Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays

Winner of the Wandering Aengus Press Book Award in Nonfiction

Chrys Buckley was born with albinism, which means she has no pigment and she is legally blind. From an early age, she realized that while she was the blind one, it was hard for other people to see her as a real person.

Chrys often felt like a blank white canvas that everyone painted their assumptions about disability and paleness onto, rendering her invisible.

With warmth, compassion, wit, and lyricism, Chrys examines albinism, di...