When I think about diversity, I don’t think about colour, gender or ethnicity first. I think about my beautiful daughters. My youngest has moderate deafness, and upon being told, most family members were distraught and anxious. I wasn’t. For me it was a gift. A mysterious and challenging one, to be sure, but a gift that opened up aspects of human experience and the capacity to communicate with a part of our own humanity, that others might miss out on or find harder to tap int