Inside the Little Plastic Castle

The New York Times has now published four of James Morrison’s short films on the lived experience of disability.

I Have Face Blindness. This Is How I Recognize You features Paul Kram. He discusses how people sometimes assign negative moral value to his not recognizing their faces. He explains how he systematically notes and uses non-facial information.

Morrison’s filmmaking is so effective: by showing many well-known faces upside-down, I’m dislocated from my familiar visual world. My favorite is he notes the delightful coincidence that prosopagnosia and faceblindness are both 11 letters long!

direct YouTube link

( play it here )

I’ve got around 400 books I no longer want to dust. (I'm saving my vision for new graphic novels.)

• 100+ science fiction or fantasy, dating back to Again Dangerous Visions from the Science Fiction Book Club
• 100 fiction, non-fiction, poetry standards found on the bookshelf of every 65-year-old feminist
• 40+ art topics including architecture, type, books, Celtic patterns, beadwork, songbooks
• 160+ disability related: theory, history, memoir — in print or graphic novel formats

I’m not interested in making money, and shipping them out would cost a lot as well. Almost all these titles are already available in my municipal and UW-Madison libraries, so donation seems unlikely.

MyGuy has volunteered to scan the titles into a database. That gives me a list, but what do I do next?

In my last post I neglected to include my single #1 fave online disability-culture resource:
http://www.graphicmedicine.org/
It's multimedia goodness—in addition to pix & reviews, the Graphic Medicine site offers a podcast.

There are many places to read about the social construction of disability. I treasure this site because it helps me understand impairment, and the social construction of medicine.

( let me recommend this site to you )