In this episode the Triple Vision team takes a page from a Ted Talk by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called “The Danger of a Single story”. In her Talk the author relates what happens when someone else tells the story about another person or a community, and how much they can get that story wrong. Throughout the podcast you will hear the voices of the Triple Vision team, David Best, Sharlyn Ayotte, Peter Field and Hanna Leavitt discussing how the story regarding the community of Canadians who are blind and visually impaired has been told for years without them, and what the consequences of that are.

“I was shocked by that. It was a story that had been generated for an awfully long time by the agency about who we were as blind people, dependent, helpless, terrified by everyday living. I couldn’t stay any longer because the story I knew about my friends and myself was that we were educated, self-determined, independent, skilled and talented.” The single story is a theme the Triple Vision team plans to return to often in its upcoming episodes.

Resources:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Danger of a Single Story (2009): https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en