Happy to be averagely queer and blind

Trying to fend off against the self-obsessed and self-inflicted body dysmorphic insecurities most gay, bisexual, and queer men suffer from constantly, is a merciless indictment of the toxicity and superficiality concerning someone’s own sexual attractiveness, physical physique, and social desirability biases that still prolongs painful, unhealthy, and unrealistic expectations for those uncertain if they belong anywhere in the LGBTQIA+ community.

While fatpohobia seem to be less prevalent compared to previous years, many who grapple with being overweight or obesse find themselves the deliberate target of social stigmatising attitudes towards their fluctuating body weight, rendering them too apprehensive to defend themselves outright and fall short of insisting that health fanatics stop force-feeding society’s discriminatory hyperfixation with youthful, beautifying vitality onto those happily satisfied and comfortable with their average looking bodies, including anybody in particular who is both queer and blind.

Karan Nagrani, who is a former graphic designer, disability advocate, blind influencer, public speaker, content creator, 2024 Blind Australian of the Year Award Nominee, 2024 Darwin Pride Ambassador, 2024 & 2025 Midsumma Festival Community Ambassador, and more recently, Relationships Australia’s Neighbours Every Day (NED) Campaign Ambassador reunited with Utterly Queer As!‘s Jarad McLoughlin to touch on how he both recharges after almost burning himself out last year and handles the psychological negative shortfalls of being so unfeigned, outspoken, unfiltered, and vociferous when challenging problematic, deleterious, and harmful racist, homophobic, ableist stereotypes that ignorant individuals wrongfully infer towards him as a ‘diversity hire.’ But firstly, Karan thanked Jarad for finally making the effort to pronounce his first name correctly nearly two years after his last interview on De-Stigmatised.