[1] Kafer won the 2008 Southwestern Teaching Award for her "outstanding performance in the classroom" as a non-tenured faculty member.
[5] Kafer's major work, a book titled Feminist, Queer, Crip, was published by Indiana University Press in 2013.
The book was well received in academic journals, although Barbara Neukirchinger in Feminist Review stated, "... it runs a risk of not being accessible to a wider audience outside of academia".
"[9] Jenny Slater of the journal Disability & Society stated, "[T]his book will be of interest to activists, students and academics, working along feminist, queer, crip lines, who want to imagine futures otherwise.
"[10] Victoria Kannen of the Journal of Gender Studies gave the book a positive review, and stated Kafer "convincingly argues the ways in which disability is political".
[13] Emma Sheppard of the Journal of the International Network for Sexual Ethics & Politics stated Feminist, Queer, Crip is "intensely personal" for Kafer, as she recounts her own disability in within the book and draws on other stories as well.
[14] Eve Lacey of Studies in the Maternal said that Kafer "writes with an acute awareness of intersectionality and her understanding of reproductive politics repeatedly challenges ableist notions of care, future, and productivity".
[20] Kafer co-edited the book Deaf and Disability Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, published by Gallaudet University Press in 2010, with Susan Burch.