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SUMMARY:A Deaf Memoir of Voice
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Kolb at Harvard Book Store presenting\nArticulate: A Dea
 f Memoir of Voice in conversation with Rachel Berman-Kobylarz\nThis event
  will feature American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation.\n\n\n\nRachel K
 olb (Photo Credit: Josephine Sittenfield)\n \n\nRachel Berman-Kobylarz\n\
 n\nDate Monday\, September 22\, 2025\nTime: 7:00pm\nLocation\nHarvard Book
  Store\nAddress: 1256 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA 02138\nTelephone
 : (617) 661-1515\nToll Free telephone:(800) 542-READ\nTicket This event is
  free\; no tickets are required.\nHarvard Book Store welcomes Rachel Kolb
 —the first signing deaf Rhodes Scholar at Oxford\, recipient of a PhD in
  English literature from Emory University\, graduate of Stanford Universit
 y\, and a recent junior fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard Univer
 sity—for a discussion of her debut memoir Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of 
 Voice. She will be joined in conversation by Rachel Berman-Kobylarz—a D
 eaf educator and artist with over 16 years of experience teaching American
  Sign Language at the college level\, and Principal Lecturer and Curriculu
 m Coordinator at Northeastern University.\nThis event will feature America
 n Sign Language (ASL) in interpretation\nAbout Articulate\nA deaf writer
 ’s exploration of language\, communication\, and what it means to be art
 iculate—and her journey to reclaim her voice.\nRachel Kolb was born prof
 oundly deaf the same year that the Americans with Disabilities Act was pas
 sed\, and she grew up as part of the first generation of deaf people with 
 legal rights to accessibility services. Still\, from a young age\, she con
 torted herself to expectations set by a world that prioritizes hearing peo
 ple. So even while she found clarity and meaning in American Sign Language
  (ASL) and written literature\, she learned to speak through speech therap
 y and to piece together missing sounds through lipreading and an eventual 
 cochlear implant. Now\, in Articulate\, Kolb blends personal narrative wit
 h commentary to explore the different layers of deafness\, language\, and 
 voice. She tells the story of how\, over time\, she came to realize that c
 lear or articulate self-expression isn’t just a static pinnacle to reach
 \, a set of words to pronounce correctly\, but rather a living and breathi
 ng process that happens between individual human beings. In chronicling he
 r own voice and the many ways she’s come to understand it\, Kolb illumin
 ates the stakes and complexities of finding mutual and reciprocal forms of
  communication.Part memoir\, part cultural exploration\, Articulate detai
 ls a life lived among words in varied sensory forms and considers why and 
 how those words matter. Told through rich storytelling\, analysis\, and hu
 mor\, this is a linguistic coming-of-age in both Deaf and hearing worlds\,
  challenging us to consider how language expresses our humanity—and offe
 ring more ways we might exist together.
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