Jasbir K. Puar is Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia. Since the early 2000s, she has been at the forefront of the research and thought about the links between space, violence, and sexuality, among many other topics. Via the intersection of queer realities, terrorism, space, and politics, her research has informed and nourished activist and scholarly debates on how we understand geopolitics, the international visibility of gender and sexuality, settler colonialism and imperialism, and capacity and disability. Throughout her work we may find the key role of the State as a not at all innocent nexus in which bodies, identities, and violence take shape and are distributed. She is the author, among many other publications, of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2017) and The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2022). She is currently working on her third book Slow Life: Settler Colonialism in Five Parts, which continues her exploration of the role of maiming and debilitation in the creation of disposable populations in Palestine and elsewhere.

She is also co-author of exhibitions for the Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2019) and the Sharjah Art Biennial (2023).