With “The Politics of Blindness” he’s looking to plant the seeds.

This week on Outlook we speak with Graeme McCreath whom we met through The Canadian Federation of the Blind about his book and about his dual British and Canadian perspective.

We hear about his early years in England and the unique opportunity he got to study physiotherapy there, his coming over to Canada and Victoria, British Columbia specifically, and what led him to write “The Politics of Blindness” more than a decade into the 2000s.

Why aren’t blind people getting the opportunities they deserve to find a place in public life? How can blind people in this country take a greater control back of our own lives?

Graeme shares some of the experiential lessons he’s accumulated, how blind people are regarded in the broader society, all after more than 100 years with the control and wide audience the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) has impacted us - how it has held onto blind people in Canada and on how sighted Canadians think of us in cultural, economic, and social life.

McCreath has been a leader in the CFB and in putting together a piece of the historical record of blindness in Canada and hasn’t given up on the work it takes to obtain equivalent human rights which any other Canadian has.

So check out more about the book here which we highly recommend you read because this story is the broader story of autonomy and human rights in Canada and beyond for more people as more of us speak our truths as Graeme McCreath does in “The Politics of Blindness”.:

https://thepoliticsofblindness.com