Re: Researching the Other notes

[kestrell]

Not really notes from the panel but my writings on blind characters, science fiction, and the technology of prosthetic eyes.

What Good Writers Still Get Wrong About Blind People, Part 1
https://kestrell.livejournal.com/593188.html#/593188.html

Part 2
https://kestrell.livejournal.com/593549.html#/593549.html

Part 3
https://kestrell.livejournal.com/593697.html#/593697.html

A great post on writing about blind characters from the writer's perspective
Why is Oree Shoth blind?
by M. K. Jemisin
http://nkjemisin.com/2011/01/why-is-oree-shoth-blind/

My thesis: Decloaking Disability: Images of Disability and Technology in Science Fiction Media
https://cmsw.mit.edu/alicia-kestrell-verlager-images-of-disability-and-technology-in-science-fiction-media/

How Kestrell's prosthetic eyes were made, or, Kestrell and Alexx Go to the Ocularist
Part 1
https://alexx-kay.livejournal.com/287659.html

Part 2
https://alexx-kay.livejournal.com/289581.html

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Thanks for these links, and reading all the comments on your prosthetic eyes was educational.

(Speaking of worry-wart ocularists, do people even notice your eyes?)

[kestrell]

I was getting my RMV id renewed recently, and the woman who filled out my application and took the picture told me ai had gorgeous eyes. People will sometimes notice if I am sitting with the sunlight on my face, as it makes the eyes bright green and blue.