The Country of the Blind

Discuss how Wells’s story might be used as a case study for intersectional approaches to social justice. How are the issues that people with disabilities experience linked to the issues that colonized people experience?

Wells posits that in a society developed to address the needs of people with disabilities, there is still the possibility of social hierarchy. Comment on this aspect of the community society and discuss whether Wells’s assertion is correct if societies were to address the needs of all its marginalized members.

How does Wells’s parable of colonialism resonate with today’s world? Are there still modern colonies? How might this story galvanize or inspire anti-colonialist movements?