(This message is crossposted with the DS-HUM listserv.) Hello all, We (the Digital Accessible Futures Lab at UM) invite you to attend two upcoming events for the week of 1/23. 1. Queer Silence: Rhetorical Quieting and an Erotics of Absence, Logan Smilges in Conversation with Remi Yergeau and David Adelman Brief Event description: The value of visibility is contingent on a variable, embodyminded social currency. Being seen tends to benefit most the people whose bodies and minds adhere closest to norms structured by whiteness, cisnormativity, and abledness. In their interactive talk, J. Logan Smilges shows how queer and otherwise marginalized populations navigate the risks that subtend their precarious visibility. Centering their analysis on the dating app Grindr, Smilges introduces profile pictures as a digital site for rhetorical quieting-a strategy whereby users regulate how their bodyminds signify to people around them. As part of their talk, Smilges will offer an opportunity for attendees to evaluate how their own social media use is situated within a political matrix of presence and absence. The event is hybrid. More details and registration links may be found here: https://www.disconetwork.org/disco-events/rhetorical-quieting-and-an-erotics -of-absence-logan-smilges-in-conversation-with-remi-yergeau-and-david-adelma n 2. Access Advocacy: A Crip Mentoring Roundtable, Friday, January 27, 2023, 12:00 PM-1:30 PM Brief Event Description: How do we advocate for access in environments that are hostile to life and living? Where can we find community and fellow accomplices as we undertake this work? Please join us as we think-together about access labor, access intimacy, disability justice, and digital crip/mad life in the time of COVID. More details and registration links may be found here: https://www.disconetwork.org/disco-events/access-advocacy-a-crip-mentoring-r oundtable How do we advocate for access in environments that are hostile to life and living? Where can we find community and fellow accomplices as we undertake this work? Please join us as we think-together about access labor, access intimacy, disability justice, and digital crip/mad life in the time of COVID. - David Adelman, PhD, (He/Him/His) University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Digital Studies Institute/Digital Accessible Futures Lab https://www.disconetwork.org/ I use dictation software. In case of errors, please read creatively and generously.