Maternal paradox ‘Scientific motherhood’ promised to create high standards for child-rearing. But it’s really a system designed to police women aeon.co/essays/how-s...

The paradox of digital safety: Deepfakes, AI and gendered risk in South Korea lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...

Misinformation About Birth Control and Breast Cancer Swirls A massive Swedish study examined hormonal birth control risks. But the nuances of such studies get lost on social media. undark.org/2025/11/24/m...

Legalizing same-sex marriage is still unpopular in South Korea. But does it need to be popular? www.koreaherald.com/article/1062...

"Isolation is so seductive when the world is falling apart." open.substack.com/pub/jwokim/p...

Japan to Schools: Don’t Dock Attendance for Groping Victims unseen-japan.com/groping-assa...

Men of the Manosphere review – a truly terrifying hour www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Huh. I never realized Roe vs. Wade had such a big impact on overseas adoption from South Korea🤔: "...the legalization of abortion in 1973 in the U.S. created a shortage of White children available for domestic adoption. This was coupled with..." 1/ sapiens.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

The science of love: Why romantic rituals appear in every society A look at the ancient brain systems that keeps us falling in love. bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/the-scienc...

Did You Also Have a Yakult Mom Growing Up? "In Southern China, the iconic 'Yakult moms' wear red uniforms and would stop by your house to delivery probiotic drinks, with a decades-old story of community, care, and women empowerment." radii.co/article/chin...

Boning up for my lecture tomorrow 🤔 thegrandnarrative.com/2021/03/15/k...

Just HAD TO buy this once I saw that title 🤓 Alas, the "변태" actually meant "metamorphosis," not...🥺

YouTuber’s sexual assault confession sparks renewed #MeToo movement in Korea www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/l...

How Colonial-Era Hong Kong Sold Medicine to the Modern Woman radii.co/article/colo...

Yes, it's a dirty job. And yes, strictly speaking, the 송혜교 ad wasn't all *that* necessary... But *someone* had to teach these damn kids. So, I was determined to make this potentially awkward subject as lighthearted and fun as possible. Especially for me! 😍 But seriously though...1/

*cough* Korean *cough* dramas *ahem*

EPISODE SIX - THE STORY OF SOUTH KOREA, FROM REGULATION TO DEEPFAKE What can we learn about age verification, regulation, tech based abuse and deep fake technology from Korea? www.headlineproductions.net/originalpodc...

OPEN ACCESS Book Announcement! Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora judyhan.com/post/5381

소...my apartment is at the far end of my floor's hallway—many people posting fliers just don't bother with my door. Or if they do, they just half-ass it, or post things on the 소화전 cover next to it. OR... 🤗

The Women Who Fought Japan’s Empire "Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s role in fighting against the Japanese Empire, brilliantly brought to life in two recent novels." jacobin.com/2025/10/lite...

About all the clickbait BS out there, which unfortunately is immensely popular. Applies to content about Korea too. youtube.com/watch?v=jEWh...

After the deadly 2022 Itaewon crowd crush, South Korea faced a failure of prevention—and mourning. A group of anthropologists explores how grief was managed, marginalized, and ultimately erased, raising questions about who we remember and why. www.sapiens.org/culture/mour...

Slowly creeping closer to recognizing gay marriage. It is probably inevitable given the way their current constitution is structured, but we'll see. It might, if accompanied by an associated reduction in other stigmas and restrictions, even help with the birth rate.

South Korea officially recognises same-sex couples in national census www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/22/s...

"Sometimes, it seems like everyone hates women for simply existing." open.substack.com/pub/jaehakim...

Do Dreams Give Voice to the Divine? www.sapiens.org/culture/drea...

"Bad Bad Girl" by Gish Jen asianreviewofbooks.com/bad-bad-girl... via @BookReviewsAsia

😲 www.instagram.com/p/DP5ImUEEiD...

‘I survived at 40kg’: K-pop idols speak out about extreme dieting and health struggles www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainmen...

Film Director Atsushi Funahashi in Conversation with Asato Ikeda: "Company Retreat" (2022), Sexual Violence, and the Unconscious of the Time apjjf.org/2025/9/ikeda

Book Review: How Childbirth Has Shaped Civilization undark.org/2025/10/10/b... via @undarkmag

Bunny Yeager’s Feminist Pin-Up Girls A new documentary, Naked Ambition, centers the photographer’s woman-forward approach to the nude subject. hyperallergic.com/1043390/bunn...

Half of all anorexia patients in 2024 were teenagers, 82% of them girls www.koreaherald.com/article/1057...

'Keep it on': Shirtless joggers are frowned upon in Korea, but some push back www.koreaherald.com/article/1057...

‘Men don’t know why they became unhappy’: the toxic gender war dividing South Korea www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Beginning to get the hang of this professoring thing...🤓 With the last, during the group work on giving their thoughts and feelings about school uniform rules, many students struggled to express themselves in English. So I relented and suggested they use translation programs. 1/

Japanese Police Consider Changing Anti-Stalking Law After Murder unseen-japan.com/japan-stalki...

Unknown Korean Artist, Tigers (smoking opium) Source: www.tumblr.com/nobrashfesti...

Thousands of women writing and speaking for decades with all the creativity and feeling possible about the wrongness of rape can’t make sexual violence stop or even be understood as real violence but RFK Jr croaking “beef tallow is the philosopher’s stone” has the force of policy now

The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.

The Woman Scientist and Artist Who Revolutionized the Study of Mushrooms hyperallergic.com/1029741/mary...

The Fear of Bare, Naked Ladies’ Faces The mask, like the veil, is seen by the anxious West as concealing a racialized female subject in need of liberation from a backward culture. daily.jstor.org/the-fear-of-...

In South Korea, Rising Cost of Sanitary Pads Spurs Backlash and Calls for Support koreabizwire.com/in-south-kor...

"Blossom of Moonlight II" by Choi Yeong-Geol (Korean, B. 1968) Source: www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5...

How to get help at a Sunflower Center in Korea (Content warning - Sexual Assault) www.reddit.com/r/korea/comm...

[Women in Politics] Rep. Kang Kyung-sook says politics is for the weak and solidarity is key www.newscj.com/news/article...

Navigating South Korea’s “Unwritten” Societal Rules: Lessons from ‘Our Unwritten Seoul’ disq.us/t/4vd9itq

Western Travel Writers or Japanese War Propagandists? daily.jstor.org/western-trav...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any gentleman *not* in possession of a working aircon, must be in support of #freethenipple. Am not being facetious—*I* at least, have the privilige of being virtually naked right now to help endure the heat (and you're welcome). 1/