amber

(they/them)

[simone de bolivar @_bitchsword]

crying

[yammi @sighyam]

A beloved lesbian couple, locally cherished as ‘Grandpa Kan’ and ‘Grandma Tuk’ have come to register their marriage after more than 30 years of being together. 🩵

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

I don’t think the magnitude of what the Palestinian press accomplished over the last 15 months has been fully appreciated yet

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

This isn’t a sign of functional political system it’s a sign of a volatile society with an extreme level of class antagonism. South Korea has been forced to overthrow multiple leaders because none of these uprisings achieved a revolution where the working class took power

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

“We heard you had a coup attempt and we just want you to know that no matter what you will always be valued as one of our most cherished military bases”

[oomfenshmirtz @o_biennis]

a team was sent to arrest Lee Jaemyung prior to the vote but he anticipated it and went to another assemblyman's office and waited there until the National Assembly was called to order, evading arrest. This is the door to his office

[Jack Saebyok Jung 정새벽 @daybreakjung]

Honored to share my translation of @PoetKimHyesoon's "A Well-Ripened Apple" for the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale, "Silent Apple." From her book "Dear Calendar Factory Manager," (@moonji_books , 2000) where her speculative poetry reaches new heights.

🔗 https://t.co/yocjwOyr3z

[Aaron Bady @zunguzungu]

Anyway, I'm delighted that they gave the Nobel to a writer whose major work is about "How do you live in a world where the state can just murder an unaccountable number of people, just massacre them, and then nothing changes, how can you live, how can you live"

[캐스퍼 @archiveofcaspar]

대한민국 최초, 아시아 여성 최초 노벨문학상 수상자
한 강

[Simon Prosser @HamishH1931]

Bound proofs just in for HAN KANG’s haunting and visionary new novel ‘We Do Not Part’ —

translated by e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris

Publishing next February

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

In the novel 소년이 온다 (2014; ‘Human Acts’, 2016), Han Kang – awarded this year’s #NobelPrize in Literature – employs as her political foundation a historical event that took place in the city of Gwangju, where she herself grew up and where hundreds of students and unarmed civilians were murdered during a massacre carried out by the South Korean military in 1980.

In seeking to give voice to the victims of history, the book confronts this episode with brutal actualisation and, in so doing, approaches the genre of witness literature. Han Kang’s style, as visionary as it is succinct, nevertheless deviates from our expectations of that genre, and it is a particular expedient of hers to permit the souls of the dead to be separated from their bodies, thus allowing them to witness their own annihilation. In certain moments, at the sight of the unidentifiable corpses that cannot be buried, the text harks back to the basic motif of Sophocles’s ‘Antigone’.

[영비 @youngbees]

<소년이 온다> 편집한 사람 지금 엉엉 울고 있어요 ㅠㅠㅠ 십 년 전 편집할 때도 연재하면서 매일 울었는데 지금도 울게 해주는 책이 되었네요 🥹

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

[Nodutdol | 노둣돌 @nodutdol]

South Koreans have paid the costs of pollution, garbage, crime, land use and facility transfers for the US military for decades. Under Trump the U.S. began demanding a $1 billion annual protection fee.

The cowardly Yoon govt has now agree to increase that fee by 8.3%

[amber @commajade]

@scantima i'm glad!! my fave part is the end :)

[amber @commajade]

check out my essay if ur interested in interpreting kmedia queerness through the lens of korean indigenous spirituality :)

thank you so much to @ment_magazine for all the support and critical input, it was so much fun working on this project!

[MENT Magazine @ment_magazine]

Amber Lee (@commajade) analyzes the shamanic logic that governs Taemin’s gender performance in “Taemin as Mudang: K-Pop, Queerness, and the Logic of Shamanism.” Read Lee’s essay in MENT Magazine Issue 001 here: https://t.co/Hv9Ngu9Jcn

#mentmagazine #kpop #taemin

[amber @commajade]

@scantima omg lmk what u think if u read it!

[thaly @thalyonfilm]

kim goeun’s solo posters for ‘exhuma’.

[amber @commajade]

@lizardqueen1963 noooo 😭😭😭