Hanna Leavitt is an author and blindness historian whose life passion is in creating a world with words and she is our guest this week on Outlook.

We met Hanna through the podcast she co-hosts called Triple Vision, all about the past, present, and future of blindness in Canada.

We have a lively chat about the brain tumour that was the cause of the damage to her eyes, the importance of finding out about our own blindness history here in this country and the community and culture of blindness (depending on the decade we’re talking and how blindness was viewed over the years), and end off with a bit of spring gardening talk.

The Disability Experience: Working Towards Belonging, with illustrations by Belle Wuthrich and put out through Orca Publishing in British Columbia, is her book, released in April of last year. It makes an important resource for young people and should be in libraries and schools to share the disability experience with everyone so they grow up with understanding and compassion for just another way of being in the world, one that could affect any one of us at any time. Leavitt aims to reach people to possibly change the prevailing outlook on blindness that still exists out there, addressing questions many are too afraid to ask.

You can find her book everywhere books are sold and online here:

https://www.orcabook.com/The-Disability-Experience

Check her out on her website:

https://hannaloraleavitt.com

And you can find Triple Vision here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/triple-vision/id1589475286