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Mean little deaf queer : a memoir / Terry Galloway.

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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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