Tonight, Jan 8, 2026: #DeafWoke Returns With Guest Elissa Letendre!

New year, new season, same mission. #DeafWoke opens 2026 with an effervescent conversation on fitness, nutrition, and showing up as a Deaf person in wellness spaces.

Join Mx. Antoine Hunter and Elissa Letendre (Tara Knockout) for a conversation on fitness, nutrition, and Deaf wellness. Raised in Boston and a former bikini competitor, Elissa is fully Deaf and loves going to the gym and sharing nutrition tips.

#DeafWoke is a virtual consciousness-raising engaging online talk show, led by Black and Indigenous Deaf host Mx. Antoine Hunter PurpleFireCrow.

Founded as a response to isolation and misinformation experienced during COVID-19, #DeafWoke provides access to Deaf BIPOC life stories, critical coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, education, arts, social justice, and analysis of COVID-19-related news for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened, and Black Hearing communities.

Our mission is to uplift BIPOC Deaf and disabled artists’ voices, contribute to the arts and larger society, and increase awareness at the intersections of audism, ableism, and racism. This includes DeafDisabled stories as a force for cultural change and collective liberation. There is also space to talk about economics, parenthood, and education.

All episodes are produced with ASL interpreters and captioning, welcoming everyone to the conversation. It’s inspiring, it’s funny, it’s beautiful with the ugly, it’s things people don’t really talk about, it’s unheard of—it’s Deaf Woke.

Date: Thursday, January 8, 2026
Time: 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET

FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/807266108996328/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/UrbanJazzDanceCompany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UrbanJazzDance

ASL/Voice interpretation and Captioning provided

[CONTENT DESCRIPTION: Digital event cover with information for #DeafWoke conversation between Elissa Letendre (Tara Knockout) and Mx. Antoine Hunter Purple Fire Crow. The event cover uses black, red, green, and yellow inspired by pan-African movements for justice and unity. Images of Elissa and Mx. Hunter are featured:

Elissa: On a red background is a close-up head-and-shoulders portrait of Ms. Letendre is an Italian and French person with light toned skin and reddish cheeks. She has hazel shaped eyes with long lashes. She has shoulder length dirty brunette curly hair.

Mx. Hunter: On a green background is a photograph of Mx. Antoine Hunter Purple Fire Crow. Antoine Hunter is an Indigenous and African-American person with dark milk chocolate skin from his mother. He has almond-shaped eyes, long lashes, high cheekbones, a full beard, and long locs tied in a low braid. He is smiling and dressed in black.

Text reads: Antoine Hunter Presents: #DeafWoke. Thursday, January 8th. 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET. It's a new year and DeafWoke is back with an effervescent conversation with Elissa Letendre, Deaf Fitness model and former bikini competitor, and Mx. Antoine Hunter PurpleFireCrow! Join us for real talk on movement, nourishment, confidence, and showing up as Deaf in wellness spaces. Accessible in ASL & English With auto-captions

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