Considering the 4B movement…
One more news story about the 4B movement. I talked to CNN a couple of days ago.… more
South Korea’s 4B movement gaining traction in the U.S.
I received a flurry of emails from journalists covering this story this week, which was a bit surprising. Really? 4B in the U.S.? Huh?… more
Against Scholasticide
The destruction of education systems and buildings is known as “scholasticide,” which describes the systemic destruction of Palestinian education within the context of Israel’s decades-long settler colonization and occupation of Palestine.… more
New writing: “Placing Infrastructure,” Korean Anthropology Review (2023)
I contributed a short commentary essay about a Los Angeles Koreatown megachurch and its parking lot controversy for the latest issue of Korean Anthropology Review: A journal of Korean anthropology in translation.… more
Quoted in El País article
I was interviewed by email for an article in El País, a center-left Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. I obviously… more
[CFP] Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Korea
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be co-editing Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Korea, a volume in the “Detours” series of alternative guide books. It’s a public-facing project that centers interdisciplinary, creative, and demilitarist feminist approaches, with aims to defamiliarize the ways in which Korea is popularly depicted by and consumed through a global tourist gaze.… more
GYOPO lecture mentioned in Korea Times
Very cool. A public lecture Jennifer and I did back in 2019 got a shoutout in a Korea Times article… more
On feminist politics – The Nordic Asia Podcast
I had the pleasure of speaking with Myunghee Lee, a political scientist and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) based at the University of Copenhagen, for an episode of The Nordic Asia Podcast. We wanted to address the Presidential election in South Korea with a feminist lens and offer a broader historical context for the anti-feminist movement that’s been getting a lot of attention lately, #MeToo, and movements for justice for the survivors of the “comfort women” system.… more
New writing: “Out of Place in Time: Queer Discontents and Sigisangjo” (2022)
This article in The Journal of Asian Studies discusses queer and transgender voices that took part in the South Korean Candlelight Protests of 2016–17 but became sidelined during the special election that followed. Drawing from theories of queer temporality and feminist critiques of homogenous time, I argue that idioms of postponement (najunge) and prematurity (sigisangjo) have significantly shaped liberal political discourses regarding the timing and timeliness of social change and minority politics in South Korea.… more
Interview on South Korean feminism
Back in September 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with Jorlen Garcia, a student journalist at Claremont McKenna College. We talked about wide-ranging topics such as K-pop (of course), spy cams, and overall climates of patriarchy and gender inequality in South Korea. She did an amazing job editing the interview, which is published online at Asia Experts Forum.… more
LAist story about queer and religious politics
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of speaking with Aaron Schrank, a religion and diaspora reporter who has produced… more
The Korea Herald article on Korean Studies at UCLA
I spoke with The Korea Herald last quarter — already a few months ago — and this article came out.… more
[CFP] Energy in Asia
A conference at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)—Organized by EnviroLab at the Claremont Colleges and the Center for… more