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We& #39;re halfway through Deaf Awareness Month. I want to share the D/deaf writing that has inspired me.
This will be a brief thread on my favorite online pieces.
(FYI: I chose pieces that would be free to read--literature should be accessible to all.)
This will be a brief thread on my favorite online pieces.
(FYI: I chose pieces that would be free to read--literature should be accessible to all.)
@NovicSara& #39;s "Conversion"--it was the very first piece of Deaf writing I read while studying fiction writing in Portland. https://www.guernicamag.com/conversion/ ">https://www.guernicamag.com/conversio...
Raymond Antrobus& #39;s "Dear Hearing World", "Echo", and "Tinnitus"--the poems here are masterful. https://www.deafpoetssociety.com/raymond-antrobus">https://www.deafpoetssociety.com/raymond-a...
@SageRavenwood& #39;s "Black Velvet & Coke". There isn& #39;t a single day that this poem doesn& #39;t knock the breath out of me. https://rejection-letters.com/2020/09/04/black-velvet-coke/">https://rejection-letters.com/2020/09/0...
@sarahbea89& #39;s "Is There a Right Way to be Deaf" encouraged me to take a critical look at the Deaf community and write work that showed the community as it was: flawed and passionate. I wouldn& #39;t have had the courage to send my work out without this. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/health/is-there-a-right-way-to-be-deaf.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/0...
This is probably the most well-known Deaf literature today, and that& #39;s because it& #39;s so fucking good. A selection of Ilya Kaminsky& #39;s poems from DEAF REPUBLIC. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/deaf-republic">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/...
And @snarkbat& #39;s "By Claw, By Hand, By Silent Speech" was a perfect example of how Deaf characters should have control of their own narrative. It inspired me to do the same in my own work. https://uncannymagazine.com/article/by-claw-by-hand-by-silent-speech/">https://uncannymagazine.com/article/b...
The next one will also be from Uncanny Magazine--I love their work so much and I love love love this essay "Sudden and Marvelous Invention" by Gwendolyn Paradice. https://uncannymagazine.com/article/sudden-and-marvelous-invention-hearing-impairment-fabulist-nonfiction/">https://uncannymagazine.com/article/s...
And, to end this thread, this fierce poem by @themegdaystory in POETS dot org; I love it so fucking much: https://poets.org/poem/10-am-when-you-come-me">https://poets.org/poem/10-a...
