AUTOCORRECT THINKS I'M DEAD
Sound Theatre Company presents the world premiere of AUTOCORRECT THINKS I'M DEAD by Aimee Chou from September 7-30, 2023. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, films and music to enhance your experience of the show.
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Everyday I Am Just Deaf
Powell's poems chronicle her experience as a Black Deaf woman working to create a life she loves in a hearing world.
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The Language of Light
Shea provides a history of deafness and signed languages while exposing the harms of oralism and arguing that education using sign language allows Deaf people to be complete, fully communicative human beings.
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Signing the Body Poetic
This collection of essays and accompanying DVD celebrate and analyze American Sign Language artistic expression, including poetry, theater, and film.
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Nervous
Generational trauma is one of several themes in AUTOCORRECT THINKS I'M DEAD. In this collection of essays, local activist, performer, and writer Soriano excavates her own medical history alongside sociology, neuroscience, and public health information to describe "what it takes to transform trauma not just body by body, but through the body politic and ecosystems at large."
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Hearing Happiness
Combining history with memoir, Jaipreet explores American attitudes about deafness through a series of curious cures, procedures, and products from 1860 to the present, and their continued influence on contemporary biomedicine.
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Sounds Like Home
Originally published in 1999, Wright's memoir documents her experience as a Black and Deaf child attending a segregated school for the Deaf in the American South.
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Sound Theatre Company's AUTOCORRECT THINKS I'M DEAD website
Three Deaf roommates get more than they bargained for when mysterious messages from Alexander Graham Bell start appearing on a vintage teletypewriter phone (TTY). Told in American Sign Language, spoken English, and English captioning, playwright Aimee Chou puts a delightfully entertaining twist on horror, a genre known for challenging culture and subverting expectations.
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