Oh (book) Baby!

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Cover for Queer SIlence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence by J. Logan Smilges. There is a partial image of a purple-tinted, bearded person with one hand covering their chest. The title and author name are centered on the cover in white lettering.

Queer Silence
Book Shower/Launch

Your favorite trans, disabled professor is having their first book baby! Join us for a virtual celebration of J. Logan Smilges’s firstborn book, Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence.

While Queer Silence is a rather melancholy project about the ableism that is trafficked through silence in the field of queer studies, this event is designed with joyfulness and accessibility in mind. At this book shower/launch, guests can expect to learn and laugh with a reading from Queer Silence, a discussion between Smilges and Cy Jillian Weise, a moderated Q&A, and a party game with the winner taking home a signed copy of Queer Silence.

American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation and Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services will be provided.

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Moderated by
Cy and Prof. Jillian Weise!

The Cyborg Jillian Weise is a poet and disability rights activist. Cy's essays on cyborg identity appear in the NYT, Granta and WIRED. Her books include The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (2007), The Colony (2010), The Book of Goodbyes (2013), Cyborg Detective (2019) and Give It to Alfie Tonight (2020). Cy directed and produced A Kim Deal Party, a twenty-minute video play, which was screened at Public Space One in Iowa City. Cy has two books with Ecco coming out soon: Common Cyborg (memoir) and Pills & Jacksonvilles (poems).

This is her first and last attendance at a baby shower.