"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Queer Throughlines Queer Throughlines draws on years of direct participation, interviews, and ethnography to examine transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activism since the 1990s. Han maps the sites and routes of leftist and que...

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

Horrible, unsympathetic comments on this thread on MissyUSA. missyusa.com/mainpage/boa...

비자 만료 한인 여성, 자녀 등굣길에 체포 | 미주중앙일보 ICE, 초등학교 앞 불체자 단속

비자 만료 한인 여성, 자녀 등굣길에 체포
www.koreadaily.com/article/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.

This was a press conference before the ICE hearing. After the hearing, his wife and attorney emerged without him afterwards. Heartbreaking.

I'm struck by how Kilmar Abrego Garcia is constantly surrounded by a crowd of supporters and touched -- *held* -- by his wife and even the interpreter who holds him with so much compassion.

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia SPEAKS at Rally Ahead of ICE Hearing | SUNRISE YouTube video by The Hill

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...

L.A. volunteers who document ICE raids are being arrested. How to do it safely L.A. County residents have been documenting immigration enforcement since early June. A recent arrest of a volunteer highlights the risk of this work.

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.

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#againstabandonment #booktalk #koreanstudies #protest

Book cover of Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest by Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han

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

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Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

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.

THE DEPARTMENT OF Homeland Security said this week in a Michigan court that the agency does not have the authority to terminate students’ immigration statuses by terminating their records in the Student Exchange and Visitor Information System. Known as SEVIS, the database allows both universities and authorities to track information about international students on visas in the U.S. Homeland Security’s changes to SEVIS, the Trump administration said, have no bearing on a student’s lawful nonimmigrant status. “Terminating a record in SEVIS does not terminate an individual’s nonimmigrant status in the United States,” said Andre Watson, assistant director of the national security division for Homeland Security

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.

"She was, however, accused by the university of joining other students in posting fliers that pictured members of the board of trustees with the phrase “wanted for complicity in genocide.” /4

"Ms. Chung, who majors in English and gender studies, has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations since last year. Her lawyers say that she did not speak to reporters, negotiate on behalf of student demonstrators, or in any other way take a leadership position." /3

"Ms. Chung, a high school valedictorian who moved to the United States with her family from South Korea when she was 7, has not been detained by ICE. She remains in the country, but her lawyers would not comment on her whereabouts." /2

Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation (Gift Article) Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.

"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...

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"한국 기업 HD현대의 굴착기가 이스라엘의 팔레스타인 주민 강제 이주와 불법정착촌 건설에 이용되고 있습니다. 가자지구 학살이 계속되는 가운데 HD현대가 인수 합병한 두산인프라코어의 굴착기가 가자지구에서도 사용되고 있음을 목도했습니다. 그러나 HD현대는 이에 대해 책임을 회피할 뿐입니다.

3월 27일 10시 HD현대 주주총회가 열립니다. 주주총회에 맞추어, 팔레스타인 집과 마을을 부수는데 이용되는 HD현대 굴착기와 이를 방관하고 있는 HD현대를 규탄하고 이스라엘의 불법점령에 공모하는 행위를 멈출 것을 촉구하는 행동을 합니다."

Poster demands that Hyundai stop its collusion with Israel's destruction of Palestinian homes. In the background, a yellow excavator emblazoned with the Hyundai logo tears down a home under the protection from soldiers in full gear, seen in the foreground.

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)

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Do not obey in advance: How to resist Trump and Musk’s tyranny. YouTube video by NYC Council Member Tiffany Cabán

NEW on YouTube:

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I did not author the article. I just reposted it.

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

“In short, it is a society that we do not want to pass on to future generations, a society that is not suitable for giving birth and raising children in, and a society that is not sustainable.”

... gender discrimination in the workplace, worsening discrimination and inequality inflicted on minority groups, a society where a woman is murdered by her partner at least once every three days, and a poverty rate among elderly women of over 60%.”

≪일다≫ You Can’t Raise the Birth Rate Without Addressing Long Working Hours and Job Instability President Yoon Seok-yeol declared a “population national emergency” on June 19, 2024. This was at the 2024 Low Birth Rate and Aging Society Committee meeting held under the theme of ‘measures to

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...

The Palestine Exception on Campus Six current and former students describe the political repression they faced in support of Gaza.

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...

What I meant to say more in the third part was that “protest” doesn’t quite capture the work of mass assembly. Can you imagine how much less accountability there would be in the world if it weren’t for public demonstrations?

I talk about bodies enduring the serious cold (brrrrrr), gender and other heterogeneities, and the uncertainty of the future.

Korea Policy Forum: Citizen Activism YouTube video by GW Institute for Korean Studies

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