Wednesday, June 17, 2020

the invisibilizer


The Invisibilizer, by rob goetze. First panel shows a diverse group of people on a conveyor belt, heading into a machine labeled "Invisibilizer". Second panel shows only the white man coming out of the machine. One worker says to the other, "No matter what settings I use, I can't get it to make white people invisible..."

The Invisibilizer
While the Invisibilizer is a machine in the cartoon above, it is still is a reality for many marginalized people. The racist, cisheteropatriarchal systems that we live in tend to highlight their own while rendering invisible those who are minoritized. 


Verb
invisiblize (third-person singular simple present invisiblizes, present participle invisiblizing, simple past and past participle invisiblized)

(transitive, chiefly sociology) To make invisible; to marginalize so as to erase the presence or contributions of. Wiktionary.org

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