Silence Is Multi-Colored In My World

by Red Haircrow (Author, Editor)

An imaginative collection of memories and observations written from the perspective of a young man who was orphaned early, who was gay, deaf and Russian. He was simple and complex, light-hearted and serious, whimsical and infinitely strong, and when he loved, he loved with all his heart and soul.A former sex worker and later a husband, he was an amateur activist and philosopher, a startlingly intelligent, passionate individual able to intensely appreciate even the small wonders of the world and the people for whom he cared.Part diary, part dialogue, and part rhetoric, “Silence Is Multi-colored in My World” is based on actual experiences. It is a literary portrait of a man with nothing to hide and everything to reveal. It is a slice into the willing veins of a mental and emotional free bleeder. A memoir/biography with photos.

Genres: Nonfiction, LGBT

154 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 10, 2012

About the author

Red Haircrow is an award-winning writer, educator, psychologist and filmmaker of Native (Chiricahua Apache/Cherokee) and African American heritage. Their first career was in law enforcement, and they hold a Master’s in Indigenous/Native American Studies and a Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology.

Their research and support focuses include Autistic Spectrum Disorder, GLBTIIQ needs and suicide prevention, and inter-generational historic trauma of marginalized and minoritized groups. In 2023, they were the winner of the Ma’iingan Scholarship Award winner as an early career psychologist in Two-spirit, LGBTQ+, gender fluid, nonbinary and other gender expansive support work.

Current projects include a RPG educational adventure video game focusing on original and Indigenous peoples, continuing research on stigma and prejudice relating to psychological disorders and conditions such as ASD, and the short documentary on those themes, ALMOST.

Reviews

[Indie Reviews · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 Stars

Silence Is Multi-Colored in My World is a beautiful and moving collection of essays, diary and blog entries written by a young deaf man, whom the reader comes to know as G.Y.S. A Russian national born in the Ukraine in 1978 and raised in an orphanage, G.Y.S. escaped the horrors of the orphanage during his adolescence ending up on the streets and forced into prostitution. He was rescued by an unnamed foreigner who bought his freedom and brought him to Germany where they settled in the countryside near Berlin. His rescuer later became his husband.

The collection was assembled and edited by author Red Haircrow, and is based on the writings and actual experiences of G.Y.S., as well as Mr. Haircrow’s personal memories, experiences and observations of this young man. Silence is written in the voice of G.Y.S., and serves as an intimate literary memoir of a man whose life was far from easy, given his disability and the emotional scars he sustained as a result of his early years. And yet, the portrait that emerges through his writing is one of an incredibly thoughtful, intelligent, courageous, kind and passionate man who lived and learned through these experiences with his humanity, compassion and ability to love in tact. The collection has been published in memoriam as sadly this man’s life was cut short at the age of thirty-one.

The complete review of Silence Is Multi-Colored in My World edited by Red Haircrow is available at Indie Reviews.

[Elisa Rolle · Rating 5 out of 5]

2012 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention (5* from at least 1 judge)