Blind female characters in SF written by female writers

[kestrell]

Can anyone think of any?

I can think of a number of blind female characters written by male SF writers, and I can think of blind male characters written by male SF writers, but I am coming up with nothing for the subject line.

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[jesse_the_k]

It's "interstitial arts": sorta horror called The Garden of Eros by Dorothy Bryant. Relatively newly-blinded woman is abandoned by boyfriend and gives birth alone in cabin in isolated woods. The rhythm of the 1st person story is set to the periodic labor pains—I enjoyed it a lot.

Will ponder some more.

[kestrell]

Wow, that sounds graphic, but obviously a very different portrayal of a blind female character.

Today I received my copy of _Skellagrig_! I also finished scanning but not reading _The Secret Feminist Cabal_, and I am switching reading that with the firwst Lord Peter Whimesey book, _The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club_, because all that sf gets kind of heavy after a while. I can barely imagine the amount of research that the author had to do for _Secret Fem Cabal_, but it's great that someone did it before all that paper disintegrated and the generation of fans who owned it died, scattering their libraries.

[jesse_the_k]

It is graphic but in a sensual way. And most delightfully, it is not a "woman in danger" story: it's all about how she figures out how to take of herself, not as a super-blink, but as an everyday human.

Yes, Merrick's research on the _Fem Cabal_ is just stunning. More anon -- nap time.