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Letters & Stories From My Jailed Deaf Dad

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Today’s Love, Sex, Death, and Books podcast features Kambri Crews, author of Burn Down The Ground. Kambri had enough material to write her memoir before moving to NYC: the child of two deaf parents, she spent much of her childhood living in a tin shack in Texas. Then, her father was sent to prison for 20 years for attempted murder.

We try to keep the talk light (we talk about married life, strip clubs, dildos) but we do land on some tough issues about prisoner rehabilitation and the right to die peacefully. If you would like to see one of the articles Kambri mentions it’s here.

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Something woke me up, which, as a CODA, should have been a signal that something was not right. One of the false assumptions about deaf people is that they’re quiet. No, they have NO regulation of sounds. They are burping and slamming cabinets and banging pots and pans… they are obnoxiously loud! And… [as a CODA] you just tune out the sounds of everyday life. But this night, it was three in the morning and something woke me up.
Kambri Crews living with deaf parents, and the terrifying night that that revealed the truth of their marriage. (via moth-stories)

(via moth-stories)