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Sightless Scribbles

Short stories and essays by Robert Kingett
1 year ago

The Kingett Guide to Free Pizza

Read the text version here. Narrated by Sean Crisden

A hungry blind writer encounters a buggy Pizza website and then finds an ally on the inside as they work together to rectify a faulty coupon.

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1 year ago

On Hearing in Color

Read the blog post here. Narrated by Sean Crisden, this episode talks about how Robert can hear colors even though he is totally blind.

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1 year ago

An Obituary for a Cookie

Read the text version here. Narrated by Sean Crisden, this essay hilariously frames a date like a crime scene. Robert's latest date eats his last cookie. How will Robert cope with this loss?

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1 year ago

A Conversation with a Voicemail I will never delete

Read the essay here. Narrated by Sean Crisden this essay is about Robert, a gay man, listening to the voicemail of a friend that is no longer here with us. His last words were, I love you.

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1 year ago

The Automated Labyrinth, and How I Slew the Minotaur

Narrated by Sean Crisden, this blog post is an account of how a blind and gay nerd overcame the pitfalls of the automated labyrinth of a health insurance phone tree.

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1 year ago

On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs

Narrated by Sean Crisden this essay, originally published on Sightless Scribbles, is an examination of doorknobs and how they relate to accessibility for blind people. Read the essay online here.

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1 year ago

Access Trauma narration 2

This is an alternate narration of the essay, combating Access Trauma, on Robert Kingett's personal website.

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1 year ago

How I would make the World Better

Mortified Spotlight.

Watch with ASL and Captions here A blind writer has an idea in a second grade essay how we could radically change the work system with dead animals, body Oder, and old people.

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1 year ago

Access Trauma

This is a reading of this blog post by Robert Kingett on access Trauma

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