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A conversation with Jina B. Kim and Emily Rogers
Drawing from Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke University Press)

Wednesday, October 29 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4

Join us for a critical conversation on how crip and of-color writing envisions care as infrastructure—transforming dependency, vulnerability, and endurance into creative and political forces that resist ableist and extractive systems.

🍽 A light dinner will be served. To RSVP, please email revaluingcarelab@duke.edu

Co-sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSF), History Hub, and the Disability Studies Working Group.

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Full Description of the Book

In Care at the End of the World, Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. She examines literature by contemporary feminist, queer, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward, Octavia Butler, Karen Tei Yamashita, Samuel Delany, and Aurora Levins Morales, who each bring disability and dependency to the forefront of their literary freedom dreaming. Kim shows that in their writing, liberation does not take the shape of the unfettered individual or hinge on achieving independence. Instead, liberation emerges by recuperating dependency, cultivating radical interdependency, and recognizing the numerous support systems upon which survival depends. At the same time, Kim demonstrates how theories and narratives of disability can intervene into state-authored myths of resource parasitism, such as the welfare queen. In so doing, she highlights the alternate structures of care these writers envision and their dreams of life organized around reciprocity and mutual support.