hieyoon kim
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0absentia.bsky.social
hieyoon kim
@0absentia.bsky.social
write and teach about cinema, media, and politics; author of Celluloid Democracy (UC Press, 2023); prof at Brown
“An important thing to do when injustices compound is to resist numbness. In order for change and transformation to occur, we must refuse the current order of the world. What does this mean? It doesn’t mean repeating the buzz phrase “this is not normal.”
January 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Re-reading Toni Morrison: “It [fascism] changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good. It changes neighbors into consumers—so the measure of our value as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own.
January 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
“Let’s be together, for now and forever

Into the new world“

another day, another overnight pro-democratic rally in Seoul.
January 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM