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17 Constructing Blind Pride out of Ancient and Evolutionary Blind Memes (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

17 Constructing Blind Pride out of Ancient and Evolutionary Blind Memes (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on February 22, 2023'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature, Down With Ocularcentrism

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,” ...

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16 The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

16 The Invisible Gorilla and Other Inattentions (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on January 12, 2023'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Down With Ocularcentrism

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 ...

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15 The Scylla and Charybdis of Stigma and Superpowers (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

15 The Scylla and Charybdis of Stigma and Superpowers (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on November 4, 2022November 5, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes

In the previous chapter, “The Secret Life of Art and Accessibility,” Godin explores the irony of how even careers in sound arts—from opera to audio editing—have been historically inaccessible, although things are changing. Now we ...

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

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 ...

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12 Sanctified by Affliction, or Not (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

12 Sanctified by Affliction, or Not (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on June 22, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature, Down With Ocularcentrism, Meet The BlindKind of TPE

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 ...

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11 Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

11 Helen Keller in Vaudeville and in Love (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on May 29, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In the previous endnotes, “The Tap, Tapping of Blind Travelers,” we spent time with the science of echolocation and the poetry and practicality of the tapping cane as well as a little of the history ...

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10 The Tap-Tapping of Blind Travelers (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

10 The Tap-Tapping of Blind Travelers (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on March 13, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

While the previous chapter, “Braille and His Invention,” investigated the history of the tactile alphabet that was so key in blind education, this chapter turns its attention to the low-tech technology of the white cane—as ...

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9 Braille and His Invention (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

9 Braille and His Invention (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on January 31, 2022January 30, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In the previous chapter, “Performing Enlightenment,” Godin examined the origins—historical and philosophical—of the first school for the blind. We continue the tale of the early systematic education of the blind that began in Paris and ...

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8 Performing Enlightenment (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

8 Performing Enlightenment (TPE Hyperlinked Endnotes)

Posted on January 13, 2022'There Plant Eyes' Endnotes, Blindness and Literature

In “Chapter 7: The Molyneux Man,” we investigated the philosophy and science of “restoring sight,” which does not always turn out to be the obvious gift that many sighted (and blind) people might think. In ...

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