J Logan Smilges
Biographic Data
| ID | 1697629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Logan Smilges |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Logan |
| FAMILY NAME | Smilges |
| SIGNATURE | SMILGES J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2580-7065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toward a Crip Metaphysics
A crip metaphysics reveals disability as a contested site for the (un)making of spacetime, a dynamic condition of possibility for spatiotemporality. Following the lead of Denise Ferreira da Silva (2022), Smilges understands metaphysics as an inquiry into the matter of relationality: how our understanding of the world's physical properties affects the ways we can be with one another in and through difference. A crip metaphysics, building on the wo…
Toward a Trans[]crip Theory
Cringe Theory
Cringe theory is a framework intended to make sense of cringe as a cultural and political phenomenon that has come to condition how disability is understood in the contemporary American public imagination. Informed by Silvan Tompkins' approach to affect, cringe theory has two distinct modalities. First, it can be understood as a suprastructure of feeling, a reflex tethered to our affective anatomy, which regulates the relationships between and am…
Seasons of Nonbinary and Neurodivergence; or, So What If We're All X
The category of nonbinary has entered a new season. No longer emergent but maturing, it is facing new, pressing questions about what the term means, who it is for, in what ways it can be mobilized toward specific political agendas, and how it facilitates or impedes forms of community. In this essay, I unpack the anxieties that some trans and nonbinary people have expressed toward these questions and that are sometimes invoked to cast doubt on the…
Neurotrans
This essay makes the case for neurotrans, which names the nexus of neurodivergence and trans as an epistemic source, a place from which neurotrans people think neurotrans thoughts to pursue a neurotrans world. Bringing the interwoven histories of mental disability and trans experience to bear on HIV/AIDS, the author argues that HIV has long served as a racialized weapon of the state to subjugate neurodivergent and gender variant people, especiall…
Choosing disability: Bug chasing and gift giving in gay pornography
Starting with the premise that pornography is dominated by abled (or non-disabled) porn performers, this speculative article considers the extent to which logics and figurations of disability pervade the genre of gay porn, particularly the film Viral Loads. Produced by Treasure Island Media, Viral Loads eroticizes the deliberate transmission of HIV (popularly known as bug chasing and gift giving), and, as such, powerfully conveys the permeability…
Neuroqueer Literacies; or, Against Able-Reading
Despite a recent interest in thinking writing studies alongside disability, there has yet to be much conversation about disability’s relationship to reading. I argue, however, that experiences of disability and neurodivergence in particular can expand our field’s understanding of what constitutes literacy and of who can be literate
Trauma Sex: A Queercrip Erotic
Sometimes sex is really fucking hard. Pun intended. This essay explores the role of trauma in sex, arguing that experiences of trauma can reconstitute the erotic in ways that are incompatible with prevailing discourses on queerness, consent, and sexual violence. "Trauma sex" is a way of capturing the queer and crip flavors of this erotic reconstitution by demonstrating how many of us experience sex, sexuality, and desire in ways that go unremarke…
Seasons of Nonbinary and Neurodivergence; or, So What If We're All X
The category of nonbinary has entered a new season. No longer emergent but maturing, it is facing new, pressing questions about what the term means, who it is for, in what ways it can be mobilized toward specific political agendas, and how it facilitates or impedes forms of community. In this essay, I unpack the anxieties that some trans and nonbinary people have expressed toward these questions and that are sometimes invoked to cast doubt on the…
Neurotrans
This essay makes the case for neurotrans, which names the nexus of neurodivergence and trans as an epistemic source, a place from which neurotrans people think neurotrans thoughts to pursue a neurotrans world. Bringing the interwoven histories of mental disability and trans experience to bear on HIV/AIDS, the author argues that HIV has long served as a racialized weapon of the state to subjugate neurodivergent and gender variant people, especiall…
Trauma Sex: A Queercrip Erotic
Sometimes sex is really fucking hard. Pun intended. This essay explores the role of trauma in sex, arguing that experiences of trauma can reconstitute the erotic in ways that are incompatible with prevailing discourses on queerness, consent, and sexual violence. "Trauma sex" is a way of capturing the queer and crip flavors of this erotic reconstitution by demonstrating how many of us experience sex, sexuality, and desire in ways that go unremarke…
Neuroqueer Literacies; or, Against Able-Reading
Despite a recent interest in thinking writing studies alongside disability, there has yet to be much conversation about disability’s relationship to reading. I argue, however, that experiences of disability and neurodivergence in particular can expand our field’s understanding of what constitutes literacy and of who can be literate
Neurotrans
This essay makes the case for neurotrans, which names the nexus of neurodivergence and trans as an epistemic source, a place from which neurotrans people think neurotrans thoughts to pursue a neurotrans world. Bringing the interwoven histories of mental disability and trans experience to bear on HIV/AIDS, the author argues that HIV has long served as a racialized weapon of the state to subjugate neurodivergent and gender variant people, especiall…
Choosing disability: Bug chasing and gift giving in gay pornography
Starting with the premise that pornography is dominated by abled (or non-disabled) porn performers, this speculative article considers the extent to which logics and figurations of disability pervade the genre of gay porn, particularly the film Viral Loads. Produced by Treasure Island Media, Viral Loads eroticizes the deliberate transmission of HIV (popularly known as bug chasing and gift giving), and, as such, powerfully conveys the permeability…
Seasons of Nonbinary and Neurodivergence; or, So What If We're All X
The category of nonbinary has entered a new season. No longer emergent but maturing, it is facing new, pressing questions about what the term means, who it is for, in what ways it can be mobilized toward specific political agendas, and how it facilitates or impedes forms of community. In this essay, I unpack the anxieties that some trans and nonbinary people have expressed toward these questions and that are sometimes invoked to cast doubt on the…
Cringe Theory
Cringe theory is a framework intended to make sense of cringe as a cultural and political phenomenon that has come to condition how disability is understood in the contemporary American public imagination. Informed by Silvan Tompkins' approach to affect, cringe theory has two distinct modalities. First, it can be understood as a suprastructure of feeling, a reflex tethered to our affective anatomy, which regulates the relationships between and am…
Toward a Trans[]crip Theory
Toward a Crip Metaphysics
A crip metaphysics reveals disability as a contested site for the (un)making of spacetime, a dynamic condition of possibility for spatiotemporality. Following the lead of Denise Ferreira da Silva (2022), Smilges understands metaphysics as an inquiry into the matter of relationality: how our understanding of the world's physical properties affects the ways we can be with one another in and through difference. A crip metaphysics, building on the wo…
Psychology (6 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (3 works) · Queer (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Disability studies (2 works) · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2 works)