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A network begins with people

Find your people. Bring your voice.

Connect around blindness, sexuality, relationships, and consent. Lived experience belongs here. You do not need a professional title.

Introduce yourself

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Share with the community

Have an event, webinar, useful resource, or community information to share? These forms guide you through the title, links, audience, cost, and access details. BSAN reviews suggestions before adding them to the website.

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Explore the network

Two adults share an illustrated book and audio player at a table. One wears headphones; a long white cane rests beside a chair, and a cat sleeps nearby.
Image description: Two adults share an illustrated book and audio player at a table. One wears headphones; a long white cane rests beside a chair, and a cat sleeps nearby.

Communities

Find peers, introduce yourself, and bring your lived experience.

Three hands with different skin tones explore colorful raised shapes on a teaching board beside headphones and an open tactile booklet. The shapes are conceptual, not anatomical.
Image description: Three hands with different skin tones explore colorful raised shapes on a teaching board beside headphones and an open tactile booklet. The shapes are conceptual, not anatomical.

Consent culture

Explore communication, boundaries, and freely chosen participation.

An adult wearing headphones uses a computer, keyboard, and braille display. A long white cane rests beside the chair.
Image description: An adult wearing headphones uses a computer, keyboard, and braille display. A long white cane rests beside the chair.

Sex-positive education

Share accessible tools and learning that respect autonomy and pleasure.

Illustration of three wrapped condoms, a condom outside its packet, lubricant in a pump bottle, and a purple storage pouch.
Image description: Illustration of three wrapped condoms, a condom outside its packet, lubricant in a pump bottle, and a purple storage pouch.

Kink-positive adults: 18+

Make space for consensual kink, curiosity, choice, and access.

Illustration of five adults marching beneath a Blind and Proud sign. Two use long white canes; another handles a golden guide dog. The group includes a person with albinism.
Image description: Illustration of five adults marching beneath a Blind and Proud sign. Two use long white canes; another handles a golden guide dog. The group includes a person with albinism.

Policy and rights

Connect community knowledge with advocacy and systems change.

A group of Pride participants gathers near San Francisco’s Ferry Building, holding colorful handmade signs that read “Blind and Proud” and “Blind Proud.”
Blind pride, shared together. A group photograph from Laura Millar’s photo archive.

Our shared history

Meet the people and ideas behind the network.

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Resources · Workshops and conversations · People and professionals · Stories and photographs

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Community agreements

  • Respect each person’s choices, name, pronouns, boundaries, and access needs. Ask before offering assistance or sharing someone’s story.
  • Speak from your experience. Blind people’s lives and preferences are diverse. Disagreement is welcome; harassment, threats, outing, and discrimination are not.
  • Describe relevant visuals, use clear link titles, and offer accessible text when sharing media. Tell us when an access feature is unknown.
  • Keep private information private. Do not submit another person’s contact information, private meeting link, or intimate details without permission.
  • Tell BSAN if you created, sell, or are paid to promote a resource. Reviews and paid support must not buy favorable editorial coverage.

Resource suggestions, event submissions, and reviews go to BSAN for review before publication. Submitting a story does not give automatic permission to publish it. Please use the consent choices in the form.

Report a concern, request a correction, or flag an access barrier. Include the page or resource title and what needs attention. Share only what is necessary. BSAN does not provide real-time moderation or emergency response.