ramblings.
Hearing loss, identity, and the things you notice when you experience the world a little differently.
Deaf Not Dumb: A Visual Exploration of Hearing Loss
Eight years ago I made a zine about being deaf. It formed part of my final major project at uni during the first covid lockdown, and I remember presenting it as a design thing, typography-led, visual communication, all…
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Three Words Out Of Ten
Why was travelling in English more exhausting than travelling in a foreign language? Spain should have been harder. I didn’t speak fluent Spanish, relied heavily on Google Translate, and regularly held my phone across…
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What The Alarms Miss
On alarms, boredom, beige ham, and paying attention. I have always known that alarms are designed for people who hear properly, although it took working in a care home for that truth to settle somewhere deeper than…
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The Guessing Game
This is my first proper “serious” blog post, so I should probably open with something polite and palatable, something that makes people feel comfortable. But that is not how my hearing works, and it is not how my life…
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