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DESCRIPTION:Professors Jennifer Chun (UCLA\, Asian American Studies) Judy H
 an (UCLA\, Gender Studies) will discuss their latest books\, Against Abando
 nment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest and Queer Throughl
 ines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora. Agai
 nst Abandonment. Against Abandonment is an ethnographic study of the widesp
 read culture of protest in South Korea that examines both its significant a
 chievements and inherent precarity. And Queer Throughlines offers a rare ac
 count of the transnational Koran LGBTQ+ activist movement since the 1990s w
 ith a specific focus on its intersections with various other social movemen
 ts. Queer Throughlines (University of Michigan Press\, 2025) draws on years
  of direct participation\, interviews\, and ethnography to examine the tran
 spacific spaces of Korean LGBTQ+ activism. This talk focuses on Chapter 1\,
  “Against Homophobia in the Diaspora\,” to analyze the contemporaneous emer
 gence of political homophobia and queer visibility in California during the
  1990s and 2000s. By examining the 1999 case of a virulently anti-LGBTQ+ pe
 tition campaign driven by Korean Christian conservatives\, and the subseque
 nt mobilization of an ad hoc coalition of LGBTQ+ activists and allies who s
 ought to counter it\, the talk deploys the conceptual framework of “through
 lines” — a methodological approach to tracing the connective threads\, poli
 tical affinities\, and discursive proximities that shape queer activism acr
 oss disparate geographies. By recovering this transpacific history\, I argu
 e that queer activism and political homophobia emerged not merely in opposi
 tion\, but in tandem\, as both sides utilized the diaspora to refine their 
 rhetorical strategies and mobilize their respective communities.\n\n \n\nTh
 e event is co-sponsored by the Consortium for Gender\, Sexuality\, Race and
  Public Culture\, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Department\, East Asian 
 Studies Center\, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
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LOCATION:Ahn House (AHN)\, 100
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SUMMARY:Joint Book Talks on South Korean Social Activism
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 activism
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