Dr. Caleb Luna, University of California Santa Barbara, will be giving the presentation titled "REVENGE BODY: Caleb Luna on Fatness, Disability and Trauma". Reading from their book Revenge Body, Luna will explore theories of embodiment. This talk will walk students through discourses on, and connections between, fatness, disability, and trauma.

Caleb Luna is an award-winning educator and scholar who earned their Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. They are the bestselling author of REVENGE BODY (Nomadic Press, 2022), an award-winning educator and scholar, and co-host of the podcast Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back. Publishing, performing and curating across genre and medium, Caleb's cultural work reads, responds to and challenges tropes and discourses regarding race, size, sexuality and disability in media and culture. Dr. Luna is currently a University of California President's and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara.