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WBAI Radio Interview with Cathi Choi on the Fight for Democracy in South Korea
December 16, 2024
KTSC on the Street 1: Protests Against Yoon Suk Yeol in Koreatown
December 11, 2024
WATCH: Memoir, Trauma, and Healing for the Korean Diaspora with Grace M. Cho and Iris Yi Youn Kim
October 15, 2024
In our third Intergenerational Healing and Learning gathering, author and professor Grace M. Cho and journalist and writer Iris Yi Youn Kim presented their work and discussed how memoir can act as a vessel for unpacking and healing intergenerational trauma, especially for members of the Korean diaspora. In her interview with MOLD, Grace explained that many in the Korean diaspora live under the conditions of “enforced forgetting.” In gathering, we seek to remember and reclaim our histories.
Grace M. Cho’s work sits at the crossroads of creative nonfiction and interdisciplinary scholarship, exploring the ways in which residues of state violence and historical trauma permeate the intimate spaces of the here and now. As a sociologist, she approaches storytelling as an opportunity to broaden the lens through which readers see personal experience. In her memoir, Tastes Like War, Cho chronicles her mother’s struggle with schizophrenia and how her mother’s traumas from the war may have contributed to her mental illness. Iris is currently a 2024 NBCU Academy Storyteller. She was part of the 30 Under 30 Cohort that attended the 2023 Korea Peace Action national mobilization, and is currently working on a collection of essays about the reverberations of immigration and assimilation within Korean American communities.
Grace M. Cho is the author of Tastes Like War (Feminist Press, 2021), a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award in nonfiction and the winner of the 2022 Asian Pacific American Literature Award in adult nonfiction. Her first book, Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), received a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association. Her writings have appeared in The Nation, Catapult, The New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Contexts, Gastronomica, Feminist Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. She is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
Iris (Yi Youn) Kim is a 2024 NBCU Academy Storyteller. She is also a 2022 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow, a 2022 USC Center for Public Diplomacy U.S.-South Korea Creative NextGen Fellow, and a 2023 Gold House Journalism Futures Accelerator Participant. Her work was anthologized in Woodhall Press’ “Nonwhite and Woman” in September 2022. Iris was part of the 30 Under 30 Cohort that attended the 2023 Korea Peace Action national mobilization. She is currently working on a collection of essays about the reverberations of immigration and assimilation within Korean American communities.
WATCH: End the Travel Ban to North Korea! | Ktown Social Club Ep. 43 with Cathi Choi and Christine Ahn
August 5, 2024
WCDMZ Co-Directors Christine Ahn and Cathi Choi sit down with Ktown Social Club’s Michael Kim and Michael Won to discuss ending the US travel ban on North Korea and building a movement for peace in Korea and ending the Korean War.
WATCH: KPNGN Reflections on Unbind Your Heart: Korean Han / Grief Transmutation Ceremony, One Year Later
June 12, 2024
Join us for our second gathering of the Intergenerational Learning and Healing Series! We will hear from Jungwon Kim and Yoon Ra. Both will share their reflections from last year’s Unbind Your Heart: Korean Han / Grief Transmutation Ceremony where participants transmuted collective, generational grief and rage, 한 / Han, into a wellspring of righteous anger and strength to call for an end to the Korean War. Both speakers will discuss the process of blending grassroots community organizing with ritual, performance, and song in order to transform and counter state violence and warmaking. They will also share about their work more broadly and why we must prioritize community, ritual, and spiritual resistance in organizing and narrative building practices.
Jungwon Kim is a multi-disciplinary communications strategist and advocate who has chronicled frontline environmental and human rights movements for the past two decades. She served for nine years as head of the creative & editorial team at the Rainforest Alliance and for eight years as the editor of Amnesty International, a quarterly human rights print magazine (circ. 300,000). She has also worked as a journalist for newspapers, magazines, and nationally syndicated public radio programs Jungwon is the board chair of Peace Is Loud and a board member of the Fund for Public Health NYC. She is a writer, mother, and co-founder of two BIPOC-centered sanghas.
Yoon Ra is a trans, non-binary grassroots documentary filmmaker and cultural organizer creating counter-narrative media with sex worker mutual aid groups: Red Canary Song (New York, Turtle Island) and Scarlet Cha Cha (Paju, Korea). Red Canary Song centers base-building with migrant massage workers and Asian sex workers through a labor rights, migrant justice, and PIC abolitionist framework. Red Canary Song believes that the full decriminalization of sex work is necessary for the safety and survival of massage workers and trafficking survivors. Scarlet Cha Cha has been organizing direct actions to protect the livelihoods and workplaces in Yongjugol, a red light district village first created to service an American military base in Paju, South Korea.
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