Joey S. Kim (she/her)

Thank you!!!! Will reach out once my syllabi are planned. 🙏🏼

On my syllabi! ⬇️

What's Left is Tender by Travis Chi Wing Lau — Small Harbor Publishing

It's officially release day for WHAT'S LEFT IS TENDER, a book that I truly didn't think I had it in me to write: www.smallharborpublishing.com/books/whats-...

“I loved my father. But behind the canopy of love is a trunk of hate, the bark and crack of pain, anger, and violence that love often conceals in its shadow. I begin with this as an attempt to bear witness to the shadows of our suffering, and, most importantly, the love that shaped my anger.”

Such a beautiful poem! 🙏🏼

This week I’m syllabusing my Asian American Archives course and trying to write a C19 paper proposal, but they’re making it really hard. 🙈😭

“How a person who has love could be beautiful, how one could, simply by finding an object of beauty, experience sadness and joy.” -Hwang Jungeun 🙏🏼 (2/2)

Reading dd’s Umbrella by Hwang Jungeun, a 2‑novella work about a nonbinary gig worker in Seoul mourning the sudden loss of their lover & a writer reflecting on queer lives & solidarity after the Sewol ferry disaster. Translated from Korean by E. Yaewon, the brilliant translator of Han Kang. (1/2)

Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. (@taylorbyas.bsky.social) PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE...

“Some days, I lay in the morgue
of darkness, hyper-alone, and the sunlight, so audacious, paints
the color back onto my cheeks.” @taylorbyas.bsky.social 🙏🏼✨ poets.org/poem/i-begin...

Resting Bitch Face comes out in just a FEW months with an August 26th release (and don't forget, it's a September pick for Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club)! Want me to come read in your city, talk to your students, perform at your school/venue, chat about my work? Email me!!

My little one, always basketball 🏀 dreaming 💫

“What is a feminist theory of exhaustion?…We are exhausted from feminism but decidedly not taking a ‘break’ from its demands. We are doing it tired.” Incredible essay by Jennifer C. Nash & Samantha Pinto in @differences.bsky.social. Free to read: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

Cover of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Volume 36, Number 1 (May 2025). The background is solid yellow with a horizontal beige band across the middle containing the journal title "differences" in lowercase serif letters. Below the band, the issue’s featured dossier is titled "Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," with contributing authors listed: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, Iván A. Ramos, Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Lee Edelman, David Marriott, and Selamawit D. Terrefe.

The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash. The article was published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences.bsky.social (36:1).

Read the article for free: buff.ly/XDrQAhF

Thank you! Published by the American Peace Crusade, and has critical stories of individuals who served in the U.S. army, ending with another song for peace!

Photo of cover of Howard Fast’s Korean Lullaby

“When at last the guns were silent,-in the graves where children lay. The crying passed away, & the dead had stopped their weeping. Little children sleeping while the night turned into day.” -Howard Fast’s “Korean Lullaby” 1950, at the start of the Korean War. All too resonant with Gaza’s children.

I've written a new post about "ChatGPT psychosis". Includes a detailed timeline of events leading up to the latest incident with Geoff Lewis.
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Lines that struck me in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Exilée and Temps Morts 🖤

Speaking Reassurance to Power, by Pankaj Mishra We've recently updated our website to make signing in easier and more secure

“For all its claims to superior virtue, the liberal American intelligentsia manifests very little of the courage and dignity it has expected from artists and thinkers in less fortunate societies.” —Pankaj Mishra

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

Revising some poems. 🎶 🇰🇷

“One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it.
In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.”
—Fanny Howe

I’m co-organizing this proposed panel, “The Latinx-Asian Commons,” for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference with @ayendy.bsky.social! Please consider submitting, and please share widely! Due 8/1

Mi gente! The expanded edition of Dique Dominican—with a new introduction and conclusion chapters—has a cover! Pre-Orders will be available July 15, 2025! @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social

Cool job posting for Assistant Director at Tulane’s new Global Humanities Center! ✨ jobs.tulane.edu/position/IRC...

“For us, everybody had somebody they—“Before the DMZ” by Cindy Juyoung Ok

Craft Seminar: How To Write An Essay Collection with Alexander Chee — The Shipman Agency 2 Sessions: Sundays, July 13 + 27 1:00-3:30 pm ET Alexander Chee Alexander Chee is the author of the essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, named most recently as one of...

I’ve been preparing for my upcoming How to Write an Essay Collection seminar class, and I’m honestly excited for this Sunday. The class meets in two sessions, is recorded if you’re unable to attend at the time for some reason, and has ASL interpreters. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

“The use of ‘ch*nky eye’ like it’s a neutral descriptor shows how deeply anti-Asian racism has been normalized ― especially when it’s disguised as flattery,” said professor @joeykim.bsky.social.

A Contestant On A Popular TV Show Used This Racist Word. Many People Don't Even Know It's A Slur. Cierra on "Love Island USA" learned the hard way that it was a slur when she was booted off the island this week.

Wrote about the "Love Island" Cierra exit drama, how weird it is that people don't realize "ch*nk" is a slur, and why that might be www.huffpost.com/entry/love-i...

"Border Body", a poem by Joey S. Kim | http://www.versedaily.org/2022/borderbody.shtml @joeykim via @versedailypoems and @DiodeEditions HT @jpdancingbear

YouTube video by NPR ‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

Well, I guess it’s never too early to post this again —