Disability Pride Author Talks: M. Leona Godin with Andrew Leland

July is Disability Pride Month, a special time to honor the diversity and uniqueness of each person in the disability community. In this conversation, authors M. Leona Godin and Andrew Leland discuss their work and  journeys toward understanding and embracing blind pride.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, educator, and the author of There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Playboy, O Magazine, Electric Literature, Catapult, and other print and online publications. Godin holds a PhD in English, and besides her many years teaching literature and  humanities courses at NYU, she has lectured on art, accessibility, technology, and disability at such places as Tandon School of Engineering, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, and the American Printing House for the Blind. Her online magazine exploring the arts and sciences of smell and taste, Aromatica Poetica, publishes writing and art from around the world.

Andrew Leland‘s book about the world of blindness (and figuring out his place in it) is forthcoming from Penguin Press. His writing and audio stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, newyorker.com, Radiolab, McSweeney’s, 99 Percent Invisible, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor to the Believer, and hosted KCRW’s experimental arts-and-culture podcast the Organist.

GET THE BOOK

• There Plant Eyes : A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness by M. Leona Godin

This book is also available in accessible formats:

• There Plant Eyes : A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness by M. Leona Godin (DB)
• There Plant Eyes : A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness by M. Leona Godin (BR)

ACCESSIBILITY NOTES

If you find it hard to read standard print, The New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Library provides free access to talking books, talking book players, braille, a talking book download website and a free talking book and e-braille app for mobile devices. Learn more and apply.

Note: DB = available on BARD in talking book format and as a mailable talking book. Some titles are available through Bookshare and can be found through the Bookshare (BK) link under that title. All Heiskell members can gain access to Bookshare for free. DB (digital talkingbook) / BK (Bookshare)

• American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation will be provided for this event.
• Real-time CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) captioning will be provided for this event.
• Please email branchprograms@nypl.org with any accessibility questions or requests.

This program will be streamed live on Zoom. You must register with your email address above in order to receive the link to participate.