Sav Schlauderaff

Sav Schlauderaff, M.A. (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled Ph.D. candidate in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. Their work engages disability studies, disability memoir & life writing, trauma studies, and health communication. Their dissertation research explores the rhetoric, information-sharing practices, and community building within online biohacking spaces.

They combine their academic training in genetics, molecular biology, and gender studies with poetry, autobiography, new media analysis, and theoretical work in their writing. 

You can find Sav's published work in Fat Studies, Feminist Formations, Lateral, and the DSQ Community Blog. 

They graduated from San Diego State University in 2018 with their M.A. in Women's Studies, where they completed their thesis "Rejecting the Desire for 'Health': Centering Crip Bodyminds in Genetic Testing" - bridging their undergraduate degrees in Genetics, Cell Biology and Development (GCD) and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

Outside of their research, Sav is an Access Consultant at the Disability Resource Center at the University of Arizona, a member of the Disabled Staff and Faculty Coalition and the Disability Studies Initiative on campus, and an editorial board member of Fat Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.