Andrea and Keston Ott-Dahl: Saving Delaney

From Surrogacy to Family. USA 2016, 232 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Andrea Ott-Dahl agreed to act as a pregnancy surrogate for a wealthy Silicon Valley family. When pre-natal testing revealed the baby would be born with Down syndrome, Andrea was urged to abort. Facing both legal and medical challenges, she and her lesbian partner Keston chose instead to adopt and raise the child, Delaney, educating themselves as fully as possible. They ... Weiterlesen

Terry Galloway: Mean Little Deaf Queer

A Memoir. USA 2009, 230 pp., hardback, € 21.69
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When Terry Galloway was born on Halloween, no one knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fatal nervous system. After her family moved from Berlin, Germany, to Austin, Texas, hers became a deafening, hallucinatory childhood where everything, including her own body, changed for the worse. But those unwelcome changes awoke in this particular ... Weiterlesen