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In Episode 6 of #BlindTok, Murray Elbourne and Tammy Jackson are joined by Madeline Stafford for an honest conversation about what happens when answers take years to arrive and you spend most of your life filling in the blanks yourself. Madeline walks through her road from a Utah classroom where the books were bigger than she was, through a college experience that nearly didn't happen, and into her current role as a Teacher of the Visually Impaired, with plenty of those famously beautiful red 90s glasses moments along the way. A good eye specialist makes more of a difference than most people realize, eye irritation and dilation drops are their own special kind of indignity, and the Netflix documentary Crip Camp has quietly become required viewing for anyone who hasn't caught it yet. Blind summer camps come up too, where guards come down, friendships outlast decades, and the strange comfort of finally being around people who simply get it shows up in full force. Whether you're still hunting for answers or just figuring out what advocacy looks like in practice, this one settles in close.
In Episode 6 of #BlindTok, Murray Elbourne and Tammy Jackson are joined by Madeline Stafford for an honest conversation about what happens when answers take years to arrive and you spend most of your life filling in the blanks yourself. Madeline walks through her road from a Utah classroom where the books were bigger than she was, through a college experience that nearly didn't happen, and into her current role as a Teacher of the Visually Impaired, with plenty of those famously beautiful red 90s glasses moments along the way. A good eye specialist makes more of a difference than most people realize, eye irritation and dilation drops are their own special kind of indignity, and the Netflix documentary Crip Camp has quietly become required viewing for anyone who hasn't caught it yet. Blind summer camps come up too, where guards come down, friendships outlast decades, and the strange comfort of finally being around people who simply get it shows up in full force. Whether you're still hunting for answers or just figuring out what advocacy looks like in practice, this one settles in close.
#BlindTok is the weekly podcast where the vision loss community finally gets to have the conversations that matter without having to explain the basics first. Hosted by Murray Elbourne, CEO of Amerability, and co-host Tammy Jackson, a healthcare professional navigating life with retinitis pigmentosa, this show brings together real stories, real struggles, and real laughs from people across the entire blindness spectrum. Every week tackles topics the community actually cares about, from social isolation and career reinvention to dating disasters, cane anxiety, family dynamics, accessible tech that actually works, and everything in between. Guests from all walks of life share the messy, unscripted truth about adjusting to vision loss, the kind of honesty that never makes it into awareness campaigns but absolutely needs to be heard.
Whether you're newly diagnosed and trying to figure out what comes next, years into your journey and navigating a rough patch, or someone who loves a person with vision loss and wants to truly understand their world, this podcast meets you where you are. Born out of the thriving #BlindTok community on TikTok, where thousands have already found connection through shared experience, this show gives those conversations the space and depth they deserve. Expect candid storytelling, practical insights, community questions, the occasional embarrassing moment that every person with vision loss will immediately relate to, and two hosts who live this life every single day and aren't afraid to talk about all of it. New episodes drop weekly because this community waited long enough for a seat at the table, and now the table is ours.