Bug: Deaf Identity and Internal Revolution Book

Ahh, Chris Jon Heuer I'm so grateful that he exists. As much as I appreciate his insights, do I appreciate the way he says his opinions with his chest. Every hearing person would do well by reading this book. That being said, I don't like his approach to proving many of his points, usually by way of comparing Deaf struggles to other marginalized communities, I thought it especially weak to continously compare Black USian struggles to Deaf struggles, and thought that if he were going to even try to strike such comparisons that he needed to talk about Black Deaf experience and the way Black and white deaf people in US were historically socialized and educated separately. And no mention of BASL was another huge gap in that conversation. That all being said, I still appreciate the man, and mostly because he strikes me as the kind of person who would honestly engage with criticisms. And I'll always appreciate the ending of his book, which reminds me of the importance of saying shit with our chests, something I know he knows we all need. And so in the end, in spite of all that I dislike, I know there's good reason I continue to revisit his work.