Based on long-term ethnographic research with labor and social movement activists, Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest is at once a chronicle of the life-and-death character of protesting precarity in South Korea and a searing examination of repertoires of solidarity for upending injustice.… more
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
I was interviewed by email for an article in El País, a center-left Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. I obviously… more
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
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
I contributed an article on queer politics for a Journal of Asian Studies special forum on the South Korean candlelight… more