#hypervisibility

[silverlovesmadi]

I am in full support of Black American women resting and enjoying ease. The placing of this statue in the middle of Times Square clearly violates and disrespects this much needed rest era and therefore harbors on tone deaf.

Anybody who is in support of this image of a black woman (and other statues like it outside of the US) not being used as a public square target by a biracial male with a white mother / black father (and allegedly white wife) in the middle of an incredibly dangerous unsafe hostile scary political climate, please sign the petition and help create a safer environment for your black little girls.

Safety, rest and protection for black women and girls is all that matters.

[rikaklassen]

Crunchyroll released three episodes of A Sign of Affection on YouTube, an anime about a deaf girl, without any closed captioning.

Ironic.

Hearing people love our visibility, but they don't accommodate.

[bisexualbaker]

As an aspec bi person, I fully support this decision.

I think we should put 'transmasc invisibility' up on the shelf until people understand that it's not a privilege to be invisible just because hypervisibility is bad as well. Until then, I'm gonna call it what it is – transmasc erasure.

[queerslurheritageposts]

I personally think with the focus the administration has on restricting women and people they see as such, it’s fair to say that transmascs will be just as deeply affected by their actions, just with less direct language (which goes with how transphobia often tends to look for transfems and transmascs vis a vis hypervisibility vs erasure). That said, I want to remind folks that what this government is doing is meant to exhaust you by making you freak out about everything. It’s supposed to be too much, and if you worry about all of it, you will be paralyzed. I’m not saying don’t worry (I hate the “don’t worry, it’s all illegal!” perspective, because the law is not immutable or total and will be ignored). I’m not saying to ignore orders that don’t directly affect you. Care about your community, and how the orders affect it, not about the orders themselves. Find those less fortunate than you, and bring them up. Find those more fortunate than you who are sympathetic, and invite them in (yes, even if they kinda suck. I’ve been there, but “kinda sucks” is better than “wants you dead”). The only way we’re getting through this is together. Be strong, be brave, and we will make it through this.

yeah, I'll be honest we've been trying to keep this a joyful space and as such have been trying really hard to keep mentions of politics at bay for the most part. but "kinda sucks" is better than "wants you dead" is EXACTLY what our point is with reblogging things like that last heritage post. The right is *extremely* good at overlooking the particular differences amongst them in favor of uniting over a common enemy- part of which is our community. The left, by contrast, is incredibly fragmented because of infighting and the desire to label things and not associate with people who may have a singular view slightly different than our own. Infighting only stands to benefit the enemy- we're stronger altogether than in our own smaller groups.

[notchainedtotrauma]

Black suffering is perceived or registered only in the most spectacular circumstances of violence, and conversely, the exaggeration and theatricality of spectacle conceals and diminishes suffering.

from Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman

[edenfenixblogs]

Ive been thinking about that exit poll post of yours and the dangerous hypervisibility that the exit poll contributes to.

At the same time, I've been working on a disability presentation about voting while disabled that begins with discussing how there is no exit poll that includes the disability community, that contributes to hyperinvisibility.

I want to include the point made about the hypervisibility the jewish community gets, contrasted against the hyperinvisibility that the disabled community gets, but I worry

Could this do more harm than good?

I think it is a good idea and will not cause harm.

These two populations are good mirrors of each other in terms of opposing disproportionality.

There are approximately 70 million disabled adults in America. As many as 1 in 4 American adults are disabled according to the CDC.

The lowest number I could find for the number of disabled adults in America was 20 million. I will not link the website I saw 20 million, because I couldn’t verify its reliability. But let’s use it as a hypothetical lower boundary, knowing that the CDC estimates that number to be much higher. The lowest number of disabled adults I could find amounts to 11% of the US population. The highest I could find was 28.7% of the US population.

There are between 15 and 17 million TOTAL Jews in the entire world. Not adults. Not American Jews. All Jews. There are, at a bare minimum, 3 million more disabled adults in America alone than there are Jews in the ENTIRE WORLD.

As for American Jews? There are 7.5 million. Total. 5.8 million of us are adults. There is, at minimum, 14.2 MILLION more disabled adults in the United States than Jewish adults.

The population of disabled adults in the United States is more than double the population of Jewish adults in the United States. At the lowest possible number. There are fewer Jewish adults in the United States than the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust. There are only 1.7 million more Jews in the United States than were killed in the Holocaust.

The CDC estimates that disabled adults in America alone outnumber the total world Jewish population by as much as 53 million and the American Jewish population by 64.2 million. That makes the number of disabled adults in America more than 11 times the number of Jewish adults here and more than thrice the number of Jews in the world.

This is further evidence of both your point and mine. Why are Jews singled out as a politically significant demographic? We voted more strongly in favor of Harris than any other religious group and it did NOTHING to sway the results. If all disabled people voted with as much unity as we did they could control the entire country. (I know there are myriad reasons why disabled people may be unable to vote and this isn’t intended to shame any disabled person).

The point isn’t that Jewish voices don’t matter. Our voices absolutely matter. But shining the spotlight directly on us at a time of a 400% increase in reports of antisemitism is bizarre and dangerous. Especially when that antisemitism is currently festering in political motivations. I truly can’t think of a single valid reason that we would be singled out for polling purposes other than to provide people who hate us with a chance to blame us for political ills, further endangering us.

If we are going to poll Jews (and I believe we SHOULD poll Jews), we should also be polling the other religious groups that are similar to us in number. Otherwise it’s a kind of discriminatory hypervisibility that inexplicably endangers a minority group.

Meanwhile, you would THINK that even ONE party would care about a demographic that comprises as much as 25% of the electorate. It is bizarre and dangerous to ignore the needs and desires of 25% of the electorate. It may serve republicans who pretend that everyone is a cishet able-bodied white Aryan living in the 1950s and earns a living wage, but it doesn’t serve democrats who claim to care about equity, inclusion, and progress.

This is also discriminatory in the hyperinvisibility it thrusts upon disabled Americans. There is no logical reason to exclude such a large demographic from exit polls, other than to send a message that their voices do not matter and their needs as American citizens are not priorities.

I don’t know the exact nature of whatever it is you’re working on. But I think the contrast in the types of harm this causes to both groups is a worthwhile cultural cross-section to highlight. I think that as long as you don’t downplay the harm to the Jewish community in an attempt to explain the plight of disabled voters (and it doesn’t seem like you would do something like that), then it is very worthwhile to highlight these inexplicable and contradictory polling practices.

[rimouskis]

I just read a substack about the bªllerina farm situation and seeing Simone out there being incredible has made me think about her idiot husband again and it feels like there are so many instances of watching ridiculously, incredibly successful women in heterosexual marriages who are so belittled and disrespected by their spouses... it makes me want to pull my hair out

[woodscreature]

Caught.

[ozfi]

listening to the wicked ost while thinking about it and getting a newfound appreciation for "unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe" "Blonde." its sooo. shes describing a jew. that weird girl who is different in ways you cant quite name because you dont understand her. strikes such a chord with me

[author-by-night]

Obligatory “no one should be forced back to office,” but if I have to go I should at least have it written into my work agreement that I get to defenestrate anyone who starts eating like they’ve got caps lock on IRL in the middle of a cube farm.

HHHHHHHYAOUPMNCHMNCHMNCHMNCHMNCH—right out the window.

[notchainedtotrauma]

Spectacle is no repair.

from Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe

[babehog]

I'm in a dour mood now

[violet-embers]

Okay so with being newly out at work and starting to dress more fem there I've been extra anxious whenever I'm out of my office around other people and I think I've figured out why.

So up to this point I've been pretty exclusively boymoding aside from just around my apartment on weekends. Because of that I don't really have experience with being in public settings while girlmoding. While work isn't the most public, there's still a ton of people around who can see me.

Basically I've been feeling hypervisible because I don't really pass and I don't really know how to hold myself so I feel like people are probably staring at me and judging me even though I know that's probably not actually the case. I want to just not be observed but I also just need to get used to it.

[grimtoucher]

I wish Erin Hunter would hire me not because I particularly care about Warrior Cats anymore but because I know a lot about cat behavior and it makes me really really irritated seeing people draw cat body language so incorrectly

[luidilovins]

not to suck the social media boot but tumblr acting like tiktok is trash because of trash content are probably not as cool as me becase my tiktok feed has a linguists major making a lobster language where they piss out of their eyes where else am I gonna get that kind of gold

[crosswire]

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