Horror teaches us that our worst fears are inside ourselves, not outside, but the key to facing those fears is in our imagination as well. They shouldn't exist in your story because they're deaf; neither should you toss a hearing disability into a character for the sake of it. Plan How Hearing Aids or Implants Work In Your Book. Most days, if I am surrounded by family or friends who use ASL to communicate with me, I don't even notice my own deafness, but when I go out in public and have to deal with strangers who get flustered, upset, overly nice, or act rude to me because of my deafness, then those are the kinds of moments I try and bring into my fiction for readers to understand the full experience of a deaf or hard-of-hearing person in life and art. Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Horror: Interview with Kris Ringman. However, you may want to discuss this with the community in-depth first. Hearing loss has no direct bearing on intelligence, although access to education might be a factor. What attracted you to the horror genre, and what do you think the genre has taught you about yourself and the world?
Many members of the Deaf community consider deafness and signing cultural differences, and not disabilities. It is such a healing artistic process, but our world has put so many gatekeepers in place between us and publication that we need to have very thick skin and take every rejection like it is just one more step in our climb to the top of a mountain. If you're referencing cochlear implants, please be aware that many Deaf people consider these controversial and unwanted. I feel the horror genre has always been a way that people can explore their deepest fears and face them. If you do refer to lipreading or sign language, make sure you research thoroughly first. Ask on Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook groups for people with similar hearing disabilities to read through your story and offer suggestions. They received their MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. This prompted me to write horror plays from then on that my cousins and I would act out. Talk to people who use ASL, and watch videos on YouTube. Hard of hearing people are not always old, and we're not unintelligent. Deaf comic book characters. Hearing aids don't work in the same way as glasses. When we write about the things that are the closest to our hearts, we surprise ourselves and we always end up going deeper into a subject which only invites our fiction to leap off the page and have a life of its own and gives our work the best chance to enter the hearts of our readers. This has felt like they were trying to push us into the background and it was frustrating. Throughout history, we have been persecuted, mistreated, and even driven out of society.
In a fantasy world, your character might use charms or rune stones; and in a sci-fi world, you can develop AI or even cyborg elements. Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Horror: Interview with Kris Ringman. Above all, write your hard of hearing characters as well-developed, rounded characters, the same way as the rest of your cast. Her multicultural, lyrical fiction plays along the boundaries of magical realism, fantasy, and horror. Novels with deaf characters. Conversely, were there any particular successes you'd like to share? To what degree does your writing deal with deafness or being hard of hearing, and how does it present in your work? To better illustrate my point, I am a 30-year-old woman, and I have worn hearing aids since I was 26. Both the disability and the person should be researched and developed with the same care as any other character. Don't Forget About Background Noise and Other Effects of Hearing Loss.
While having a conversation, anything in the background works to obscure sound, and my hearing is less reliable as a result. I've loved it when panelists and authors doing a reading have used a huge overhead projector to put the words they are speaking on the wall or a screen behind them. It's essential to get more than one sensitivity reader, and you'll want to make sure someone who uses the same tools as your character (e. g., hearing aids) reads your work. Lipreading relies on faces being unobscured, and a hard of hearing person will need a clear view of the entire face. One amazing writing retreat called AROHO that I've been to multiple times had instead given me two interpreters that followed me wherever I decided to go for the week. Lastly, if writing is something you are compelled to do, don't ever give up, and don't ever stop writing. At the age of seven, my cousins and I used to sneak into my uncle's stash of horror movies and watch them under a blanket fort in their basement while our mothers played cards upstairs. Have you had any special challenges at events with accessibility? Keep writing anything and everything that you want to read that you have not yet found on the shelves. Writing hard of hearing, deaf, or Deaf characters doesn't have to be a minefield; it just requires some thought. As a writer in the horror genre, what advice would you have to give to up-and-coming writers? We also spent every Halloween together trick-or-treating and watching as many horror movies as we could. Kris Ringman (she/they) is a deaf queer author, artist, and wanderer.
Don't forget about the many different forms of sign language in use, such as British Sign Language (BSL), AUSLAN, or International Sign Language. It's impossible to lipread from behind or side-on, and the whole face is required, not just the mouth. My fascination with horror started probably too young, but has never abated. Follow our tips to ensure you're writing hard of hearing characters the way they deserve to be written. With the right optical prescription, you get full 20/20 vision again, but hearing aids won't give you perfect hearing. Someone with hearing aids is still subject to background noise, may still be unable to hear certain things, and may well rely on lipreading. As a deaf person, I always feel it is important that at least one of my main characters is deaf or hard-of-hearing because there are not enough authentically-written deaf characters in any genre of writing, and the world needs more of them written by authors who understand what it is like to actually be deaf or hard-of-hearing. In real life, we don't always do this well, but in fiction, we can transform our characters in ways that we wish we could also transform, and for me this can prompt intense healing and strengthen me emotionally. Avoid depicting your hard of hearing characters as unintelligent. Making up your own fictional sign language is fun, but it's essential to understand regular sign language first.
However, not all of us do and having a hard of hearing character who can neither lipread nor sign is acceptable. She is the author of two Lambda Literary finalist books: I Stole You: Stories from the Fae (Handtype Press, 2017) and Makara: a novel (Handtype Press, 2012), and the upcoming Sail Skin: poems (Handtype Press, 2022). Due to the depth of the lake at its center, their bodies were never found, so I reimagined a host of what I called "people in the lake" who drag people underwater if they're out swimming or fishing after dark. She lives with a French Bulldog and a tortoiseshell cat. If you are hearing and able-bodied, please don't write deaf or hard-of-hearing or disabled characters unless you personally know deaf or disabled people in your life and they could act as sensitivity readers for your work. Writing changes lives for us as authors and as readers, too. Plenty of people lose their hearing at an early age, and premature hearing loss is not as rare as you might think. We all have readers out there that need our unique perspective on life to cope somehow, get through another day, and maybe to write something of their own or be inspired to do something they didn't think they could do. For example, if someone is deaf the term refers to the loss of hearing, but for the Deaf community, the term Deaf refers to a culture. Lipreading and Sign Language. This erases the need for deaf and hard-of-hearing people to always have to look back and forth between the interpreter and the panelist/reader, and we can also see visually how they have laid out their words on the page. This is also a good option for an event that cannot afford interpreters.
Some cultures still harbor some unpleasant social stigma towards the deaf and hard of hearing. Don't forget to think about how your lipreading character will understand speech in the dark. However, in a silent room, I will begin to suffer tinnitus, which is maddening and impossible to shift once it starts. As a writer in the horror genre, are there any portrayals of deaf and hard of hearing characters that you particularly like, or dislike, or would like to talk to our readers about? For members of the Deaf community, sign language is a cultural distinction. As I write this alone in my apartment, I have music playing quietly, so I don't get tinnitus. Mel is a hard-of-hearing writer from Wales, UK. I have a glowing academic track record and intend to get a doctorate.
If you're writing a character who identifies as Deaf, they may have these views. You can also turn this trope on its head and have a deaf or hard of hearing person revered for their disability.
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