Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice | 
pickThis is an ambitious book, with its structure both strength and weakness. 3 threads weave - White‘s memoir, her research on Maud (an Australian deaf woman from the past), and (d)Deaf history. The memoir part also wove back and forth throughout her own life messily and sometimes confusingly. But it was also amazing. Her personal stories of how exhausting “passing” is, and other issues of ableism, were well written and striking. >>
Lauredhel White also writes vividly of her depression and isolation, particularly throughout her (mainstreamed) childhood and her time in London. White's book shows us how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go. I particularly recommend this to nondisabled readers, to start to give you a sense of how hard some of us are paddling beneath the surface to pander to your ableist expectations. 5y
Lauredhel Note: I am not deaf or Deaf, though I know a bit of the language and history. I do have a disability that can be unperceived by some people if I'm not using my wheelchair at the time. 5y
