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Jenna Beacom, M.Ed Profile picture
Jenna Beacom, M.Ed
@jfbeacom
Sensitivity reader, advocate, YA writer. she/ her #deaf
Jan 26, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
WHEW that Pamela Paul @nytimes Op-Ed. 👀 Maybe I'll do a whole blog post later but for now just will focus on two small selections and the layers of WTF within. I was there in the thick of it when it was happening. And this was not how it happened. 🧵 1/ Screenshot of a single para... OK so start with "blistering online campaign." The book was plagiarized in parts, had ridiculous misrepresentation in others, and the author talked about her undocumented husband in such a way that heavily implied she had close knowledge of the subject -- the dude's Irish. 2/
Apr 17, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Just finished TRU BIZ by @NovicSara! A surreal experience, honestly.

As a sensitivity reader, I read up to eight books on deaf themes per month. This gives me a unique window into the rampant misconceptions hearing people have about deafness and deaf people. 1/ This was so blessedly different, but it also is so unlike the reading experiences I usually seek out; I have shelves of modern Indian fiction, the last book to astound me was "Underground Railroad." I'm utterly unused to a great book being so *familiar.* 2/
Mar 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Seeing a couple of recent-ish kerfuffles about sensitivity readers, would like to clarify something.

When I do SRs, it's not about protecting feelings per se. It's more about doing what I can to ensure that hearing people don't form dangerous misconceptions about deaf people. 1/ And when I say "dangerous," I mean it.

When hearing people think all deaf people can lipread easily and well, they refuse to provide ASL interpreters in medical or law-enforcement situations. This can be literally life-threatening. 2/
Aug 13, 2021 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
#CODA will probably be successful. Hearing people will like it. Success opens doors for deaf people. That's good.

But there are also many deeply harmful messages in this movie. Does the likely success cancel that out? 1/ 35 years ago, the movie Children of a Lesser God was released. The representation was deeply flawed. As a newly deaf teen, I came away from it thinking that deafness was terrible and tragic and that maybe, if I was pretty enough, a hearing man would love me anyway. 2/