Interview with Alexandra Juhasz, August 7, 2023
Dr. Jih-Fei Cheng is Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Scripps College. Previously, he worked in HIV/AIDS social services, managed a university cultural center, has been involved in arts and media production and curation, and has participated as a board or steering committee member for various queer and trans of color community-based organizations in Los Angeles and New York City, such as the Fabulous Independent Educated Radicals for Community Empowerment! (FIERCE!) and the Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York.
His organizing work has addressed the issues of queer and transgender health, immigration, gentrification and youth homelessness, police harassment and brutality, and prison abolition. Cheng’s research examines the intersections between science, media, surveillance, and social movements. He is co-editor with Alexandra Juhasz and Nishant Shahani of AIDS and the Distribution of Crises (Duke UP 2020).