Is There a Right Way to Act Blind?

Is There a Right Way to Act Blind?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/magazine/in-the-dark-blindness.html

Illustration of a man holding a white cane with a red tip standing on a TV set whose lights project his long shadow across the floor.  Credit…Illustration by Dadu Shin

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Is There a Right Way to Act Blind?

Activists slammed the TV show “In the Dark” for casting a sighted actress in a blind lead role. But what if blindness is a performance of its own?

Illustration of a man holding a white cane with a red tip standing on a TV set whose lights project his long shadow across the floor.  Credit…Illustration by Dadu Shin

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By Andrew Leland

• July 1, 2021

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I learned about the TV show “In the Dark” in March 2019, when the National Federation of [...]