WMST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Invisible Disability, Satin
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Like queer culture the culture surrounding disability is typically not shared with one"s family members and family have di culty learning about it. Coming out as disabled. assuming that they are lying if they are not visibly disabled, race and sexuality can fall under this as well passing and visibility politics. In the essay the limits of coming-out discourse , ellen samuels talks about the similarities between being queer and having a disability. She speci cally focuses on the similarities between invisible disabilities and being a femme-lesbian. These similarities have to do with passing and visibility politics. Being queer, like being disabled is something that people will never assume unless you give them key visual cues. For someone with an invisible disability these visual cues do not really exist, so they will always be seen as being an able bodied person, unless they come out as otherwise.