Josh Christian: I wanted to start with a broader question to get us into your life and work. I think what struck me about it was that there were so many threads that are happening, and you’re introducing your reader to this whole world of disability that maybe they haven’t even begun to consider, right? […]
Jillian Weise
THE CYBORG JILLIAN WEISE is a poet, video artist, and disability rights activist. Cy’s first book, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was reissued in a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface. The Book of Goodbyes won the 2013 Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the 2013 Gardner Award from BOA Editions. Cy’s speculative novel, The Colony, features Charles Darwin, James Watson, and Peter Singer. Cy’s fourth book, Cyborg Detective, won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Essays have appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Tin House, and other places. Cy has been awarded residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Fulbright Program, and the Lannan Foundation. Cy worked in editorial at The Paris Review and The Iowa Review. In Fall 2020, Cy worked with disabled publisher Red Mare/Su Zi. They collaborated on the sold-out textual art chapbook Give It to Alfie Tonight. Cy’s memoir, Common Cyborg, is forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
On the Freedom and Creativity in Messiness: A Conversation with The Cyborg Jillian Weise
Tag, You’re It (Cyborg Sonnet)
by Jillian Weise
#IfYouGetThis #CripTheVote #SendMeADM #DeafTalent #WithTheNameOf #DisabledAndCute #ThePlaceWhere #ActuallyAutistic #WeSatTogether #DisabilityTooWhite #For26Days #AbleismExists #NotUsExactlyBut #AccessIsLove SEE MORE: Interview with Jillian Weise THE CYBORG JILLIAN WEISE is a poet, video artist, and disability rights activist. Cy’s first book, The Amputee’s Guide to Sex, was reissued in a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface. The Book of Goodbyes won […]
Twasday
by Jillian Weise
The first time I slipped between Tuesday and Wednesday, into a Twasday, I saw Amy. She was wearing her tattoos again. I had not seen her in years. She asked me to help her build a casket. She had the hammer and nails. The saw was lying on the ground next to a plank of […]
Ashley Shew Just Invented the Word Cryborg
by Jillian Weise
How to use it in a sentence. Elon Musk is such a cryborg when we critique neuralink. Don’t be a cryborg about it— just fucking provide access. After Stephen Hawking died all the cryborgs came out like “he’s walking in heaven.” Enough with your cryborg protest. We don’t care that you think the word “ableist” […]
THE COLONY by Jillian Weise (reviewed by Travis Schneider)
THE COLONY by Jillian Weise Soft Skull Press 352 pp. $14.95 review by Travis Schneider I’ve recently had a difficult time getting a job with my philosophy degree, and could probably stand a wider awareness of what exactly it is I’ve learned. But watch me subvert its credibility even further by describing what constituted a […]
MARCEL ADDRESSES KATE (AS HE WOULD IF HE COULD) by Jillian Weise
When the call came for me to join Bitto behind the damn Falls, did I not challenge the appointment, did I not appeal to the High Courts & wait in the dark offices of tree holes & check the box to describe myself as too bird-brained? Did I not beg to stay in the Arbolis […]
Contributor Bios for Issue 1 Spring 2009
Issue 1 Spring 2009 V. JOSHUA ADAMS is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and editor of Chicago Review. JOE AMATO‘s recent books include Pain Plus Thyme (Factory School 2008) and Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture (Iowa 2006). His memoir, Once an Engineer: A Song of the Salt City, is forthcoming later […]
MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 1 Spring 2009
FEATURED ARTIST David-Baptiste Chirot NECESSITY IS THE MOTHERFUCKER OF INVENTION thoughts on the delete button THE NEW EXTREME EXPERIMENTAL AMERICAN POETRY a gallery featuring the visual works of poet, artist, and human rights activist David-Baptiste Chirot Jared Schickling, David-Baptiste Chirot FINDING THE ROOOT an interview conducted by Jared Schickling with David-Baptiste Chirot that will […]
