An academic conference and a citizen’s peace tribunal on the Korean troops’ massacres of Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War were held over a three-day period from April 20 to 22, 2018, in Seoul. It was not only...
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Korean women face danger when playing online games
Why is it so dangerous for women to play games in Korea? Sexual harassment, threats of sexual assault, insults to family and loved ones. A snippet of the harassment comments a female gamer faced from her anonymous...
Yewon Kang
Thai Supermodel Cindy Bishop leads #DontTellMeHowToDress along with #MeToo
Thai supermodel and host of Asia’s Next Top Model Cindy Sirinya Bishop is taking her campaign #DontTellMeHowToDress to an exhibition next month to raise awareness of sexual harassment and victim blaming in Thailand. In...
Tara Abhasakun
Wu Rongrong of ‘Feminist Five’ on Women’s Empowerment in China
Many people have asked me whether China’s feminism movement has encountered a big bottleneck or a backward environment in recent years. Others have asked how I view the future of China’s feminist movement. My opinion is...
They Were Never Asking For It
How Trauma Shaped My Body Image And The Way I See Other Women Some months have passed since #MeToo broke and the movement of women standing against sexual objectification continues to strengthen. As I watch, I find...
Tara Footner
How I Came To Understand My Mother-In-Law From Hell
Ignoring Her, As Strategy My mother-in-law (MIL) went into a depression soon after our wedding ten years ago. The trigger? Her son marrying me. Her depression manifested in different ways. Calling me incessantly to find...
What It’s Like To Be A Queer Feminist In China
The first time I learnt about “feminism” was from an online course called International Women’s Health and Human Rights that I attended during high school. The course demonstrated the problems of women’s...
Why Korean Women Want to Escape South Korea
Last Saturday, on a sunny afternoon, over 220 aspiring programmers flocked to D.CAMP, a South Korean startup hub, in eastern Seoul to get advice on how to land a job outside of Korea and how to create a work-life...
Dating Violence Revealed on Social Media Captures Korean Attention
A 21-year-old woman from Busan, Korea, posted on social media a photo of herself, with bruised eyes and swollen face, revealing a horrific incident of dating violence. Her boyfriend of 3-months, who’s also 21 years old...
K-Pop Star Irene of Red Velvet Blasted With Misogyny Masked in Fandom
A member of popular K-Pop girl group Red Velvet, Irene—whose real name is Bae Joo-hyun—was blasted recently with misogynist online comments after she said during a fan meeting that she had read a book, Kim Ji Young born...
Korea’s #MeToo Campaigns Persist in Celebration
The 2018 International Women’s Day celebrations drew the highest participation yet in South Korea as the #MeToo movement swept across every sector of this male-dominated society. On March 8, Korean women’s organizations...
Jakarta Feminist Discussion Group Talks About Women’s March Jakarta
Indonesian Feminism in the Social Media Era Jakarta Feminist Discussion Group (JFDG) began as a Facebook group in 2014. In roughly 4 years, its membership has grown to more than 2,000 members and 50 volunteers...
Yenni Kwok