[blindlgbtpride] Intro

[Barbara Mattson]

social justice is the main reason i belong to blind lgbt pride 
international.

barb mattson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dorenefc at aol.com>
To: <blindlgbtpride at acb.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 1:52 PM
Subject: [blindlgbtpride] Intro


> Hi All
>
> I have been reading people's introductions with interest and decided to 
> post a little about myself:
>
> My name is Dorene.
>
> I live in Seattle and identify as bi and have had relationships with women 
> since college. I listed my relationship status on Facebook as it's 
> complicated for two days and decided that was too much. I have a husband 
> from Russia who is deaf, gay and not ethnically Russian. We have been 
> separated for several years but have not gotten around to getting 
> divorced. I feel lucky to live in Seattle because it's both socialy and 
> legally easy to be open about lots of things.
>
> I just turned 50 this year. I came of age in the early 1980's when radical 
> feminist and lesbian were often mixed in people's thinking. Feminism is 
> more important to me than, say, sports. I like reading, computers, social 
> justice activism.
>
> I have had crummy vision all my life with different variations depending 
> on the sequence of surgeries. I feel lucky that I could read print allthe 
> way through my MA but I also feel frustrated not to have had more ways to 
> think iabout making some things easier, less tiring. I became legally 
> blind about 7 years ago so I have all kinds of vision dependent habits and 
> really mediocre skills of blindness. Most of the time I am okay with 
> embracing the adventure of it all. Well, most of the time.
>
> I think it was last summer I posted something wondering how many of us do 
> things to be visible for younger blind people dealing with sexual identity 
> issues. I posted the query but I still have not done much about it.
>
> But I am curious, who else is out there on this list.
>
> Dorene Cornwell
> Seattle WA
>
>
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