Anti-Sexual Violence Activism, Radical Feminism, and Feminist Communities in South Korea
Department: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Date and Time: April 14, 2021 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PMEvent Location: Zoom
Event Details
The Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies presents
Anti-Sexual Violence Activism, Radical Feminism, and Feminist Communities in South Korea
GFE Emerging Scholarship Series with Anat Schwartz
Wednesday, April 14th, 12 PM | RSVP by visiting http://bit.ly/GFEEmergingSchwartz
Zoom Link will be sent a day before the event.
To request reasonable accommodations, please email jjchoy@uci.edu
In this presentation, I outline the recent history of anti-sexual violence activism and the growth of transnational trans-exclusive radical feminism in South Korea. The variability of activist routes has caused tension between feminists across organizational generational lines, furthered by the rapid growth of online activist spaces and their ideologies. In this talk, I argue that there was never a true “sisterhood” among feminists, and that online feminist radical activism (both feminists allied with all queer people and transphobic feminists) makes this statement tangible. This talk uses ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea(2018-2019) and is an excerpt from my dissertation, Feminist Assemblages: Feminist Activism and Communities in Contemporary South Korea.