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14 The Secret Life of Art and Accessibility (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

14 The Secret Life of Art and Accessibility (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on August 28, 2022August 28, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

In the previous chapter, “Portrait of the (Working) Writer as Blind,” Dr. M. Leona Godin discusses discrimination in the publishing world and how it reflects the biases of our culture that would rather pity blind ...

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‘Unseen Reheard’ * Andy Slater * Companion Text Plus Sample Track

‘Unseen Reheard’ * Andy Slater * Companion Text Plus Sample Track

Posted on August 28, 2022August 28, 2022Meet The BlindKind of TPE

*This is the companion text to Unseen Reheard by sound artist Andy Slater, who is featured in Chapter 14: The Secret Life of Art and Accessibility.*   When a visually impaired person listens they are ...

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Author Alice Eakes Interviewed by Leona Godin

Author Alice Eakes Interviewed by Leona Godin

Posted on July 29, 2022July 28, 2022Blindness and Literature, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

I first encountered Alice Eakes in her Huff Post opinion piece: “Yes, Blind People Read Books. We Write Them, Too.” I immediately knew I wanted to meet her. But I’m shy, so I quoted her ...

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6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

6 Darkness Visible (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on October 3, 2021August 5, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

John Milton is in some ways the heart of There Plant Eyes. After all, the title comes from a passage in his 1667 Paradise Lost–read the short passage from the famous invocation to the Muse ...

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Darren Harbour, “The Inspirer,” Demands Inclusion in the Pro Wrestling Ring

Darren Harbour, “The Inspirer,” Demands Inclusion in the Pro Wrestling Ring

Posted on September 15, 2021September 15, 2021Down With Ocularcentrism, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

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 ...

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Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Introduction: Seeing and Not-Seeing (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on July 21, 2021August 6, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

The introduction to There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness presents Godin’s earliest moments with vision loss when she was ten and visited so many baffled eye doctors. But the autobiographical quickly ...

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