Taking a bit of a break at the end of one year and the beginning of the next, but we have some bonus materials we hadn’t planned on airing. It was too good speaking with author Dr. M. Leona Godin again so we had to share.

On Outlook this week and next, we’re replaying a Zoom interview co-host Kerry did with Dr. Godin about her June 1st, 2021 book release examining cultural history, an exploration of blindness throughout the last few centuries, up to modern times. It’s about what sighted people think about blindness, in the tellings in literature and in cultural and historical examinations or lack-there-of and what blind people say when given a voice.

We spoke a lot about this book, There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness throughout the second half of 2021 and we’re ending the year with it again here and now.

Kerry was preparing an interview for online print literary journal The Rumpus and planned to use the Zoom recording for her notes when writing it up. It turned out, the casual yet informative discussion, taking place on June 24th, would be an audio basis for the print piece.

So check out the conversation between Kerry and Leona, Part One of two parts. (Second part to follow.)

Learn more about the book here:

http://thereplanteyes.com/about-the-book-and-the-author/

And read Kerry's interview from The Rumpus:

https://therumpus.net/2021/08/the-rumpus-interview-with-m-leona-godin/