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For Tracy, learning to navigate the world was never just about getting from one place to another. It was about constantly adapting to spaces, systems and people that often expected her to function like everyone else, even when those spaces had not been designed with a deaf person in mind. In her memoir, The Silent Fortress, … Read more

For much of Tracy’s life, silence was never simply the absence of sound. It was something heavier. It was misunderstanding, isolation, fear, exclusion and the feeling of being present in a world that did not always know how or bother to communicate with her. In her memoir, The Silent Fortress, Tracy transforms those experiences into a … Read more