[stylist] writing bios for dating sites

[Atty Rose]

I always say it right out in a dating site.

When doing cover letters for stories you aren't selling yourself, just what 
you produced, that is why I haven't done it on those, but on a dating site 
you are telling them about yourself and one of the big things is blind.

My eleven cents.
Atty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Miss Thea" <thearamsay at rogers.com>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] bios and cover letters


> Donna, if you joined a dating site, would you mention your disability in 
> your profile?
> I always have, but it makes you vulnerable to would-be scammers.
> I have because I didn't want to get people's hope up, then have them 
> express disappointment or even anger that I didn't tell them.
> I suppose I could tell them after we start getting to know each other?
> Just a thought.
> Thea
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Applebutter Hill
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] bios and cover letters
>
> Atty,
> Some of the blindness and disability publications want you to include
> something about it, but other than that, I am trying to say as little as
> possible about it. I decided to leave something in on my LinkedIn profile,
> because I am trying to connect with people in the blindness professions 
> and
> activists. But, that said, I still push it down into the text as far as
> possible. Blindness is part of who I am, but I want people to know about
> some of the other parts of me before they find out.
>
> I wouldn't personally say that I am a blind writer. I'm a writer and write
> about this that and the other thing. I was the first legally blind kid
> mainstreamed in my school district. That way they don't pigeonhole your
> writing yet they find out you're blind in a way that keeps it in
> perspective. Just my two cents.
> Donna
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Atty Rose
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:28 PM
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> Subject: [stylist] bios and cover letters
>
> Hi gang,
>
> When you send a bio to a magazine, they want cover letter, brief bio, that
> sort of thing, do you write that you are a blind writer working blah blah,
> living blah blah....
>
> In other words, do you mention your blindness? I did for Breath and Shadow
> but none of the other ones.
>
> What are your thoughts on the matter?
>
> Atty
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