Special Interest Groups

BLeGIT QueerTerps
Official mailing list for the RID group for bisexual, lesbian, gay, intersexed, and transgendered interpreters.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BLeGIT_QueerTerps/

Interpreters and Transliterators of Color Listserv
African-American, Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native-American, and other minority status interpreters can discuss interpreting issues.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ITOCSIG/

Interpreters with Deaf Parents
Group falls under the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf. Mission is to promote better communication between interpreters who are Deaf and hearing, native signers and non-native signers and Deaf community members.
http://idp-rid.org/

Latin American Interpreter Conference
Martín Hiraga's pictorial of the 1999 Encuentro Internacional de Interpretes de la Lengua de Señas in Santiago de Cuba. In Spanish and English.
http://members.aol.com/mhiraga/interpreters.html

Legal Interpreters' Listserv
Unmoderated, restricted to sign language interpreters working in legal settings.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASL_legal_terps/

National Alliance of Black Interpreters
Black interpreters' professional organization. Professional development news, affiliate links, and printable membership information.
http://www.naobi.org/

Preparation of Educational Interpreters
Project of Rochester Institute of Technology and New York State.
http://www.nyedinterp.net/index.html

Trilingual Interpreters' Listserv
For interpreters who use Spanish/English/ASL, or who work in Spanish-speaking countries with the indigenous sign language. Links, member language database. Site in English, posts in Spanish and English.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/interpreters-spanishasl/