Join Jiliana & Yadi along with guests Liz and Aimee for part two of our journey with AGB while Nat is out sick as we talk about Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone.
Learn all about his connection to the deaf community and how his access to this culture impacted American Sign Language, and not in a good way.

This episode contains explicit material. Listener discretion is advised.

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Source material:

https://www.katiebooth.net/invention-of-miracles
https://www.proquest.com/openview/8f6892b7db04631c7c1dd78f7e9038e3/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y
https://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/show/controlling-heredity/mizzou/breeders
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-gilded-age-and-progressive-era/article/abs/deaf-variety-of-the-human-race-historical-memory-alexander-graham-bell-and-eugenics/8F7B5F2EBB7B4CF199686B7B8C9B5C5B#:~:text=Bell%20feared%20that%20difference%20alone,interfere%20with%20deaf%20reproductive%20rights.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/books/review/the-invention-of-miracles-katie-booth.html