Three seemingly disparate events came together for me the other morning. One was the time my Harvard Law School classmates celebrated my birthday during Contracts class. The second was an unintended slight that became the subject of a Zoom meeting.
Disability
An Artist Wife and a Husband Who Can’t See
I used to speculate what people thought of my wife Laura, an artist, being married to me, a husband who can’t see. Did some feel bad that I couldn’t appreciate her work and that she had a husband who couldn’t? How about when I attended an exhibit of
The Library of Congress and the State of Publishing Today
1 For most subscribers to this website, this post might seem like a tempest in someone else’s teapot. It is a complaint about recent changes in the Library of Congress’s talking book program designed primarily to benefit visually impaired people.
Minority Within a Minority
Back around 1971, the parents who ran the Guild for Fairfield County’s visually impaired students, in Connecticut, arranged for a group therapy session for six high school students, including me. Each of us was the only blind student in our
No Numbers, No Stories: Disability and the Harm of Secrecy
1. Without Facts …? It is impossible to obtain objective information about the quality of a college’s services for disabled students. For other identifiable groups, we can get numbers, but not for disabled students. Members of those other groups are
Rarified Bubble
“Super blink” might be the harshest insult inside the so-called blind community. It refers to a visually impaired person who has done so well in mainstream society that they’re out of touch with other blind people. The mainstream equivalent might be