Susan Krieger – a woman to remember- lesbian scholar who lost her sight to find vision
In my quest to find amazing women to whom, perhaps life was less kind regarding their health, and more fortunate to find wonderful people in their lives and to have managed to create for themselves wonderful careers too and also, happen to be gay, I found beautiful characters and amazing stories. This is one of them. Susan Krieger is a sociologist and writer, teaches in the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University. Her books include Things No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding Vision ; The Family Silver: Essays on Relationships among Women ; Social Science and the Self: Personal Essays on an Art Form ; The Mirror Dance: Identity in a Women’s Community ; and Hip Capitalism. Miss Krieger happens to get out of the closed and be an open lesbian and afterwards to have lost sight. I loved how she found her way in this world proud and somehow people seemed kinder, they took lesbianism easier because of her lost of sight. And her guide dog, Teela, is amaz...