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Are people scared that using a white cane will make their blind character seem weak? They can’t use a cane because they’re so special that they already know what’s around them, and other blind people who use guides are inferior because they’re not special?

I’m tired. Give your blind characters white canes and other guides. Let them hold onto their friends, let them have guide dogs. Don’t make white cane users feel ostracized for not being “strong enough” to go without.

Another thing that pisses me off is when a sighted character comes up with the fantasy equivalent of braille and teaches it to the blind character. Braille was invented by Louis Braille, a blind man, in 1824. The blind character should be the one coming up with it.

Tldr I’m blind and tired of sighted people lol

Link to the kickstarter for a streaming platform dedicated to movies made by Africans and the African diaspora across the world! The platform was already active a few months per year during their online film festival, but they would like to open it all year round, add more movies, subtitles etc.

This is an awesome initiative : the mainstream vision of africans and black people is dominated by movies and stories told by white people, who don't represent who we truly are. Movies made by us and for us get much less exposure, and when you live in a western country it's really hard to have access to movies made by Africans or by the African diaspora. This platform could partially fix that problem.

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