Shinies

[aycheb]

An article in Tuesday’s Guardian talking about how the possibility of gene therapy for various forms of congenital blindness raises issues about ‘disability’ and identity.

Do I want my sight back?From physical to political blindness a whole series of recent posts on colour blindness and racial stereotyping in the UK and other places outside the US

Comments

[emily_shore]

Thanks for the link on disability and identity. My friend vescoiya has recently been posting about issues of disability in fanfic, so it is always useful to have more knowledge to bring to the table.

[aycheb]

Cool. I have a feeling the journalist who wrote it used to have a column, one of those confessional sidebar things, about going blind and how it affected her life - it might be worth googling her for more.