It’s still summer and the summer months often include summer camp which is where our guests this week first met as teens.

To begin with, the three things we have in common are our differing levels on the blindness spectrum, all four of us were integrated into the public school system, and we now record our respective podcasts in studios, them at the studio at Perkins School for the Blind and us at Radio Western.

On this episode of Outlook we’re speaking with Lina Coral and Juna Gjata from the 2024 debut - “Blind Girl Chat” podcast about their first impressions of one another when meeting at Perkins summer programs, the conditions and syndromes which led to their blindness and to them coming to the States as children, and some of the best and worst things about being blind, even in a progressive state like Massachusetts, all of which they have open and honest chats about.

We chat about the lack of truly funny blind jokes, having a sense of humour about our daily disability moments, and deciding when or if to take advantage of the perks of being blind, of which there are plenty.

Diversity, identity, intersectionality - just like Outlook’s accessibility, advocacy, and equality are the themes of our show and of theirs as we have a chat with the girls from “Blind Girl Chat” on all this and much more.

Find them wherever you get your podcasts or at the following link:

https://blindgirlchat.podbean.com