kziv

I grew up in NorCal, in an affluent community weaned on science and tech; The Handmaid's Tale greatly disturbed me when I first read it on my own around junior high/high school. It was relevant then, and is even more so now.

If you can do this without getting in trouble, maybe ask your students to research current events about reproductive rights, the big wave of rape stories worldwide, the backlash against misogyny in gaming/tech conferences, and ask students to write a critical thinking piece on how close or far we are down the path to the book's social norms.

Thanks for doing this AMA and showing that a disability doesn't have to prevent you from doing the things you love! A couple questions:

1) A lot of people are asking questions about the loss of vision, but what about the loss of smell and taste? How has that affected your life?

2) I once spent a day with a friend listening to a CD of the 1992 Monaco GP on repeat and by the end of the day I started recognizing the cars' different sounds and other subtleties. After so many years with cars both before and after your accident, I can only imagine how skilled you must be at separating out sounds. Have you been able to use that for anything outside of car work and just getting around?

Awesome, those are my favorite colors too! We used them for our wedding since my husband's favorite color is purple.

Kale chips with chili powder! ;)

I'm an ex-San Franciscan and have seen you perform as I used to go to concerts at Davies on a regular basis. Every time I'm back at the mothership for work I try to attend either a concert or the opera!

A couple questions:

• Do you have a friendly feud with the opera orchestra? Are we going to see a battle of the bands?
• What's a fun tidbit about Davies that the general public wouldn't know?

Thank you and good luck/have fun at the Festival!