Email to the Genderqueer Group

I emailed Genderqueer Chicago today.

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Greetings!

I'd like to come to the upcoming Genderqueer Chicago meeting this Wedesday. It would be my first time there, and I always have some anxiety about trying to meet a group of people for the first time due to my difficulties in remember faces. I am a person with prosopagnosia, a condition that makes it very difficult for me to remember who people are by sight. Sometimes it's difficult for me to remember details I learn about people as well because without remembering a face to attach them to, those details can get lost in the brain-shuffle. In turn, that can lead to me appearing to be aloof or uncaring, when in reality it's just hard to know consistently who I'm talking to.

I guess I just wanted to get in touch ahead of time. Even if the entire group doesn't know about my difficulties in advance, I feel some level of reassurance that I won't seem unintentionally rude or something if I know that at least one person (is it the moderator or similar who gets these emails?) knows about my face-blindness.

Thank you!

Chris

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For a number of reasons, I'm nervous about going; perhaps in equal parts with hopefulness.

Religion and it's Context

A discussion elsewhere on Facebook reminded me of this great series from the CBC show "Ideas" about the relationship between the secular and the sacred. It's not something that I have as much interest in as other cultural issues, but it did make me think differently about religion in the context of state, society, and other things.

The Myth of the Secular.

Sexism in the Media (of Course)

It's so frustrating when a TV show that I otherwise like reasonably well implies that ignoring a woman's stated rejection of your touch is romantic. Come on people. We should all know better than that by now.