*The Visible Body* in class writing exercise

How much is ones sex visible? or invisible?

How mch is ones gender visible? or invisible?

How much is ones body visible? or invisible?

How much are ones feelings visible? or invisible?

The idea of visible/invisible makes me think of something that I learned in my beginning photography class long long ago that blew my mind. Technically we don't see any thing. What we see is light reflecting off in different lengths (different waves for different colors) and our eyes take in this light, our brain filters it and makes sense of it, and we "see" something.

Learning this made me feel like nothing exists.

Kind of like female and male don't really exist. (or feminine and masculine then either)

They're labels that we've made up to quantify things.

Kind of like sex, and gender.

So if light exists (where nothing does  visibly without it), and sex/gender/race exist as we know them only because we've defined and named them... does anything really exist?

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