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Mean Little deaf Queer

A Memoir

Terry Galloway

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English
Beacon Press
01 September 2018
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.
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Imprint:   Beacon Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   238g
ISBN:   9780807073315
ISBN 10:   0807073318
Pages:   248
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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 . . .

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.

Reviews for Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir

"This is a damn fine piece of work which is unbelievably powerful.—Dorothy Allison ""This is not your mother's triumph-of-the-human-spirit memoir. Yes, Terry Galloway is resilient. But she's also caustic, depraved, utterly disinhibited, and somehow sweetly bubbly, a beguiling raconteuse who periodically leaps onto the dinner table and stabs you with her fork. Her story will fascinate, it will hurt, and you will like it.""—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home ""The most uncomfortable laughter of the season.""—Out ""One of the finest, most nakedly honest and humorous autobiographies out there to be read. . . . Partly David Sedaris-esque in its slice-of-life essay moments, part slapstick farce, so very real, and always laugh out loud hilarious.""—Rebecca Sarwate, Edge ""[A] humorous and harrowing new memoir.""—The Advocate ""Told with understandable rage, quirky humor, and extraordinary humanity, this remarkable woman's engaging account deserves a large readership.""—Booklist ""A frank, bitingly humorous memoir.""—Kirkus Reviews ""[Galloway] is dexterous in her use of words and devastating with a sense of black humor that brings numerous laugh-out-loud delights.""—John R. Killacky, The Gay and Lesbian Review ""Galloway was born a storyteller, and her narrative gifts are in full force throughout, spinning yarns about herself and her family that mesmerize.""—Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle"


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