Connie briscoe deaf culture

  • While at Gallaudet, she learned American Sign Language and was immersed in deaf culture for the first time.
  • At Gallaudet, Briscoe learned sign language and was immersed in deaf culture for the first time.
  • Biscoe's name popped up, but I quickly learned she doesn't write D/deaf characters.

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    Hollywood has finally paid attention to Deaf culture. Three new novels go even deeper

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    New novels about the Deaf world

    True Biz
    By Sara Novic
    Random House: 400 pages, $28

    The Dolphin House
    By Audrey Schulman
    Europa: 320 pages, $27

    The Sign for Home
    By Blair Fell
    Atria: 416 pages, $27

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    Representation matters. For decades, it’s been a consistent refrain during my interviews with everyone from women environmentalists to Black sports executives to Native American directors. But it’s only in the aftermath of recent controversies (#OscarSoWhite) and horrors (the murder of George Floyd and hate crimes against Asians) that the world seemed to start listening.

    Representation is at least tilting in the right direction, with more Latinos starring in bilingual TV shows, more Black playwrights on Broadway, more realistic gay characters an

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    Connie Briscoe is a well-known contemporary deaf author. About Deafness/HOH interviewed her.

    Connie Briscoe’s Hearing Loss

    Q: You lost your hearing in your 20s due to sudden hearing loss. Can you describe that experience?

    A: I didn’t understand why I was losing my hearing. To go from having a sense to not having it or having it deteriorate quickly, is frightening. Suddenly I could no longer communicate with my friends and family with the same ease I could before. I used to love talking to my girlfriends and boyfriends on the telephone and lost the ability to do that. Fortunately, I read lips well and was able to compensate when talking in person. But I lost the ability to do a lot of things that I took for granted like movies and television (this was before closed captions became common).

    Q: When did you get a hearing aid?

    A: I wore a hearing aid way before I became managing editor of AAD. I first got a hearing aid as a child but my hearing loss was mild the

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    Connie Briscoe

    American romantic fiction novelist (born 1952)

    Connie Briscoe (born December 31, 1952) is an American writer of romantic and historical fiction. Briscoe's first novel, Sisters and Lovers (1994), sold nearly 500,000 copies in cloth and paperback combined in its first two years.

    Darryl Dickson-Carr has characterized Briscoe as "among the better writers to emerge in and benefit from the strong wave of interest in African-American fiction that arose in the early 1990s after the publication of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale (1992)."[1]

    Early life and education

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    Connie Briscoe was born in Washington, D.C., on December 31, 1952.[2][3] She was born with a hearing impairment due to a genetic condition and became profoundly deaf by the age of thirty, though she became adept at lip-reading.[2][4] Briscoe grew up in the Silver Spring, Maryland, area.[4]

    She attended Hampton University, graduatin