Considering the 4B movement…
One more news story about the 4B movement. I talked to CNN a couple of days ago.… more
Korea
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
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
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
Feb 17 Roundtable on the Candlelight Protests
I contributed an article on queer politics for a Journal of Asian Studies special forum on the South Korean candlelight… more
Comments on ‘spycam porn’ protests
I did a radio interview last week for a station in Southern California. As always with these things, there is a lot I didn’t get to say but I am glad I got to intervene and resist interpreting the phenomenon as somehow a “cultural” thing.… more
A queer critique of the South-North Korea Summit
My heart weeps with queer feminist friends who resent this political agenda that so clearly separates peace and justice, that so clearly prioritizes military peace over social justice and human rights.… more
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
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