What’s your rate for readings? $5000 for most universities. If your university offers disability studies, then 50% discount.

What’s your rate for cyborg/futurist consultation? If you’re nondisabled then you probably can’t afford my rate. If you are a cyborg=politically=disabled, my rate is anywhere from gratis to $500.

What’s your rate for editorial? It depends.

I heard that you do not fly. Is this true? Yeah. The TSA “pat downs” need to change in order for me to fly again.

More about your name? For now I’m off the honorific “Dr.” Earned my Ph.D. in 2009 and just kind of over it. Been thinking about my 40 years of ableism from doctors of medicine. And 22 years of ableism from doctors of philosophy. So I decline “Dr.” and prefer “Cy.” I’m Cy. Weise. “Jillian” is not a dead name. But “Jillian” is reserved for people who are very close to me. ] That is probably not you. [

What are you doing with brackets? I’m turning the brackets out to signify a cyborg writes the text. I will do this until there is a cyborg font that discloses disability on my behalf.

Where did all this come from? The Delphic maxim γνῶθι σεαυτόν.

Who are you reading? Sappho, Epictetus & Lacan.

Do you consent to any contact from amputee devotees? No. I don’t often talk about harm from amputee devotees because I don’t want talking about that to further endanger me.

What is your bio as if you did not write it? The Cyborg Jillian Weise is a poet, novelist, video artist and activist. Cy’s second book of poems, The Book of Goodbyes, won the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. From 2016-2020, Cy produced a web series as Tipsy Tullivan. The pandemic interrupted and Cy paused that series. Founded Borg4Borg Productions. First video play: A Kim Deal Party. A memoir and book of poems are forthcoming from Ecco.

Borg4Borg Productions creates media by cyborgs, for cyborgs. It is self-funded, in the spirit of cripplepunk and entirely for pleasure. I prefer to hire disabled people. That is one of my principles. I get that principle from Justin Dart and Yoshiko Dart, the disability rights activists. Here is more on Yoshiko Dart’s activism: http://www.mouthmag.com/says/yoshiko_says.htm

Editorial Consultants: Many disabled people and many trans people and some people who are both disabled and trans and some people who hold additional, historically underrepresented identities to those two identities.