Accountability Among Interpreters

by Kat Vickers, NIC

August 2024

As a freelance American Sign Language-English Interpreter, one word I find floating in my mind before, during, and after an assignment is “accountability”.  What does that really mean to me?  Accountability to the D/deaf clients, the interpreting profession, our peers and hiring entities: where does it start? 

Before accepting an assignment, I run through a quick list of mental questions.  Here are a few examples...

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https://www.aslinterpreting.com/accountability-in-the-interpreting-profession/

A groundbreaking history of how women found synchronicity—and power—in water.

“If you’re not strong enough to swim fast, you’re probably not strong enough to swim ‘pretty,’” said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female swimmers—none more so than synchronized swimmers, for whom Williams is often considered godmother.

In this revelatory history, Vicki Valosik traces a century of aquatic performance, from vaudeville to the Olympic arena, and brings to life the colorful cast of characters whose “pretty swimming” not only laid the groundwork for an altogether new sport but forever changed women’s relationships with water. Williams, who became a Hollywood sensation for her splashy “aquamusicals,” was just one in a long, bedazzled line of swimmers who began their careers as athletes but found greater opportunity, and often social acceptance, in the world of show business.
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