Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir

Galloway, Terry

ISBN 10: 0807073318 / ISBN 13: 9780807073315

Verlag: Beacon Press, 2010

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BSM.18GRP

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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. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she acted out her fury with her boxy hearing aids and Coke-bottle glasses by faking her own drowning at a camp for crippled children. Ever since that first real-life performance, Galloway has used theater, whether onstage or off, to defy and transcend her reality. With disarming candor, she writes about her mental breakdowns, her queer identity, and living in a silent, quirky world populated by unforgettable characters. What could have been a bitter litany of complaint is instead an unexpectedly hilarious and affecting take on life.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Known for her cross-dressing roles in Shakespeare and at Austin’s legendary Esther’s Follies, Terry Galloway has toured internationally as a solo artist and with P.S. 122’s Field Trips. As a giant rodent, she heads up Mickee Faust, a community theater for Tallahassee’s weird, queer, disability community. When not touring, she lives in Tallahassee with her wife, two cats, and a bevy of friends and family.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir
Verlag: Beacon Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: very_good