I spoke as a panelist for the Korea Policy Forum organized by the George Washington University’s Institute for Korean Studies and shared some thoughts about the cold weather, gender and other politics of difference, and the uncertain future ahead.… more
Online harassment and doxxing of feminists continue to be a serious issue.… more
This was perhaps the most in-depth interview I did on the 4B phenomenon. “Han says that they hope this blip in interest about 4B fades into the next news cycle, as there are so many other forms of intersectional South Korean feminism that do include queer and trans people.”… more
One more news story about the 4B movement. I talked to CNN a couple of days ago.… more
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
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
I spoke with The Korea Herald last quarter — already a few months ago — and this article came out.… more
I was interviewed by email for an article in El País, a center-left Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. I obviously… more
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
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