Hey! It is Deaf Awareness Week! If you’re on campus, I recommend you check out the following:
MELANIE MCKAY CODY
Hudson Auditorium, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
3:30-5 p.m.
Melanie McKay Cody will give a presentation, Cultural Identity. Cody, a Deaf American Indian, has been employed with the Kansas State Department of Education as a linguistic specialist. This fall, she will be a professor at William Woods University, Fulton, Mo.
There’s more on campus. And because of this week’s event, I’ve got a book for you: Day by day : the chronicles of a hard of hearing reporter by Elizabeth Thompson. It is what it says it is: Thompson’s account of the life of a hard-of-hearing journalist brings awareness to people functioning, living with identity over disability, and interacting in the world.
Other events are taking place on campus, including a documentary showing at 7pm tonight, Audism Unveiled.