Join us for a special screening of Until the Stones Speak (2023) on April 11, 6 pm EST. Directed by Kim Kyung-man, this film follows the lives of five women who lived through the devastating turmoil of Jeju 4.3. luc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

DKSC translates a powerful speech by a Korean pro-democratic protester calling for a new vision of democracy as a form of living-with-others. This speech was delivered during a mass demonstration on January 3, 2025, in response to the failed attempt to arrest the recently impeached president Yoon.

Join us for our DKSC workshop, “Bridging Korean and Korean American Studies,” on Fri, Feb 21. Where does Korean American Studies fit within different disciplines? Is it part of Korean Studies' efforts to globalize the field? We invite three interdisciplinary scholars to explore these questions.

웹페이지에 “팔레스타인을 번역하기” 섹션을 새롭게 추가했습니다. 이 섹션은 나크바 이후 이스라엘의 정착민 식민주의와 서구 제국주의의 공모를 젠더화, 성애화, 인종화된 폭력과 재생산 정의의 관점에서 다룬 여러 글들을 한국어로 번역해 싣고 있습니다. 이 작업은 Korean Feminists for Palestine 과의 협업으로 이뤄졌고, 앞으로도 번역 작업을 지속적으로 이어갈 예정입니다. dkscollective.com/resources/4/

The president of South Korea has been arrested and detained, and so has my book manuscript. And it's time to interrogate and investigate what I've ever written?

Please join us for our first "DKSC Reads" to discuss together Minwoo Jung's "Queer Korea Impossible." Links to the article in both Korean/Eng. will be sent upon registration participants are encouraged to read the article beforehand. The event will also be in both Korean/Eng.

2025년, 새로운 시작은 요원하고, 2024년의 찌꺼기들이 너저분하게 깔려있습니다. 저 역시 청소부의 마음으로 제가 남긴 쓰레기를 치우면서 일단 시작해볼까 합니다. 함께 치워야 하는 쓰레기가 있다면 달려가 함께 치우겠습니다. 모두들 단정한 새해를 보내시기를 응원합니다.

The Korean version of my essay, “Queer Theory Impossible” is reprinted in Munhakdongne’s 30th-anniversary anthology. It critiques the US-centric construction of queer theory and its failure when translated globally, highlighting its entrenchment in privileged institutions of the US.

For 20+ hours ppl demand police open the road for farmers who’ve come all the way to Seoul for the protest. More and more people are gathering there claiming the space for dissent. In the end the destination is democracy, not a particular place.

The live stream of the Farmers’ Alliance protest is music to my ears! I’m joining from afar while finishing the semester.

With President Yoon impeached by the National Assembly, the Constitutional Court must now certify the decision. In this moment, we’re sharing a preliminary list of English-language monographs and Korean documentaries to critically understand South Korean democracies: dkscollective.com/resources/3/

At yesterday’s DKSC emergency roundtable, we explored feminist/queer perspectives on protests, the politics of remembering/forgetting, and the positionality of US-based Korean scholars, rethinking democracy beyond US-centric Cold War frameworks while interrogating heteropatriarchal nationalism.

South Korea’s democracies in solidarity with Free Free Palestine!

탄핵 다음 역은... 내란수괴 파면, 판례에 입각한 내란정당 해산, 극우 음모론 미디어 및 이들을 증폭시키는 플랫폼에 책임 물리기, 차별금지법과 성소수자 혼인 법제화 등 다양한 시민들의 보편 평등권 강화, 노란봉투법 플랫폼노동자보호법 등 노동권 보호, 공영언론 거버넌스의 민주화, 군 경 검 지휘체계가 반민주적 명령에 동원되지 못하도록 전면 개혁, R&D 예산이 정치적 요구로부터 독립적으로 움직이도록 정비, 인권위 방심위 등 전향적 판단기준이 필수인 기관들의 우익화 방지 장치, 정당 다양성의 기반인 풀뿌리 지역정당 합법화, 그리고 또

“Women have always been in the square.” True since the 1970s.

This picket, designed by the Feminist-Queer Network for Saving Democracy, reads, “Women have always been present in the square.”

Young women have been leading impeachment protests and other pro-democracy movements in South Korea, yet we’re still hearing comments like this.

하수상한 시국이지만, 그래도 좋은 일은 있습니다. 제 파트너의 단편이 수록된 소설집이 따끈따끈 출간되었습니다. 미국 동부 어드메의 “만한 Manhan”이라는 너무나 작은 도…시(?)에 사는 선윤은 오랜 이민생활을 마치고 한국으로 돌아가게 되었는데, 마을 도서관의 영어 수업에서 예스니아라는 엘살바도르 출신 이민자를 만나게 됩니다. 떠나는 사람, 떠나지 못하는 마음, 머무르는 사람, 머무르지 못하는 마음에 대한 아름답고 안타까운 이야기예요. 많은 관심 부탁드립니다.

From left to right: age groups: 0-9 / 10-19 / 20-29 … Blue: female Green: male Turns out 19% of the participants in the current protest are women in their 20s. Meanwhile, see how low the green bar in the 20s age group is..

"When I write, I use my body. I use all the sensory details of seeing, of listening, of smelling, of tasting, of experiencing tenderness and warmth and cold and pain, of noticing my heart racing and my body needing food and water, of walking and running, [cont.]

늘 새롭게 발견되어야만 하는 젊은 여성의 정치 참여 (…)

솔직히 케이팝 응원봉 기특해요 신기해요 칭찬해요 우쭈쭈 담론이 고깝고 annoying 한 이유

Join us for an emergency roundtable on “K-democracy.” We’ll critically examine the heteronationalist and exceptionalist narratives of Korean democracy, the varied experiences of national “crisis” across communities, and the linkages between Korean exceptionalism and US empire. bit.ly/DKSCEmergency

우리 같이 따라하십시다 친구들 >>겉모습이나 질환, 장애, 정체성 등으로 남을 조롱하지 않는다<< 저도 백 번 따라하고 올게여

Wrong headline, NYT. Should read: Impeachment Vote Foiled by Boycott from Yoon's Allies. Ruling party refused to hold the President accountable for what most South Koreans believe was an act of treason. That's the ruling party's failure -- not the opposition's.

PPP prioritized self-interest over democratic accountability. The conservative party boycotted the impeachment vote, leading to the motion's failure. We’re left with yet another precedent that undermines accountability for serious abuses of power. #SouthKorea #MartialLaw

The ruling party boycotted the impeachment vote. Its fucking name in English is “People Power Party,” which sounds like leftist but it has a long history of deception and complicity. This time, they will see what people power really is. Goodbye fuckers.

South Korean feminists and queer know it all: “The era of rampant masculinity is over. Impeach Yoon. Impeach sexists!”https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/society/women/1171102.html

Many SK activists announce the cancellation of their events they were organizing before what happened last night. It really annoys me. It angers me. What Yoon did to SK last night is wrong, and it’s even worse because now everything is absorbed into only one issue.

South Korea’s largest LGBTQ coalition group, Rainbow Action, issued a statement demanding President Yoon’s resignation: “The Yoon administration, which has driven the rollback of gender equality and incited hatred against sexual minorities, has orchestrated its downfall by declaring martial law.”

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has announced that it will begin an indefinite general strike tomorrow, demanding the immediate resignation of President Yoon Suk-yeol.

기대보다 많은 분들의 관심이 있었던 모양인 제 첫 단편<무지개 너머, 덴마크>가 수록된 <오늘은 오늘의 하루>입니다. www.aladin.co.kr/shop/wproduc...

BREAKING: The South Korean National Assembly could vote to revoke the martial law with a majority vote of its 300 lawmakers, and 190 lawmakers just voted to lift the martial law. Now the question is whether Yoon will actually lift it, as required by law.

WTF is happening in South Korea?

12월이야. 왜.

I’ve wrestled with this chapter for months (or should I say, years?) only to understand I wasn’t ready for it. You won. I’m moving on to another chapter to get a peck of self-assurance. Of course I will suffer again for it but that’s not me now. Sorry, Future Me. F*k u, Past Me.

I discovered /Look Back/ on Amazon Prime. Maybe there’s another path Fujino could take to prevent the tragedy from happening. And it would have created a different timeline in which Kyomoto is still alive because of their deferred encounter. But no matter. We’re blind to futures. 1/3

뭐 쓴김에: 이번 주말은 여기저기 글빚을 갚는 일로 그득그득인데 오늘은 일단 학과에 빚진 글을 끝냈고 (그런거겠지?) 내일은 어디에 보낼 서평을 끝내자. 서평은 짧아서 금방 쓸것만 같은데 그래서 참 오래 걸린다.

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어쨌거나 늘 그랬듯 뭔가 쓸모없는 이야기를 늘어놓다가 어느샌가 눈팅이나 하겠지. 그렇지만 일단 남들 하는 건 다 해보려고 한다.

언어를 지정할 수 있구나. 이게 어떤 작용을 하는지는 모르겠다.

My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...