Jillian Weise

Jillian Weise (born 1981) is an American poet and disability rights activist. She is the author of the poetry collections, Translating the Body (2006), The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (2007), The Book of Goodbyes (2013), and the novel The Colony (2010). She is the writer and producer of the YouTube series Tipsy Tullivan. In 2013, Weise was the recipient of the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Personal life

Weise was born in Houston, Texas. She graduated with her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati.

Due to a computerized prosthetic, Weise identifies herself as a Cyborg. She also goes by the name The Cyborg Jillian Weise or ‘Cy’.

Career

Weise is a graduate professor at the University of Clemson. She previously taught at the University of Cincinnati. She has also worked as an editorial assistant for The Paris Review.

In 2011, Weise joined the video sharing platform, YouTube and began posting videos following the character Tipsy Tullivan to the channel of the same name.[1] The character of Tipsy Tullivan can be described by Weise's terminology for abilists, which is a "tryborg".[2] While in character, Weise portrays a women who wants to explain how to correctly represent disabled individuals in writing, but failing because she isn't within that inner circle to be offering how to go about the subject.[3]

Works

Translating the Body (2006) - This was her first chapbook to be published and came in second place for an Award for New Poets chapbook contest in the year 2005.[4]

The Amputee's Guide to Sex (2007) - Weise being tired of seeing people with disabilities falling into characters that weren't seen as sexual beings decided to write about the disabled sexual experience.[2]

The Colony (2010) - A young women searching for something new and exciting gets pulled into a research study that could "cure" her by offering an experimental procedure that could generate the growth of a new leg.[5]

The Book of Goodbyes (2013) - About an affair between the narrator and her partner who is married. Discusses how it can be hard it can be to connect with others and although the title is offering finality with "goodbyes" it also provides a story of the narrator's expedition towards intimacy.[6]

Honors

Jillian Weise received the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.[7] She also received the Fulbright Fellowship as well as the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award in 2013[8]

References
  1. "Tipsy Tullivan - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  2. "The Cyborg Jillian Weise". The Cyborg Jillian Weise. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  3. "Cyborg: Jillian Weise". Amplitude. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  4. "Translating the Body". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  5. "The Colony by Jillian Weise". Soft Skull Press. 2010-02-16. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  6. Poets, Academy of American. "On Jillian Weise's "The Book of Goodbyes" | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  7. "James Laughlin Award".
  8. "Jillian Weise bio".
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