KYD’s Hayley May Bracken, Alan Vaarwerk and Suzy Garcia discuss Fiona Murphy’s new memoir The Shape of Sound (available 30 March from Text Publishing) and its exploration of how her deaf experience has been shaped by the social and structural stigma of disability.

We then discuss transgressive comedy and Zoomer humour in the new ABC iview series Why Are You Like This, co-created and written by Naomi Higgins, Mark Samual Bonanno, and Humyara Mahbub.

Our theme song is Broke for Free’s ‘Something Elated’. This episode was produced by Hayley May Bracken.

Further Reading and Culture Picks:

Fiona Murphy on noise, architecture and navigating the world as a deaf person, and how disability ‘fixes’ like hearing aids aren’t always a solution.

Rebecca Shaw on politically correct comedy.

Suzy recommends: Ethos (Netflix) and Friends & Dark Shapes (Kavita Bedford, Text)

Alan recommends: Eating With My Mouth Open (Sam van Zweden, NewSouth) and Minari (in cinemas now).

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