Minwoo Jung
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Sociologist at Loyola University Chicago
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Sociologists for Palestine
16 days ago
S4P rejects ASA leadership's authoritarian decision to bypass its own procedures & membership engagement re: our BDS resolution. If the resolution is not considered via existing procedures we will BOYCOTT the 2026 meeting. SIGN ON TO JOIN US:
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Response to ASA's Letter to Membership on "ASA Policy, Member-Led Petitions, and ASA's Future"
NAMES WILL NEVER BE SENT TO THE ASA WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, DATA WILL BE SUMMARIZED & SHARED PLEASE INDICATE BELOW IF YOU ARE WILLING TO HAVE YOUR NAME INCLUDED IN COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE ASA To memb...
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Zachary Levenson
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On Thursday, Florida's Board of Governors removed sociology from the general education curriculum of every university in the state. Chancellor Ray Rodrigues attacked the
@asanews.bsky.social
as illegitimate. On behalf of sociologists everywhere, I respond to them in today's
@miamiherald.com
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)
9 days ago
The downfall of *Theory and Society* is a networked event. A nicely orchestrated campaign. Thread of some of the links. 1/
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BSA Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions Study Group
17 days ago
📣Launch Event Friday 10 April 15:30! Join us for a library tour & archive workshop, introduction to the Group, food & drinks and a social event at Working Class Movement Library in Manchester during
@britsoci.bsky.social
Conference. DM us or email
[email protected]
. Details below👇
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Sociologists for Palestine
19 days ago
Sociologists for Palestine have asked members to send us the letters they have written to
@asanews.bsky.social
. We are sharing them here as evidence of how unpopular this decision is with the ASA membership. Please amplify this thread & any letters that resonate with your position.
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Miriam Posner
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Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.
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If you’re working on LGBTQ+ movements or rights and thinking about ASA submissions tonight, I’m organizing two connected panels on queer/trans movements and LGBTQ+ rights in times of crisis and backlash. Submissions are due tonight at 9PM (EST). Thanks for considering!
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Zachary Levenson
about 1 month ago
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Bookshop.org
2 months ago
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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Celine DaHyeu Kim
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I also wanted to add some thoughts about “what’s the point of making art/comic/zines in this horrible world”. And let me hold your hands and tell you this. Because they bring joy to people that appreciates the craft. They bring light and a moment to smile in this god awful world. It matters.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
2 months ago
“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in
@theguardian.com
written with my friend
@victorerikray.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/ice-abolition-humanity
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Mary Robinette Kowal
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If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.
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How are young people around the world organizing amid a global polycrisis—democratic backsliding, rising fascism, war/genocide & climate catastrophe? Join the ASA CBSM
@asa-cbsm.bsky.social
virtual conversation on Global Youth Mobilization! 📅 Dec 8, 2025, 11AM (Chicago Time) RSVP:
bit.ly/3K1ZUIi
4 months ago
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Join us for a workshop on publishing books in Korean studies (broadly defined). Speakers will tackle questions like: How long from idea to contract? How to pitch to editors? What goes in the book vs. articles? How to stay authentic? 🗓 Nov 12 (Wed), 3:30-5PM EST 🔗 Sign up:
bit.ly/dkscbookwork...
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5 months ago
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Join us for a virtual conversation with ASA Human Rights Section Book Award winners, Chana Teeger and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, on race, memory, and injustice. I’ll be moderating this discussion. 📅 November 19 (Wed) 10–11 AM CST / 4–5 PM GMT RSVP:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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A new article out: “Flexible Masculinities: Negotiating Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Global Asia.” I introduce the concept of “flexible masculinities” to understand how people navigate shifting gender norms across different cultural and geographic contexts.
doi.org/10.1177/0011...
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Flexible masculinities: Negotiating gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in global Asia - Minwoo Jung, 2025
How do individuals navigate various forms of hegemonic masculinity as they traverse different geographic and cultural boundaries? This article introduces the co...
https://doi.org/10.1177/00113921241275685
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Please spread the word! 📢 My PhD student Kajal Patel is recruiting interviewees for her dissertation research on the children of Gujarati immigrant families. If you grew up helping in your family’s business, please share your stories with Kajal: 📧
[email protected]
6 months ago
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I’ll be visiting Budapest as a Junior Fellow at the IAS-CEU
@iasceu.bsky.social
during Fall 2025. I look forward to engaging with other fellows, visiting scholars, and artists in residence. Friends and colleagues passing through Eastern Europe are most welcome to connect.
6 months ago
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Join us for a roundtable reflecting on the decade since Feminism Reboot (2015), a turning point in feminist and queer politics and scholarship in South Korea. Together, we’ll reflect on what has shifted, what has stalled, and what futures we might imagine. Register here:
bit.ly/46jg871
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6 months ago
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I’ll be giving talks both in Taipei and Seoul later this month. If anybody’s around, please feel free to come by and connect.
7 months ago
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My new open-access article in the British Journal of Sociology explores how Korean queer activists envision and enact social change by rethinking “the global”—shifting from UN human rights frameworks to regional solidarities across Asia.
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Decolonizing the Global: Contested Cosmopolitanisms in Global Queer Activism
In the last decade, the “decolonial turn” has gained prominence across academic disciplines, challenging inherent Eurocentric knowledge paradigms. Extending these conversations, this paper critically....
https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13217
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Eighty years ago today in 1945, Korea was freed after 35 years under Japanese colonial rule—a day we remember as “the day the light returned (광복절).” On this anniversary, many Koreans hold in hearts the hope of liberation for other occupied lands and colonized peoples.
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Two days ago, a 23-year-old Vietnamese construction worker, Ngo Duy Long, died from heatstroke at a worksite in South Korea. It was his first day on the job. While Korean workers left at 1PM in 99°F heat, Long and other migrant workers worked until 4PM. He was found collapsed, body temp 104.4°F.
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‘폭염’ 한국인 낮 1시 퇴근…이주노동자만 4시까지 일 시키다 사망
경북 구미에서 폭염 속 20대 베트남 국적 노동자가 숨진 가운데 이주노동자들만 혹서기 단축 근무를 하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 노동단체는 폭염 휴식 의무화 적용을 하루빨리 시행해야 한다고 촉구했다. 전국건설노조 대구경북건설지부는 9일 오전 대구시 수성구 대구고용노동청
https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/area/yeongnam/1207066.html
9 months ago
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How ironic that the deeply homophobic government of my home country, South Korea, is sponsoring an international screening of a queer film—Love in the Big City (2024), based on Sang Young Park’s bestselling novel—as a representation of K-culture abroad. 🤷♂️
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Yesterday, queer activists from the national LGBTQ coalition Rainbow Action and Palestine solidarity activists issued a joint statement urging an end to the silence on Palestine. Over 3,000 Korean LGBTQ community members and allies have signed the solidarity petition:
campaigns.do/campaigns/1577
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[한국 성소수자 - 팔레스타인 연대 성명] 집단학살에 침묵, 공모하는 프라이드는 없다 - 팔레스타인의 반식민 투쟁에 | 빠띠
[한국 성소수자 - 팔레스타인 연대 성명] 집단학살에 침묵, 공모하는 프라이드는 없다 - 팔레스타인의 반식민 투쟁에 적극적으로 연루되자! 우리는 말한다. 이 땅의 생명으로서, 인간으로서, 비인간동물의 이웃으로서, 성소수자로서, 차별과 배제의 폭력을 경험해온 이들로서, 동시에 저항의 힘을 만들어낸 이들로서, 팔레스타인에 이어지는 학살의 목격자로서, 절멸의 위...
https://campaigns.do/campaigns/1577
10 months ago
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As South Korea’s newly elected President Lee Jae-myung pledges to rebuild democracy, revive the economy, and foster a just and safe society, several long-running grassroots protests across the country highlight challenges ahead and call on the government to turn promises into meaningful action.
10 months ago
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“Can the past help the present? Can the dead save the living?” (Han Kang)
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In this collective conversation at
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, Jyoti Puri, Sa’ed Atshan, Zine Magubane, and I discussed the intersections of empire, race, sexuality, and gender in history and in the present.
doi.org/10.1177/3033...
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“As a field largely institutionalized within US academia during the Cold War, Korean studies has long operated as a knowledge project that served the strategic and ideological interests of the US empire. The production of academic knowledge about Korea was never neutral.”
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“Gwangju is not over. The perpetrators have never been fully held accountable, and South Korea’s official narrative of post-dictatorship democracy has obscured the enduring effects of military rule… Gwangju is not just a traumatic event happened in 1980—it remains deeply embedded in the present.”
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Lee Ok-sun, a survivor of the Japanese military‘s wartime sexual slavery system known as “comfort women,” has died at the age of 97. Her death leaves only six registered survivors of the officially recognized victims.
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일본군 ‘위안부’ 피해 이옥선 할머니 별세…생존자 6명 뿐
일본군 ‘위안부’ 피해자인 이옥선 할머니가 건강 악화로 별세했다. 향년 97. 여성가족부는 11일 이 할머니가 이날 저녁 8시께 성남의 한 요양병원에서 세상을 떠났다고 밝혔다. 경기 광주시 나눔의집에서 생활해오던 이 할머니는 지난해 3월부터 건강 문제로 요양병원에서 지
https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/society_general/1196897.html
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Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea, is shutting down its Women’s Studies grad program (one of only two independent departments in the country) merging it into Sociology, sparking strong backlash against an undemocratic move disguised as a response to low enrollment and financial strain.
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"여성학과 죽이기 프로젝트"…계명대 대학원 여성학과 통합 결정 반발
계명대학교가 1990년부터 35년간 대구·경북 지역 성평등 연구의 거점이 돼온 대학원 여성학과를 폐지하고 사회학과 세부전공으로 통합한다. 대학본부가 별도의 학과를 유지해달라는...
https://www.pressian.com/pages/articles/2025041421521112393
11 months ago
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How can I stay ethically and politically grounded while still extending care and generosity? Keep my eyes open to pain and injustice without being paralyzed by despair? Long for more without letting it turn into self-doubt or resentment? The long spring semester’s over, but nothing feels clear.
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In the US, screenings of documentaries like No Other Land and The Encampments have been banned or canceled on campuses. In South Korea, a university-run theater has banned the screening of queer films. What’s allowed on campus speaks volumes about the current landscape of higher education.
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Professor Kim Seok-ho, the chair of the sociology department at Seoul National University recently joined the presidential campaign of former acting president Han Duck-soo as its head fundraiser. Han is widely recognized as a key figure in the self-coup attempt by impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol.
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서울대 학생들 "한덕수 후원회장 맡은 교수, 내란공범 지지 용납 못해"
한덕수 캠프 후원회장을 맡은 김석호 서울대 사회학과 학과장이 "한덕수 지지는 내란수괴 윤석열 정권 지지와 다르지 않다"는 비판과 함께 제자들에게 후원회장직 즉각 사퇴를 요구받...
https://www.pressian.com/pages/articles/2025050616421900319
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2025 marks 50 years since the end of the US war in Vietnam. Yet South Korea’s role, including its troops’ violence against civilians, remains underacknowledged. Tied to US-led militarism, Korean soldiers served as racialized, gendered labor in a broader system of imperial violence and exploitation.
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Surrogate Military, Subimperialism, and Masculinity: South Korea in the Vietnam War, 1965-73 | positions | Duke University Press
https://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article-abstract/17/3/655/21498/Surrogate-Military-Subimperialism-and-Masculinity
11 months ago
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Please join the ASA Global/Transnational Section and UP Diliman for the virtual event, Decolonizing Sociology: Centering the Global South. Panelists will share their visions for decolonization led by the Global South. May 2 (Fri), 9AM EST, 1PM GMT | Zoom:
tinyurl.com/ASAGATSUP
| PW: UPDiliman
11 months ago
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Join us for a virtual conversation exploring global resistance to democratic backsliding. We’ll discuss how social movements are pushing back against right-wing regimes around the world, with a focus on immigration, higher eduction, and gender and reproductive justice. Register:
bit.ly/CBSMevent
11 months ago
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The new ASA journal, Sex & Sexualities, has launched, and its inaugural issue will be released in May. I‘ve joined the editorial board with amazing colleagues.
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However painful, spring does come.
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In dark times, when a public post on social media can lead to enforced disappearance or human trafficking, community building and organizing take place in unexpected and unseen spaces, beyond our CVs.
12 months ago
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It’s hard to keep up with anything these days, but I’m grateful that my new article, “Decolonizing the Global: Contested Cosmopolitanisms in Global Queer Activism,” is finally out—after seven rejections over eight years:
doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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We’re organizing a publication mentoring workshop for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars whose work engages with Korea (broadly defined) or the Korean diaspora. Selected participants will be matched with expert mentors for in-depth feedback. Submit your work-in-progress by May 9!
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Join us on Friday for a special community screening of Until the Stones Speak 돌들이 말할 때까지, which follows the stories of five women who survived the Jeju April 3 Massacre and state violence during the Cold War. This event also commemorates other instances of state violence in South Korea.
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12 months ago
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Solidarity for LGBT Human Rights of Korea released a statement celebrating Yoon’s impeachment and calling for the opening of a “spring of equality”: “Citizens insisted that a regime change is not enough, and that we cannot return to the pre-martial law ‘normalcy.’”
12 months ago
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South Korean President Yoon was removed from office 123 days after attempting martial law, following a unanimous Constitutional Court ruling. People across Korea are celebrating in the streets, while millions in the Korean diaspora watched the decision via livestream.
12 months ago
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South Korea is burning, with wildfires engulfing a quarter of the country and killing 18. The disaster was worsened by the right-wing government’s budget cuts to prevention. Yet, instead of deploying water cannons to fight the flames, they used them to suppress pro-democracy protesters in Seoul.
about 1 year ago
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Activists from various groups in South Korea have been on a hunger strike for over a week since the release of the impeached president. Among them is my dear friend, Horim Yi—a public health scholar and LGBTQ activist. In these dark times, I try to find hope in their courage and perseverance.
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I saw a live theater show at a community center. Afterward, the director explained how federal budget cuts to the NEA are hurting theaters citywide. Still, they refuse to censor or change their programs. I admired their commitment to their values—and felt ashamed that higher ed gives in so easily.
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For years, US-South Korea joint military exercises (“war games”) have led to injuries and deaths among Korean civilians, and it’s infuriating to see this cycle repeating over and over.
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