ABSTRACT
This chapter uses a decolonial, critical hermeneutics and counterstory approach to reflect on two stations of blindness, both of which connect to the same blind figure alluded to in the chapter as Ricardo Torralba (R. T.). R. T. was a Venezuelan lawyer; the first blind lawyer to graduate from my alma mater in the early 1970s and one of the first blind lawyers to graduate from a public Venezuelan university. The chapter engages the myth/mythology and the transimmanent existential realities of disability futurity as looked through the lens of identitarian encounters. In this chapter, the focus is my encounter with Ricardo in the mid-1980s in Caracas during a research engagement. Through it, I draw poignant conclusions on the nature of decolonial dimensions and the interdependent nature of radical solidarity within global north and global south contexts of pan-disability modes of subalternity.
