While my education in American Sign Language came from ASL teachers, not all the lessons were from a classroom. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, people from Canada and the United States took to the streets under the rallying cry, Black Lives Matter. During these protests, I first saw the ASL hand sign variant for Matter, which my ASL teachers later confirmed. To acknowledge this out-of-class lesson, I made a young Protestor for Black Lives Matter (wearing a protective face mask) to illustrate the ASL hand sign for MATTER and CHERISH.
Spread open O hands, palm in, are pulled down under the chin, closing into S hands, like holding something deep in value close.
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