Not sure if watching Married at First Sight counts as not morbid, exactly, but that's what I did ๐
I mean I know logistically some people care because of sky daddy, or scapegoating, but even then it's very hard for me to fathom mustering the energy.
After all these years it's still impossible for me to understand why anyone would care who another adult stranger married, what they looked like, or in what ways they altered/cared for their body. I don't think I'll ever get it, much less why we decided to burn this nation to the ground over it.
It was also interesting to think about sign recording choice in relation to what would make more body contact and thus be louder. Thanks to Random House for being willing to innovate! ๐ค๐ผ
Photo of studio entrance with text: into the studio, sound on for hearies.
Video of Sara signing in the studio.
Text overlay: this is a list of things that will make sense when you get to the end of the book.
Photo of Sara in 2022 in soundbooth with text overlay: until @prhaudio and I invented a whole new way to audiobook for True Biz, recording the sound of signs to go beneath the ASL dialogue and help differentiate between the sound. Now I got to do the saw for MOTHER TONGUE.
Transcript/ID: photo of soundbooth setup with text overlay What does an audiobook mean to me as a deaf writer? For a while I didn't like thinking about it. It was my work but inaccessible, like how a vampire can't see their own shadow.
What does an audiobook mean to me as a deaf author? Check out the process by which we record the sound of sign language to put beneath the spoken narration. (click to open video and see full size/text)
*taps internet microphone*
After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...
We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...
lithub.com/what-was-los...
Lived out a few real-time experiments.
If we wrote even two percent of this shit into a novel workshop would tear it apart for being unbelievable
And especially if it's live! Last time I watched live TV the captions got the national anthem wrong ๐
Hiiiii, feel free to keep deaf people out of this! So sick of the condescension disguised as faux concern about how disabled people "need" AI. We don't. Autocaptions are almost always very bad, and then people like you use their existence to justify taking away actual accommodations that work.
4 vehicles with NY plates.
Confirmed ICE sightings at the Ambler (R5) train station in MontCo this morning. Please stay safe. ๐
Extremely grateful that one of the very few remaining cultural media outlets has decided to profile/photograph me ahead of my new book, but of course it is when I am 38 weeks pregnant and a walking vat of dysphoria ๐
I think my nervous system needs an ablation
Cool, now reunite him with his first language, peers, home, belongings and education.
Me: *doing free labor*
The internet: you have a typo. ๐
How about you go cure cancer, invent a replacement for drinking water, and then get back to me about whether your robot can write a fucking poem.
I can't compete with this.
Tomorrow, my son's school will be having meetings with all students discussing how ICE kidnapped their schoolmate and his family and sent them to Colombia.
Anthology?
Updates on two deaf children and their families kidnapped by ICE this month, including links and action items. www.disability-rights-watch.com/2026/03/08/i...
I'm so glad! It was obviously something where we had no clue if it would work (especially me ๐ ) so it's always nice to hear that folks enjoyed it!
White het cis dudes explain to me that I don't understand what "inclusion" means: a memoir
In fact, they don't even need to accept disabled kids at all ๐ซ
This is another deaf child who has been kidnapped by ICE, along with her mother and sibling - 12 yo Anyeli Valentina Quintero. At the moment, she is believed to be in one of the ICE warehouses in Arizona.
www.instagram.com/reel/DVmBo8c...
Sounds like their move was new
... Will look into it
