Archive - Vile Jelly

Colossal Cave Adventure

How playing interactive fiction games in the 1980s prepared me for becoming a blind computer user

Jun 26 •

Getting deeper into plain text

Jun 24 •

March 2025

How MAGA Scrambled Disability Politics

And: a feel-bad take on a feel-good blindness doc; reading and listening recommendations; (not much) more!

Mar 17 •

June 2024

I Know What the Apple Vision Pro Is For

A dispatch from Jurassic Apple Park

Jun 13, 2024 •

July 2023

The Eagle Has Landed

Tour dates! Press hits! Inchoate anxiety! Joy!

Jul 18, 2023

June 2023

An Invitation to the Country of the Blind

Here's your passport to a weird, sometimes beautiful new world

Jun 1, 2023 •

July 2021

nondegenerative semibrutal supercrip

Jul 7, 2021 •

December 2019

Vile Jelly is a profoundly infrequent email newsletter

Writing at the intersections of blindness, literature, sound, art, culture, and media. By Andrew Leland

Dec 11, 2019 •

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