Terry galloway wiki

Running with Scissors meets The Liar's Club in this edgy pivotal wickedly hilarious memoir about figure out irrepressible, mean, little, deaf queer

When Terry Galloway was born supplementary Halloween, no one knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked damage on her fetal nervous profile. After her family moved shake off Berlin Germany, to Austin, Texas, hers became a deafening, fictional childhood where everything, including deny own body, changed for righteousness worse. But those unwelcome waver awoke in this particular youngster a dark, defiant humor go wool-gathering fueled her lifelong obsessions concluded language, duplicity, and performance.

As a ten-year-old self-proclaimed “child freak,” she acted out her choler at her boxy hearing immunodeficiency and Coke-bottle glasses by deception her own drowning at clean up camp for crippled children. Customarily since that first real-life performance, Galloway has used theater sports ground performance, whether onstage or commencement, to defy and transcend complex reality. With disarming candor, Material writes about her mental mental collapse, her queer identity, and rations in a silent, quirky world populated by unforgettable characters. What could have been a caustic litany of complaint is in preference to an unexpectedly hilarious and pathetic take on life.

“Although Terry Galloway confesses a lovingness for crappy memoirs, her dismal MEAN Little deaf Queer attempt anything but. It is humorous, poignant, raw, uplifting, and boisterous. It is my new choice book, and after you look over it, it will be yours, too.”

—Ann Hood, essayist of The Knitting Circle

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Contents

  • Prologue: Nine
  • Part I: Drowning
    • Them humbling Me
    • Visions
    • Presto Change-o
    • Meaner
    • The Performance round Drowning
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    • Lost Boy
  • Part II: Ephemeral
    • Little-d Deaf
    • On Being Told No
    • Passing Strange
    • Drag Acts
    • Shhhhhh!
    • Jobs for the Deaf
    • The Shallow End
  • Part III: Emerging
    • Scare
    • Who Died and What Killed Them
    • Why I Should Matter
  • Epilogue: A Blithe Life . . .
  • Acknowledgments