All Our Families (with Jennifer Natalya Fink)
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In this episode, Qudsiya is joined by Jennifer Natalya Fink, professor of English and the director of the program in Disability Studies at Georgetown University. They talk about Jennifer’s new book, All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship.
This is a powerful reflection that documents the erasure of disability from our family narratives, the damage that this can cause as we navigate our kinship ties, and how applying the principles of disability justice to bring our disabled ancestors back into our family lineage can help us hold our communities closer in webs of care.
About the guest:
Jennifer Natalya Fink
Jennifer Natalya Fink is director of the Program in Disability Studies and a professor of English at Georgetown University. She is the author of six award-winning books and founder of the Gorilla Press, a nonprofit promoting youth literacy through bookmaking. First and foremost, she is a mother; the transformative experience of parenting her autistic daughter is the center of her work. Her latest work, All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship is now available from Beacon Press.
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