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Mean little deaf queer : a memoir / Terry Galloway.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Galloway, Terry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Galloway, Terry.
- Deaf women--United States--Biography.
- Deaf women.
- Deaf artists--United States--Biography.
- Deaf artists.
- Lesbians--United States--Biography.
- Lesbians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear.No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Prologue: Nine
- Part I: Drowning
- Them and Me
- Visions
- Presto Change-o
- Meaner
- The Performance of Drowning
- Lost Boy
- Part II: Passing
- Little-d Deaf
- On Being Told No
- Passing Strange
- Drag Acts
- Shhhhhh!
- Jobs for the Deaf
- The Shallow End
- Part III: Emerging
- Scare
- Who Died and What Killed Them
- Why I Should Matter
- Epilogue: A Happy Life . . .
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8070-9758-6
- OCLC:
- 842881504
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