Shayda Kafai
Biographic Data
| ID | 566378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shayda Kafai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shayda |
| FAMILY NAME | Kafai |
| SIGNATURE | KAFAI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State Polytechnic University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imagining Queer, Fat Food Futures
This piece of creative nonfiction explores how we can unlearn food as stigma and shame. It is a love letter to queer, fat community. Using queer as a verb, as a transformative opening, it imagines the liberatory and radical futures we can create when we queer our foods and the normative meanings of fat
The politics of mad femme disclosure
This essay imagines mad femme politics as an intervention and as a strategy that moves disabled, chronically ill, and mad educators and learners toward collective access and liberation. Using personal narrative, femme theory, and mad studies as reference points, the essay explores how a queering of tenderness and vulnerability can empower and embolden the process of disclosure
Reclaiming and Honoring
The Mad Border Body
Sanity and madness have historically and culturally functioned as binary opposites, the former serving as a representation of normalcy, while the latter functions as shorthand for defect and abnormality. This essay examines the artificiality of this binary construction and offers the mad border body as an alternative. Informed by the works of Chicana theorist Gloria Anzaldúa and queer theorist Jacquelyn N. Zita, the mad border body argues that on…
Michelle N. Lafrance. Women and Depression
The politics of mad femme disclosure
This essay imagines mad femme politics as an intervention and as a strategy that moves disabled, chronically ill, and mad educators and learners toward collective access and liberation. Using personal narrative, femme theory, and mad studies as reference points, the essay explores how a queering of tenderness and vulnerability can empower and embolden the process of disclosure
Michelle N. Lafrance. Women and Depression
The Mad Border Body
Sanity and madness have historically and culturally functioned as binary opposites, the former serving as a representation of normalcy, while the latter functions as shorthand for defect and abnormality. This essay examines the artificiality of this binary construction and offers the mad border body as an alternative. Informed by the works of Chicana theorist Gloria Anzaldúa and queer theorist Jacquelyn N. Zita, the mad border body argues that on…
Reclaiming and Honoring
Imagining Queer, Fat Food Futures
This piece of creative nonfiction explores how we can unlearn food as stigma and shame. It is a love letter to queer, fat community. Using queer as a verb, as a transformative opening, it imagines the liberatory and radical futures we can create when we queer our foods and the normative meanings of fat
The politics of mad femme disclosure
This essay imagines mad femme politics as an intervention and as a strategy that moves disabled, chronically ill, and mad educators and learners toward collective access and liberation. Using personal narrative, femme theory, and mad studies as reference points, the essay explores how a queering of tenderness and vulnerability can empower and embolden the process of disclosure
Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)