The visually-oriented world of gender
Someone wrote…
Everytime I stumble across someone online who identifies as something other than cis and is also visually impaired I feel slightly less alone. In the highly picture/visually-oriented world of gender on the internet I often feel like I am the only one out there and am missing out. I wish this wasn’t such a big deal to me.
What’s your experience?
Posted by Freiya on November 21st, 2012 at 08:00 am
Category: your voice 6 comments »
November 21st, 2012 at 6:40 pm |
I’m not cis and I’m visually impaired, too. Hello, friend. :)
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November 22nd, 2012 at 10:18 am |
Me too! I definitely agree with your frustrations, but I also try to appreciate the different perspective on gender that my vision impairment has given me, I think seeing visual things differently and as less important has definitely affected my views on gender. Nice to meet both of you, I’d never met anyone else who doesn’t identify as cis and is visually impaired.
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November 22nd, 2012 at 7:20 pm |
Huh. I’ve recently discovered I’m genderqueer (about a month ago), and I hadn’t thought about my vision impairment having anything to do with how little I regard visual gender. It makes sense though. My impairment is called an Accommodative Dysfunction if you’re curious. My eyes don’t work together properly and its hard to visually focus on things.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 2:03 am |
Jeez. I can’t begin to describe how much this post has been playing on my mind the past few days. It’s… it’s just not something I’ve ever thought about.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 4:49 pm |
I too have impaired vision and am not cis. See what you got started, in a good way, as there are a few of us around :)
I connected a couple times online with people in ‘B-Flag’ or a similar acronym, but have no current concept of it. Best wishes to you!
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November 23rd, 2012 at 5:54 pm |
I just wanted to say that I am not visually impaired, but I am so glad someone brought this up! It’s wonderful to see people connecting, and it seems that these two areas of experience don’t meet much in conversation. Thank you.
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