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Cripping The Welfare Queen: The Radical Potential Of Disability Politics, Jina B. Kim
Cripping The Welfare Queen: The Radical Potential Of Disability Politics, Jina B. Kim
English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications
Drawing together feminist- and queer-of-color critique with disability theory, this essay offers a literary-cultural reframing of the welfare queen in light of critical discourses of disability. It does so by taking up the discourse of dependency that casts racialized, low-income, and disabled populations as drains on the state, reframing this discourse as a potential site of coalition among antiracist, anticapitalist, and feminist disability politics. Whereas antiwelfare policy cast independence as a national ideal, this analysis of the welfare mother elaborates a version of disability and women-of-color feminism that not only takes dependency as a given but also mines the figure …
Reclaiming The Radical Politics Of Self-Care: A Crip-Of-Color Critique, Jina B. Kim, Sami Schalk
Reclaiming The Radical Politics Of Self-Care: A Crip-Of-Color Critique, Jina B. Kim, Sami Schalk
English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications
Since 2016, searches for and discussions of self-care in the United States have increased significantly. While authors who identify as people of color and/or queer critique the capitalist co-optation of this term by linking it conceptually to the work of Audre Lorde, engagement with disability remains conspicuously absent all around, given that Lorde’s use of this concept comes from her 1988 essay on cancer, “A Burst of Light.” This article proposes a reclamation of the radical crip, feminist, queer, and racialized roots of self-care offered by Lorde. Using crip-of-color critique, this article argues that a radical politics of self-care is …