Silent Tears with J. Logan Smilges

Snacks will be provided

J. Logan Smilges is an assistant professor of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia. Led by commitments to transfeminism and disability justice, their scholarship and teaching lie at the nexus of queer/trans disability studies, rhetorical studies, and the history of medicine. They are the author of Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) and Crip Negativity (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Their other writing can be found or is forthcoming in Transgender Studies Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, Women’s Studies Quarterly, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, and elsewhere.