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Select Essays
The Language He Dreams In
Pittsburgh Live/Ability, 2022
A profile of Dr. Kenneth DeHaan
& his work as a teacher of ASL at the University of Pittsburgh
Resonance of Silence
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, 2021
On the myth of deafness and silence,
highlighting the work of Chisato Minamimura,
& featuring a collaboration with Cristina Hartmann
A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue
The Believer, 2019
On deafness and music,
highlighting the work of Jeffrey Mansfield & Christine Sun Kim
Wellness Cures
Harper's Magazine, 2018
On a program trying to improve healthcare access for deaf people,
highlighting Ian DeAndrea-Lazarus & the National Center for Deaf Health Research
Recommended on Longform
The Sign for This
Vela, 2015
On Sign Language, family & forgetting
Recommended on Longreads & selected as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2016
I'm Losing My Grandmother's Native Language (radio & transcript)
based on excerpts from "The Sign for This"
WHYY’s The Pulse, 2017
On the shame of forgetting language
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