Work

Jina has published, taught, and spoken broadly on topics of disability culture and politics, care and racial capitalism, feminist movements, and more.

Some publications can be found at Smith Scholarworks.

Articles

  • “The (Crip) Revolution Begins at Home.” GLQ, 30, no. 4 (Fall 2024): 531–535.

  • “Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto.” Co-authored with Mimi Khúc and Mel Y. Chen. Disability Studies Quarterly 43, no. 1 (Fall 2023): https://dsq-sds.org/index.php/dsq/article/view/9652/8014

  • “Cripping the Welfare Queen: The Radical Potential of Disability Politics.” Social Text 39, no. 3 (September 2021): 79—101.

  • “Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care: A Crip-of-Color Critique.” Co-authored with Sami Schalk. The South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 2 (April 2021): 325—341.

  • “Integrating Race, Transforming Feminist Disability Studies.” Co-authored with Sami Schalk. Signs 46, no. 1 (Autumn 2020): 31—55.

  • “Toward an Infrastructural Sublime: Narrating Interdependency in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Los Angeles.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 45, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 1—24.

  • “Toward a Crip-of-Color Critique: Thinking with Minich’s ‘Enabling Whom?’” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 6, no. 1 (Spring 2017): https://csalateral.org/issue/6-1/forum-alt-humanities-critical-disability-studies-crip-of-color-critique-kim/

  • “‘People of the Apokalis’:  Spatial Disability and the Bhopal Disaster.” Disability Studies Quarterly 34, no. 3 (2014)

Book Chapters

  • “The Garden in the Machine: Grace Lee Boggs’s Living for Change: An Autobiography and Detroit’s Urban-Agrarian Future.” In Asian American Literature in Transition, Volume IV, edited by Betsy Huang and Victor Román Mendoza, 36—55. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

  • “Cripping East Los Angeles: Enabling Environmental Justice in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them.” In Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory, edited by Sarah Jaquette Ray and J.C. Sibara, 502—530. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Review Essays

  • “Disability in an Age of Fascism.” American Quarterly 72, no. 1 (March 2020): 265—276.

Literary and Public Essays

  • “Sick for Mommy: On Gypsy-Rose and Annie Wilkes,” in Mommy Wound, edited by Vick Quezada and Katie Brewer Ball. Catskill, NY: Shandaken Projects, 2024.

  • “Against the Wife: Abolishing Romance and Family, Practicing Disability Love-Politics.” Dilettante Army (Spring 2023): https://dilettantearmy.com/articles/against-the-wife-abolishing-romance-and-family-practicing-disability-love-politics

  • “Love in the Time of Sickness: On Race, Disability, and Intimate Partner Violence.” The Asian American Literary Review 10, no. 2 (Fall/ Winter 2019): 191—202.