Wed, Mar 20 2024, 4:30 - 6pm
Campus Center
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Cole Cinema
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Visibility of Disability: Exploring the Intersectionality of Disability, Race and Gender | "Care at the End of the World: Health/care Infrastructure and Wild Disability Justice Life-Writing"
Dr. Jina B. Kim is a writer, scholar, and educator of feminist disability studies and queer-of-color critique. She is Assistant Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. Her book, Dreaming of Infrastructure: Crip-of-Color Writing after the U.S. Welfare State (Duke University Press, forthcoming), demonstrates why we need radical disability politics and aesthetics for navigating contemporary crises of care. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Signs, Social Text, GLQ, American Quarterly, Disability Studies Quarterly, South Atlantic Quarterly, and The Asian American Literary Review.
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WGSX Program, Lecture & Fine Arts Committee
Angela Rae Draheim
ardraheim@smcm.edu
240-895-4290
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