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4.27 AVERAGE
4.27 AVERAGE
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this was so informative and i really enjoyed learning more about the blind and visually impaired community, but i did just want a little bit more. it was cool to examine underlying prejudice against blind people, but i wish she would have talked more about the body image side of things as well as the idea of beauty, but that’s just a personal preference. also, it was a little slow.
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back half is where this excels. braille , canes, helen keller chapters are fuckin NUTS
I really loved this, haven’t read anything quite like it before. I learned so much!!
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I’ve not read a book on blindness before and it was truly so informative and really broke down a lot of the stereotypes I find myself and the people/culture around me using. I love that this book is not only a personal account of the author’s blindness, but also a rigorous breakdown of our understandings of blindness throughout history and in pop culture (if you count Homeric poems as pop culture lol). Like: why are so many blind folks depicted in movies/books/etc as seers of the truth, but also as poor unfortunate souls, but also as angelic virgins? All of these stereotypes seem contradictory but this book brought them together into a cohesive whole. I wish this was slightly less Western focused, I think it would have been interesting to see global understandings of blindness, but that probably would have made this book way too long! All in all, I would definitely recommend this as an entry point for non-blind folks wanting to deconstruct their understanding of blindness and sight.
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A truly excellent, thought-provoking read. The language around queer and trans folks is surprisingly outdated given the publication date, hence the half star knock.
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I loved Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson, but I can't get into this one. There's a lot of discussion of literature I haven't read, which is hard to follow.
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