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Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI); Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; Revaluing Care Lab
Book Conversation with Jina B. Kim: "Care at the End of the World"
Wednesday, October 29,
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Speaker(s): Emily Rogers
In conversation with Emily Rogers, Jina B. Kim will discuss her new book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke University Press 2025), "turning to the literary afterlives of major US welfare reform in 1996 [to consider] feminist- and queer-of-color literature that grapples with the disabling effects of anti-welfare policy."
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
Emily Rogers is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her first book manuscript is Sick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness (in contract with Duke University Press). It looks at myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a debilitating but neglected condition that surfaced as a diagnostic category in the 1980s, arguing that work, the state, and the family structure not only the experience of illness, but who can be recognized as ill in the first place. "Sick work" is an uphill battle in the American context, a for-profit system of provisioning healthcare that relies on work, the family, or meager and stigmatized avenues of state support. Rogers' new work looks at AIDS activists' relationships to alternative medicine in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when treatment options were profoundly constrained or non-existent.
The Care Conversations Series invites leading scholars to discuss new books that reframe care across labor, gender, race, disability, and social justice. Each event pairs the author with a Duke interlocutor for cross-disciplinary dialogue. The Fall 2025 series will take place in Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, and is co-sponsored by the Revaluing Care Lab and campus partners.
Light dinner served. RSVP to RevaluingCareLab@duke.edu. Learn more at www.revaluingcare.org.
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
Emily Rogers is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her first book manuscript is Sick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness (in contract with Duke University Press). It looks at myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a debilitating but neglected condition that surfaced as a diagnostic category in the 1980s, arguing that work, the state, and the family structure not only the experience of illness, but who can be recognized as ill in the first place. "Sick work" is an uphill battle in the American context, a for-profit system of provisioning healthcare that relies on work, the family, or meager and stigmatized avenues of state support. Rogers' new work looks at AIDS activists' relationships to alternative medicine in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when treatment options were profoundly constrained or non-existent.
The Care Conversations Series invites leading scholars to discuss new books that reframe care across labor, gender, race, disability, and social justice. Each event pairs the author with a Duke interlocutor for cross-disciplinary dialogue. The Fall 2025 series will take place in Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, and is co-sponsored by the Revaluing Care Lab and campus partners.
Light dinner served. RSVP to RevaluingCareLab@duke.edu. Learn more at www.revaluingcare.org.
