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Graham Isador wants you to know he's not a jerk, he just can't see you very well

The Canadian writer joins guest host Talia Schlanger to talk about his new five-part podcast series, Short Sighted, which explains what vision loss feels like.

The Canadian writer's new podcast, Short Sighted, explains what vision loss feels like

Headshot of Graham Isador.
Graham Isador is a Toronto-based writer and theatre creator whose work has appeared in Vice, GQ and The Globe and Mail. (Erica Peck)

Graham Isador is a Canadian writer and playwright who's living with a degenerative eye disease called keratoconus, which means he's losing his sight. But since there's no obvious sign of it, people don't always believe him — and sometimes they just think he's a jerk. His new project, Short Sighted, started as a one-man play and is now a five-part podcast series that explains what it's really like for him to lose his vision. Isador joins guest host Talia Schlanger to talk about the project and what he's learned about himself along the way.

The full interview with Graham Isador is available on our podcast, Q with Tom Power. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.


Interview with Graham Isador produced by Ryan Chung.