I think its time to say something long overdue, namely “crip culture” isn’t concerned much about blind people. David Mitchell’s canonical film “Vital Signs” which argues the body is political and the crip body is inherently political is not only inaccessible to blind viewers (an embarrassment twenty plus years after the ADA but who cares?) it lays out the ways and means of crip culture which are inherently ophtho-centric as in the end, crip culture is about display and visual irony. As they say in the vernacular, “it is what it is”.
Perhaps this disinclination toward thinking of blindness has to do with crip theory’s strong connection to queer theory–Robert McGruer’s “crip eye for the normate guy”–blindness doesn’t present well as fashion though of course its inherently problematic on the street. I don’t know. I do know that many films and videos coming out of crip culture are not mindful of blindness and that when blindness is theorized it is usually reified as the embodiment of alienation.
I’d like to hear from readers about this. Am I wrong?
Planet of the Blind 
Prof. Kuusisto, I much appreciate your inclusiveness regarding not only disability but everything. So many of us come from a position of scarcity regarding marginalization. Making a film to highlight lack of access for wheelchair users, very cool. But excluding blind people, or anyone else, don’t you kind of invalidate yourself? Susan
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