New writing: Singing from the margins
Here’s a short piece that just came out on SSRC’s The Immanent Frame: Secularism, religion, and the public sphere blog.… more
Here’s a short piece that just came out on SSRC’s The Immanent Frame: Secularism, religion, and the public sphere blog.… more
“Politically and theologically conservative Korean Protestantism — which constitutes the dominant mainstream and political leadership of Korean Christianity, and is especially prominent among immigrant Korean Americans in the United States — is inextricable from its Cold War collusion with religious and geopolitical-economic reaches of the American empire. This discussion of history — not as a bygone past but as an enduring present — gestures toward my contention that Korean evangelicals are producing Islamophobia as a geopolitical-religious and world orientation project. By aligning Korea with the “Free World” even as Korea reaches out to the developing world, world evangelical missions not only consolidate and reinforce existing affinities and alliances, but also engage in an ongoing calibration of distance and proximity in relation to the empire.”… more
“Becoming Visible, Becoming Political: Faith and Queer Activism in South Korea” has been published in Scholar & Feminist Online 14.2,… more
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
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
I’m giving a talk on queer & evangelical geopolitics next week in Seoul. It’s my first time giving a public academic-y… more
I returned a few days ago from giving a talk in the Program in Transnational Korean Studies at the University of California,… more
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