Blind Spot

This blog maps my place as a partially-blind academic in a resolutely sighted world. It looks at blindness in history, literature, art, film and society through my out-of-focus gaze.

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Big Blue Eyes?

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Everyone in my family has big blue eyes. Except me. I am probably genetically entitled to big blue eyes but my coloboma has changed the way...

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Sunday, 26 February 2012

Amadou et Mariam

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Have you ever done that thing where you are wandering round a shop and you like the music they are playing so much that you go up to the ...

A Bicycle Made for Two

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When I got married 9 years ago, some of my friends got together to buy my husband and I a wonderful blue tandem: Me and my tandem I w...

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Thursday, 23 February 2012

Looking at the Blind

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This striking image of a blind beggar was taken in New York by Paul Strand and published in 1917. It raises fascinating questions about ...

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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Zina Weygand - the Blind in France

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When I started working on French representations of blindness in late 2011, I kept encountering the name Zina Weygand. It is testimony both ...

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Saturday, 18 February 2012

Dame Judi Dench

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I listen to the radio every day. Mostly Radio 4. I almost never read the papers because the print is just too small. I can read newspaper pr...

Introduction: Personal and Professional Blindness

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This is a blog about blindness. It is about my experiences of my own partial blindness but it is also about my current research into French ...

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Hannah Thompson: I am a Professor of French and Critical Disability Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. I am interested in representations of the body, more specifically disability. I am particularly interested in blindness and how the sighted and partially sighted and the blind and partially blind relate to each other. Follow me on Twitter @BlindSpotHannah

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