, and promoting their visibility to the general public.
Zephyrus is also a doctor currently working in local public hospitals. He is a steering committee member of Hong Kong LGBT Medical Society, which encourages LGBT+ diversity and inclusion among healthcare professionals, and promotes LGBT+ related healthcare and education in Hong Kong. He is also an amateur penman, an avid lover of fountain pens and ink.
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