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Jina B. Kim is a scholar, writer, and educator of feminist disability studies and queer-of-color critique. Born and raised in metro Atlanta, she currently lives and works in Western Massachusetts as an assistant professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Broadly, her work aims to connect the intellectual and movement lineages of disability politics and feminist/ queer-of-color critique, extending the work of building solidarity across difference modeled by texts such as This Bridge Called My Back.
An award-winning scholar, Jina’s writing and speaking highlights the importance of disability justice politics and culture in navigating contemporary crises of care. Her talks and publications address topics such as self-care, queer disability kinship networks, anti-work disability politics, love-as-resistance, disability justice politics and writing, and contemporary feminist-of-color literature and culture. Her writing has appeared in Signs, Social Text, American Quarterly, MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States), South Atlantic Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, Lateral, and The Asian American Literary Review.
In 2021, Jina was supported by a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute of Citizens and Scholars (formerly Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) and a CSREA (Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America) Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Brown University. In 2012, she received the Irving K. Zola Award for Emerging Scholars from the Society of Disability Studies.
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Jina B. Kim is a scholar, writer, and educator of feminist disability studies and queer-of-color critique. She is an assistant professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Her first book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip of Color Writing, demonstrates why we need radical disability politics and aesthetics for navigating contemporary crises of care. Jina’s work has appeared in Signs, Social Text, American Quarterly, MELUS, Disability Studies Quarterly, South Atlantic Quarterly, and The Asian American Literary Review. She can be found on Instagram at @emancipation_of_jiji
