I hope Ink Visible serves as a platform for people to use art in a similar way that I do: as a safe, insightful way that can contribute to building a community of people who have invisible experiences.
Sensors, which are the cornerstone of the invisible app experience, have made huge strides with regard to battery efficiency, but they still require quite a bit of power.
We already have invisible payment experiences that are actually more secure and allow people to pay for an Uber ride, rent a room on AirBnB or Venmo a friend after grabbing a meal out.
"When you use the monolithic Asian category, you render invisible the experiences of each specific population," Bonta said.
He continued, "When we're lumped together as one monolithic whole, you render invisible the experiences and struggles that exist". .
TVDT inspired me to think about ways to not only have a one-on-one interaction but be able to build a community based in invisible disability experiences using temporary tattoos.
Others are fascinated by invisible dimensions of experience that go beyond the body.
In some ways, while one can easily construct a metaphor for Saudi womanhood to be invisible, in my experience, Saudi men are just as invisible and in the rising climate of scrutiny for all aspects of Saudi, and in fact Muslim, feminism, the male voice is even more often obliterated, quashed.
Of course, it's important that we're offered stories relating periods to pregnancy, but the media's connections between the two elevate the cultural narrative of menstruation to singularly high-pressure situations, thereby rendering invisible the periodic experience of pain, self-care, and management.
An additional view is that they may potentially have a deleterious effect on patient/physician relationships; including the charge that they create or contribute to an environment of paternalism and reductionism that can render patient preference and experience invisible and irrelevant [ 1- 3, 7].
