Chaim (he/him, they/them) is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at Indiana University Bloomington (USA). Their dissertation project theorizes skin as a rhetorical site where biopolitical and biomedical power is exerted across bodies. Their broader research interests constellate around embodied rhetorics, crip/disability studies, and the rhetoric of health and medicine. He has completed an MA in English at Western Washington University and a BS in Microbiology from Montana State University. Their non-academic interests include cooking dinner for their wife, playing video games just for the character creator and inventory management, and pretending to know what they're doing with their bonsai.