Hot off the presses, my gorgeously adorned contributor copy of Alt-Text Selfies brought to you by #AltTextAsPoetry ! I’m honored to have my ATS in there alongside so many talented folks plus essays by stars like Andrew Leland Andrew Leland !
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Inspired by my last episode with Andrew Leland, Andrew Leland, I'm exploring what exactly makes someone a disabled artist, identity, ableism and more. Plus two very special guests! oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=… Transcript: wp.me/p5iNzJ-DA

In this latest episode, The Art of Adjustment - Welcome to the Country of the Blind we hear from Andrew Leland Andrew Leland on the impact of writing on his adjustment, #ableism , the President of this #Blind Country and more. oembed.libsyn.com/embed?item_id=…

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I’m working on a piece about how disabled folks are feeling four years into the COVID pandemic. Interested in chatting with a journalist about your thoughts and feelings? DM me or email sluterman at 19thnews dot org. #NEISVoid #CovidIsntOver

Does anyone know people with disabilities using the Apple Vision Pro? A journalist reached out asking if I know anyone for a news story about their experience.

(1/2) Andrew Leland, MA '18, will present the Cherng Distinguished Scholar Keynote lecture at 4 p.m. April 8 in 101 Swallow Hall. The event, sponsored by
Mizzou Honors College, is free and open to the public. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade Andrew Leland honors.missouri.edu/honors-college…

Come be part of our study! Frank ⌁ and I are looking for live stream viewers and gamers who identify as blind or visually impaired to help create accessible live streaming interfaces. If you’d like to take part, please fill out this survey tinyurl.com/accessiblestre…

Loved talking with you, Joeita—such good questions

a little more than a week left to apply for this!

EXCITING NEWS I CAN FINALLY SHARE: WBFO is expanding our #Disabilities Beat with a new weekly segment! You can now tune in every Wednesday during Morning Edition and All Things Considered to hear 8 minutes about disability rights, equity and culture! wbfo.org/local/2024-02-…

'Sight is a deeply entrenched metaphor for experience, knowledge, and understanding. The threat of its loss forces an encounter with some of our most dearly held fantasies of autonomous selfhood.' Deanna Kreisel reviews “The Country of the Blind.' lareviewofbooks.org/article/leavin…

Join emma freud 💙 🔴 for R4 Pick of the Week. We’ve amazing audio from Marianna Spring jon ronson Lauren Laverne Chi Chi Izundu Ellie Taylor Jumoké Eddie Kadi Andrew Leland Chris McCausland - New tour on sale now! 🎫 Geoff Norcott Sikisa Comedy Andy Parsons Alasdair Beckett-King Andy Zaltzman bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

have only ever been delighted by people mis-titling my book with variations on NO COUNTRY FOR THE BLIND. Still waiting for someone to go the distance and finally call it what it must inevitably be called: NO COUNTRY FOR BLIND MEN

For his 2023 Public Pick, Public Thinker Series Editor B.R. Cohen suggests Andrew Leland’s “The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight,” a memoir about losing one’s eyesight in a world built for the sighted.

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Blindness is a radically distinct way of being in the world’

Caught this today and found it to be CLASSY AS FUCK

Andrew Leland finds all the words I’ve been reaching for to describe sight loss and strings them together so very, very nicely ♥️

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so pleased to hear Andrew Leland book of the week- 'the country of the blind' on BBC Radio 4 at 9.45am. Beautifully written, well constructed to give the sighted world a different sense of blindess.
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🚨 EPISODE 7 🚨

In this episode we chat with author and editor Andrew Leland Andrew Leland

Andrew, who has RP, talks to us about his brilliant memoir THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND penguinpress

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Nabbed John Lee Clark’s How to Communicate from the library after listening to Andrew Leland’s remarkable interview with the poet on the The New Yorker Radio Hour.

My book is out in paperback today! I’m so profoundly grateful to have reached this point. I owe everything in the world to my friends and family. Thanks to every stutterer, therapist, and reader who has championed this book (1/2)...