It’s been a busy weekend here filled with lots of work in the home office, writing, planning, grocery shopping, extracting a few fall clothes from “the trenches,” and nyc’s own circus amok performing in our neighborhood. The show was fantastic, and as we were leaving I started to think about how *seen*  I felt there in this group of other freaks.  I often feel like my queerness is invisible which as I’ve talked about before has been quite the culture shock over the past several years after living as a FTM for so long and being very visibly queer.  While there Kestryl and I got to talk with some dear friends who we don’t see often, and they mentioned that they had been showing pictures of us to some guests last night and been trying to explain us, but it was hard :)  It was so lovely to have our complexity as individuals and as a couple seen.

Anyway, the whole wonderful fall afternoon watching the circus with the dog on my lap and surrounded by talented freaky people got me thinking about visibility, and community and the places where I as a genderqueer/trans, femme, freak feel seen and then all of those places like every other day in our neighborhood, or on the subway where I don’t. So I thought I would ask all of you, where do you feel seen, and what does being visible in that space mean to you?

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