ABSTRACT

This art-based autoethnography explores the experience of invisible disability, bisexual invisibility, and animals invisibilized for food. Seemingly unrelated phenomena became entangled through personal narrative, suggesting dynamic relationships. Five mixed-media collages were created, each exploring these phenomena in relation to the central concepts of queerness, and food and body. Written reflections accompanied each collage. Content analysis of the reflections revealed emergent themes: presentation and visibility, identity and psychological experience, relationality, and body and physicality. This chapter explores these themes as represented in the art and written reflections, relating it to the literature. The findings support further inquiry into the dynamics between visibility and invisibility as social exclusion, and the use of art-based inquiry, especially for exploring in/visibility.