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Jackson (they/she) lives and works on Wendat, Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabe territory. They identify as crip/queer of Scottish/white settler ancestry from mixed class background (of poverty and manual labour). As an artist/activist/academic, Jackson has worked for over 30 years within the long tradition of survival and resistance to colonial-capitalism as a system of violence and trauma. Their work includes prison abolition, anti-gentrification and community building with wageless and unhoused communities. They currently practices relational praxis art – a method that supports the political subjecthood, agency, informal economic practices and epistemic expertise of intersectionally marginalized communities. Jackson received their PhD in Environmental Studies at York University.

Currently I am researching and writing on the carceral continuum and how the logics of social violence infuse non-prison sites, specifically shelters for the unhoused, social housing and urban space. As an artist, I am also working with the Shelter Video Collective on a feature length experimental documentary video on conditions in a Toronto shelter designated for 'women.' The Shelter Video Collective is made up of, and  centers, peoples with lived expertise of poverty, being unhoused and the shelter system alongside ally accomplices. I prioritize working across, and carefully attending to, multiple intersectional differences as a way to transgress the hierarchization of our bodies under cis-white-ablist-hetero-patriarchy. This includes grounding in a decolonial and abolitionist perspective as well as a political economy of marginalization.

• Johanne Wendy Bariteau & KJ2 Collective (2021). "The double-bind of labour in prison: Guerin v. Canada." Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. Forthcoming.
• Berry Shirley, Rebecca Garrett, Kim Jackson, Lisa Lavoie, Lisa LaBlanc, Minutet Nima & Opal Sparks. “The Shelter Video Project: We Want You To Listen …” in Rinaldi, Jen and Katherine Rossiter (Eds.) The Institutional Violence Anthology (working title). McGill-Queen's University Press. Forthcoming.
• davis halifax, n. v. & L.K. Jackson (2018). "Service restriction: making homelessness harder" in Not a New Problem: Violence in the Lives of Women with Disabilities, Michelle Owens, Janice Ristock & Diane Hiebert-Murphy (Eds.). Winnipeg: Fernwood.
• L.K. Jackson (2017) “The complications of colonialism for Marxist geography and gentrification theory.” Journal of Law and Social Policy, 27: 43-71.
• Jen Rinaldi, Katherine Rossiter, L. K. Jackson. (2017). “Canadian Journal of Disability Studies Special Issue: Institutional Survivorship Editorial Introduction,” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 6.3, p. 1-12.
• Garrett, Rebecca & L.K. Jackson (2016). "Art, Labour and Precarity in the Age of Veneer Politics," Alternate Routes, vol 27. 279-299.