[il-talk] il-talk Digest, Vol 54, Issue 28
Araceli Avina
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Wed Oct 29 19:24:37 UTC 2008
Hi Adrijana,
Welcome to the NFBI Listserv.
I velieve I recognize who you are from the Zone BBs and just wanted to
say hello and welcome. Hope you find it interesting and productive
for you to be on this list. In case, you don't remember who I am,
this is Araceli. Take care.On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:00:03 -0500,
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> 1. New member (adrijana prokopenko)
> 2. Comments Needed for Blindness Review in O: the Oprah Magazine
> (Freeh, Jessica)
> 3. Re: New member (JOSEPH MONTI)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:44:00 +0100
> From: "adrijana prokopenko" <adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com>
> Subject: [il-talk] New member
> To: il-talk at nfbnet.org
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> Hi all,
>
> I just joined thiss list, so I am writing to say hello. My name is
> Adrijana Prokopenko and I am a 29-year old lady living and working in
> Macedonia. I work as an English teacher in a school for blind children
> and really enjoy my work a lot. I am also a member of the Macedonian
> association of the blind and at times do volunteer work there as well.
> I decided to join this list, hoping I can establish some contacts with
> other members, so if you wish to write to me or add me on skype, feel
> free to do so. The above address is my email address and my skype id
> is
> adrijana832
>
> Regards,
> Adrijana
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:18:07 -0500
> From: "Freeh, Jessica" <JFreeh at nfb.org> (by way of David Andrews
> <dandrews at visi.com>)
> Subject: [il-talk] Comments Needed for Blindness Review in O: the
> Oprah Magazine
> To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
> Message-ID: <auto-000071816527 at mailfront2.g2host.com>
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>
> Dear Fellow Federationists:
>
>
>
> It has come to the attention of the Public
> Relations office at the National Federation of
> the Blind?partly through e-mails from some of
> these lists?that a positive review of the movie
> Blindness appears in the October issue of O: the
> Oprah Magazine. The text of the review is pasted
> below for your convenience. Several of you have
> already written to the magazine to express your
> condemnation of its coverage of this outrageous
> and offensive film. If you have not already done
> so, please consider submitting a comment on the
> magazine?s feedback form to explain why this film
> is detrimental to blind people. This link:
> <http://www.oprah.com/contactus>http://www.oprah.com/contactus
> will take you to the contact page, and from there
> you will find a link to a comment form for the
> magazine. The National Federation of the Blind
> has submitted a comment and it is also pasted
> below as a sample, but please feel free to use
> your own words and your own personal experiences
> to illustrate why this movie is inaccurate in the
> degrading way in which it portrays blindness and
> blind people. If you have any trouble using the
> feedback form on the Oprah Web site, please let
> us know by contacting Anne Taylor, Director of
> Access Technology, at
> <mailto:ataylor at nfb.org>ataylor at nfb.org. Thank
> you for your assistance in this matter.
>
>
>
> Sincerely:
>
>
>
> Chris Danielsen
>
>
>
>
>
> Review
>
>
>
>
>
> O, the Oprah Magazine
>
> October 2008
>
> Live Your Best Life (LYBL) section
>
> Page 68
>
>
>
> Housewife Saves the World!
>
>
>
> At last, a movie that portrays women?s work as a heroic calling
>
>
>
> It is a truth universally acknowledged that good
> actresses in Hollywood are in want of good parts,
> and even the juicy roles are too often defined by
> the character?s connection to a man. She?s the
> wife, the secretary, the mistress. She?s strictly
> support staff. So it is with Blindness, adapted
> from Jos? Saramago?s novel about a mysterious
> illness that makes a nation go blind. The female
> characters are ID?d as if they were possessions:
> the Doctor?s Wife, the First Blind Man?s Wife,
> etc. (There?s also the Woman with Dark Glasses,
> but that?s a euphemism?she?s actually the Woman Who Sleeps with Men for
> Money.)
>
>
>
> What?s startling about Blindness is that for
> once, the housewife gets to be the visionary.
> Literally: The Doctor?s Wife (Julianne Moore) is
> the only one who?s immune to the blinding virus,
> though she loyally follows her husband (Mark
> Ruffalo) into the quarantine wards, which soon
> descend into squalor and madness. The Wife starts
> out as a tippling, flute-voiced homemaker; as the
> situation worsens, her pitch drops, her jaw sets,
> and a gunmetal gleam of resolution lights up
> those functioning eyes as she labors doggedly to
> keep herself and her insta-family of fellow
> detainees from plunging into utter depravity.
> Blindness conjures a world where an ordinary gal
> has a uniquely menial kind of greatness thrust
> upon her, where the drudgery of mopping and
> laundering is a noble calling and procuring
> groceries is a do-or-die blood sport?a test of
> leadership, in fact. Who would have thought it:
> women?s work as the stuff of movie heroism. ?J.W.
>
>
>
>
>
> Sample Comment
>
>
>
> The National Federation of the Blind is shocked
> and amazed to read the positive review of the
> film Blindness in the pages of your October
> issue. This film is not about a heroic woman who
> saves the world; rather, it is about blindness
> and the myth that being sighted is inherently
> superior to being blind. The character played by
> Julianne Moore is only superior to the other
> characters in the story because she can see and
> they cannot. This formulation is offensive to
> the nation?s blind and furthers misconceptions
> and stereotypes that the general public holds
> about blindness and blind people. The blind
> people in the film are helpless, incompetent, and
> morally degenerate; Moore?s character is
> portrayed as physically, spiritually, and morally
> superior to them because she can see. In the
> world imagined by this film, the blind can only
> be ?saved? through the assistance of the
> sighted. This kind of thinking contributes to an
> unemployment rate of over 70 percent among
> working-age blind adults. For this magazine to
> endorse the world view of this film is to amplify
> and affirm the film?s offensive, demeaning, and
> harmful portrayal of blind people.
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:28:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: JOSEPH MONTI <jlmonti at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: [il-talk] New member
> To: NFB of Illinois Mailing List <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Message-ID: <911371.28002.qm at web83408.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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>
> welcome adrijana, i am joe monti former v.p. of the chicago chapter and
> IL. affiliate. i do a lot of fundraising so we will talkin the future.
> the chicago chapter meets every 2nd saturday at 1 p.m. at Excheckers on
> wabash ave. in the loop. it is between adams and jackson.
> joe monti
>
> --- On Tue, 10/28/08, adrijana prokopenko <adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> From: adrijana prokopenko <adrijana.prokopenko at gmail.com>
> Subject: [il-talk] New member
> To: il-talk at nfbnet.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 2:44 PM
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just joined thiss list, so I am writing to say hello. My name is
> Adrijana Prokopenko and I am a 29-year old lady living and working in
> Macedonia. I work as an English teacher in a school for blind children
> and really enjoy my work a lot. I am also a member of the Macedonian
> association of the blind and at times do volunteer work there as well.
> I decided to join this list, hoping I can establish some contacts with
> other members, so if you wish to write to me or add me on skype, feel
> free to do so. The above address is my email address and my skype id
> is
> adrijana832
>
> Regards,
> Adrijana
>
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