Rumpus Original Fiction: Feast
I’m the only deaf person at the party, again.
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Posts Tagged: deaf
Queen of That Universe
The realm of sound yields to me, sits at my feet. I can switch on. Or not.
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Unclenching the Body: A Conversation with Jennifer Pastiloff
Jennifer Pastiloff discusses her first book, ON BEING HUMAN.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky discusses his new collection, DEAF REPUBLIC.
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At Guernica, Sara Nović condemns the linguistic dismissal of American Sign Language and questions the overwhelming primacy of spoken English. She attributes this erasure of Deaf culture not only to widespread misconceptions about disability, but also to the insatiable American desire to steamroll all forms of difference it encounters: No savior narrative can be extracted; no […]
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The Ways We Speak
We suffer, after all, not because of the ways we speak, but because of the ways we exclude ourselves with internalized external narratives about how different we feel from others.
...moreGrowing Up With Signs
At Vela Magazine, Katie Booth writes on the historical repression of sign language in favor of oralism, and her experience growing up hearing with a deaf grandmother: Everywhere she went, she brought Sign. In my mind, it was an act of rebellion as much as it was an act of preservation. The schools told her that […]
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Fantasy Football for Poets: Dispatch #1
I’m not supposed to be an NFL fan. I like writing, books, wine, condiments, ambient music, and US Presidents.
...moreRead My Lips (Or At Least Try To, It’s Pretty Difficult)
For Stanford Magazine, Stanford master’s student Rachel Kolb describes what it’s like navigating the world of the hearing when you were born deaf, with a particular focus on reading lips. As it turns out, lip-reading isn’t nearly as accurate as movies and TV shows make it out to be—especially if the speaker has a foreign accent. […]
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