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November 2, 2020 72 mins

Retinitis Pigmentosa with Lance Johnson

Transcript https://rb.gy/eakyw0

Who is Lance Johnson? 

  • Lance Kestrel Johnson is a 30 year old transplant from North Carolina, living in Brooklyn, NY where he works as a video editor. 

  • Lance has a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which affects his peripheral vision and ability to see at night.

  • While he currently has most of his central vision, being diagonised with a disability made him interested in the disability comminuty as a whole.

  • That interest led him to create a podcast called The See-Through Podcast, where he discusses various topics of interest with people from the disability community.

  • In this episode Lance and Carden talk about:

  • Lance's first interview on a podcast
  • Lance's daily life with retinitis pigmentosa
  • Workplace and event acommodations for those with visual impairments
  • Normalizing medical equipment and devices ie glasses, wheelchairs
  • Independent learning about different disabilities
  • The problem with only getting 1 person's experience with a disability
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    @lancekestrel @seethroughpod

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    Special thanks to my producer Jonathan Raz on Fiverr.com

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