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We'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's "Conversion"--it was the very first piece of Deaf writing I read while studying fiction writing in Portland. https://www.guernicamag.com/conversion/
Raymond Antrobus's "Dear Hearing World", "Echo", and "Tinnitus"--the poems here are masterful. https://www.deafpoetssociety.com/raymond-antrobus
@SageRavenwood's "Black Velvet & Coke". There isn't a single day that this poem doesn't knock the breath out of me. https://rejection-letters.com/2020/09/04/black-velvet-coke/
@sarahbea89'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'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
This is probably the most well-known Deaf literature today, and that's because it's so fucking good. A selection of Ilya Kaminsky's poems from DEAF REPUBLIC. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/deaf-republic
And @snarkbat'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/
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/
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
