Personal and cultural histories of blindness
In the previous chapter, “The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions,” Dr. M. Leona Godin considers the blind scientist and what blindness can offer science. In this final chapter, she discusses negotiating blind memes—meaning “cultural replicators,” ...
In the previous chapter, “The Scylla and Charybdis of Stigma and Superpowers,” M. Leona Godin explored how entrenched ableism and ocularcentrism encourages the sighted world to think of blind people in extremes: either super-sensed or ...
In the previous chapter, “Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love,” Godin incites readers to think about how notions of the virginal blind oppressed Helen Keller and stifled her dreams of becoming a wife and ...
In “Sanctified by Affliction, or Not” (Chapter 12 of There Plant Eyes), we meet Darren Harbour, a blind actor, dancer, model, stand-up comedian, massage therapist, and wrestler. Yes, you heard right: Darren is a wrestler ...
