S&F Online: “Becoming Visible, Becoming Political”
“Becoming Visible, Becoming Political: Faith and Queer Activism in South Korea” has been published in Scholar & Feminist Online 14.2,… more
Writing
“Queer Korean Studies” presentation at AAS 2016
I was cleaning up some files and thought I’d share this here. It’s from the “Spring Forward, Fall Back?: Progress and Challenges in Korean Gender Studies” panel organized by Hyaeweol Choi (Australian National University) at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) meeting in Seattle nearly a year ago on April 2, 2016. I presented some comments (and stories) about queer politics.… more
The politics of homophobia in South Korea – EAFQ
A short primer on my ongoing/upcoming work on queer geopolitics in East Asia Forum Quarterly, published by the Australian National University. I highlighted the Christian Liberal Party (CLP), military conscription system, HIV/AIDS, and Islamophobia on the rise.… more
Queer geopolitics talk in Seoul on June 8
I’m giving a talk on queer & evangelical geopolitics next week in Seoul. It’s my first time giving a public academic-y… more
Lecture at UCSD on Feb 18: “How Pink Turned Red”
I returned a few days ago from giving a talk in the Program in Transnational Korean Studies at the University of California,… more
Two new articles published
Two articles recently published. ‘Our Past, Your Future’ discusses Korean missionaries’ work in East Africa and ‘Urban megachurches and contentious religious politics in Seoul’ is about E.Land labour organizing and connections to Somang Church.… more
Writing Queer Geo/politics
I’m both very honoured and a little embarrassed to see this article published in Munhwa/Gwahak, a well-regarded cultural politics journal… more
Gender and Politics in Contemporary Korea, Journal of Korean Studies 19:2
At last, the special thematic issue on gender and politics in contemporary Korea I co-edited with Jennifer Jihye Chun has been published by the Journal of Korean Studies! “In this thematic issue on gender and politics in contemporary Korea, we broaden both our historical view and geographical reach… By featuring articles that examine the complex workings of gender and power in multiple sites and at multiple levels of analysis, this issue shows how gender is intimately bound with inequalities, not only between women and men but also in all social relations concerning class, sexuality, ethnicity, race, migration, and the nation.”… more