Hello colleagues,
AccessComputing staff invite computing educators and employers to join us as we facilitate a four week book club on True Biz by Sara Novic. Each week participants will read or skim a portion of the book and we will meet as a group over Zoom to discuss what was learned or ask questions to the group.
Register for the book club via this link.
We will send you a copy of the book upon successful registration so make sure you put the address you’d like the book to be mailed to in this form. There are also ebook and audiobook versions.
Schedule:
Friday, October 18th, 12pm (PST)/ 3pm (EST)
Friday, October 25th, 12pm (PST)/ 3pm (EST)
Friday, November 1st, 12pm (PST)/ 3pm (EST)
Friday, November 8th, 12pm (PST)/ 3pm (EST)
About the book:
True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk – True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they’ll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who’s never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school’s golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the hearing headmistress, a CODA (child of deaf adult(s)) who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another-and changed forever.
This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.
Please let Kayla (kayladb@uw.edu) if you have any questions or access needs. Book club meetings will have CART and ASL interpreting.
Sponsored by AccessComputing & funded by the National Science Foundation, Grant #: CNS-2137312. Any questions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the presenter(s), author(s), and/or participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the federal government.
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Eric W. Trekell
University of Washington
DO-IT Center
Seattle, WA
206-685-DOIT (3648)
ericwt@uw.edu
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NOTE: To support the transition of the Online Community to our new virtual platform, the INCLUDES Coordination Hub is reposting this message originally shared by Eric Trekell on September 7, 2024. The content of the message has not been altered.