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Transgender Basketball Club By Kim Bi Translated by Victoria Caudle My life was destroyed. That is, if I ever had a life. If I ever had been given a moment of equality like when the whistle blows, the jump ball is tossed, and me and the person standing before me jump up at the same
How are different genders and sexualities positioned in contemporary South Korean society? How are queer lives translated into the literary arts and into an aesthetic discourse?
“Old Baby Homo” and Four Poems – Kim Hyun By Kim Hyun Translated by Suhyun J. Ahn Fearless Love it’s the time of promise let your hands go clear your mind spread a comforter hang around and sometimes life gets organized was it yesterday you brought a small puppy from a dreamland and put it
In “Queer Literature of South Korea” (Spring 2018), an Editor-in-Chief of Nabillera asked questions to our writers. How did they reflect the issues of gender and sexuality in their writings? What was the motivation behind visualizing the marginalized people? What were their literary or aesthetic concerns as writers? If you’re curious, check their responses in the link below! An Interview with
1. I’m curious why you have written poems about the lives of LGBT+ people. This could have been motivated by a personal reason or by social activism. I think the latter is especially apparent in your works as you directly bring up political incidents like Park Geun-hye’s profession, a candlelight demonstration, and the Gil Ra-im
1. I’m curious why you’ve written a story about the life of an LGBT+ person. This could have been motivated by a personal reason or by social activism. Can you tell me a little bit about the background of writing this story? Kim Bi: I had a gender affirmation surgery in October of 2001. I
1. I’m curious why you’ve written poems about an LGBT+ individual. This could have been motivated by a personal reason or by social activism. I’m especially struck by the year in which these works were written, since the LGBT+ community wasn’t that visible in 1994. Can you tell us a bit more about the background