By S. Isabel Choi and Hannah Michell “I was about four years old when I first became aware that I was strange and repulsive.” Elaine H. Kim, professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, is a trailblazer and one of the founding scholars of Asian American and Ethnic Studies
Womb House Books / Oakland, CA January 21, 2026, 7-9 pm “She allows others. In place of her. Admits others to make full. Make swarm.” On a standing-room-only night at Womb House Books, Radical Ahjumma's Margaret Juhae Lee, S. Isabel Choi, and Nancy Jooyoun Kim celebrated Theresa Hak Kyung
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