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13 Portrait of the (Working) Writer as Blind (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on August 10, 2022August 10, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

IN the previous chapter, “Sanctified by Affliction, or Not,” Godin discusses the discrimination and biases felt by many blind people in their personal lives—from dating and marriage and children—to the lack of representations in the ...

Helen Keller in Vaudeville, a Short Reading from ‘There Plant Eyes’

Posted on June 27, 2021July 21, 2021Blindness and Literature

Helen Keller was born on this day-, June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia Alabama, so I thought I’d celebrate her birthday with a brief passage and reading from “Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love,” which ...