Considering the 4B movement…
One more news story about the 4B movement. I talked to CNN a couple of days ago.… more
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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
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
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
[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
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