It's out! 🫣 Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2025)

ICE took Kyungjin Yu on August 6, 2025, a block from Camarena Elementary School in Chula Vista (near San Diego) during morning drop-off, in front of families and staff, with her two children still inside the vehicle. They were later picked up by their father (Yu's ex-husband), according to sources.

They're apparently deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia this time to Uganda, which has a bilateral deportation agreement with the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC-b...

The arrest of LA-area nurse Amanda Trebach who documented ICE operations is putting a spotlight on the risks associated with observing and documenting immigration enforcement in Southern California. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Book talk on Zoom on Wed 8/13 6pm, hosted by City Lights Bookstore @citylightsbooks.bsky.social and @stanfordpress.bsky.social // Registration required. citylights.com/events/jenni... #againstabandonment #booktalk #koreanstudies #protest

In South Korea, protest is a ubiquitous and essential form of political expression. Against Abandonment 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 www.sup.org/books/as...

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

DHS has admitted in court it doesn’t have authority to terminate student non-immigrant status, even when it changes or terminates their SEVIS status, contrary to the info provided by unis to affected students. This admission, a tactic to evade a lawsuit, is grounds for schools to defend students.

"Ms. Chung does not appear to have been a prominent figure in the demonstrations that shook the school last year. But she was one of several students arrested this year in connection with a protest at Barnard College." /1 To read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

From BDS Korea: <<HD현대 주주총회 항의행동>> HD현대, 이스라엘의 팔레스타인 불법 가옥파괴 공모를 멈춰라 🚧일시 | 2025년 3월 27일 오전 9시 30분 🚧장소 | HD현대 글로벌R&D센터 앞 (분당구 분당수서로 477) #bdskorea #solidaritykorea

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"... it is difficult to simply celebrate 4B as a successful example of transnational feminism traveling from the non-West to the West."

S Korea exhibits “traditional family norms centered on heterosexuality/patriarchy, gender inequality in housework/care work within the family, long working hours in the neoliberal order of infinite competition at the cost of leisure and rest...

Colleges and universities continue their FEROCIOUS assaults against students who act in solidarity with Palestine; the students are being doxxed, evicted, harassed, suspended, and punished in myriad ways. Hear them in their own words: hammerandhope.org/article/stud...

This was fun! Thank you for the invite, GW Institute for Korean Studies.

"While an estimated 79% of undocumented residents in L.A. County are natives of Mexico and Central America, Asian immigrants make up the second-largest group, constituting 16% of people in the county without legal authorization, according to the Migration Policy Institute."

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Thanks to The World from PRX for reporting on the prominence of young women in the ongoing protests in Korea, and the fact that many feminists face serious harm (harassment, doxxing, worse) for speaking up against misogyny. I chimed in for a few seconds. @theworld.org

All eyes on Gaza. The ceasefire agreement doesn’t begin for 72 hours and Israel is on a killing spree.

Written by my sister @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social Has the fire ceased? Have the leaders of institutions that sanctioned our slaughter repented? Have the weapons manufacturers been seized? Have the halls of power been turned over to the masses? inthesetimes.com/article/isra...

I took this photo the day before the #lawildfires started. I regularly cycle up to Lake Hollywood but on this day, I went all the way up to the back of the Hollywood sign. My heart goes out to the humans and the wildlife that has been lost in these recent fires. Devastated but hoping for the best.

“Bodies are completely evaporating, and they’re not even finding remains of people anymore,” a UN officer said.

Further South Korea martial law protests as ex-defence minister and senior police arrested

Protestors in South Korea essentially held one of the largest pro-democracy raves in modern history.

If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in Korea, you're not alone. With constant news updates, it's hard to keep track. Here's how I would recap it. #protestKorea #korea2024

Breaking News: South Korean police raided President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office as they investigate whether he committed insurrection by declaring martial law.

Thanks to KYCC and KoreanAmericanStory for producing this video. youtu.be/Qp49DXH-kvc?... #koreanamericanstory #queerkorean

Huge turnout at a rally calling for the impeachment of President Yoon. Very much reminiscent of the vibrant hopefulness of the Candlelight Protests of 2016-17. #protestkorea

June 2025! www.sup.org/books/agains...

Look who's giving a talk at Stanford tomorrow on our co-authored book (forthcoming in 2025)! I won't be there, but I'm sure it'll be amazing. 🙂 Please come by! events.stanford.edu/event/book-t...

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At least 43,846 Palestinians have been killed and 103,740 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, says the enclave’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️