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길원옥 할머님, Gil Won Ok, one of the known final 8 surviving Korean women who were forced into sexual enslavement during Japan's occupation of Korea, passed this week at 96. She dedicated the rest of her life, protesting weekly for accountability from Japan.

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Fourth part in my series to De-Google your life. So far I’ve covered browsers, search engines, maps, and now this one covers calendars.

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Empire regards land only as a resource to own and plunder. They view the entirety of Turtle Island and beyond (e.g. Greenland) as an opportunity to exploit. Empire is death.

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Most recent TSA encounter is the most common one I experience. They can’t tell my gender so they keep asking me random questions to get me to speak. But I just nod or shake my head. So today a bunch of agents just stood around me frozen because they needed to pat me down but they didn’t know which.⭐️

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Thinking about how I have flown with a mask for over a decade, but beginning November 2019 white women on my flights would whisper to the flight attendant to have their seats moved away from me as a masking Asian.

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Cue the media trying to suppress coverage on the escalation of flight crashes as directly related to this administration’s damage to the FAA. They’re just waiting on the money from the airlines to start flooding platforms with news on how safe flying is.

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CVS is having customers download and use an app to open their locked cabinets for “convenience.” If CVS wanted customers to actually have convenience they would not lock the cabinets in the first place. All they are doing is taking your precious data. Don’t do it.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Thank your airplane cabin crew. They exist first and foremost, for our safety. And DEI is why we can travel in their care.

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NYC folks, research and learn about upcoming Mayoral candidates if you have not started already.

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This administration has given license to news outlets to deadname, misgender, and further endanger trans people everywhere in life and even in death.

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White Lotus fans please don’t flock to Thailand and colonize it with over tourism. You will destroy everything beautiful and sacred just as you have with almost everywhere else in the world.

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In oppressive societies, like within Empire, unless you have had the exact right conditions to do so, there is no reason you would already or automatically know how to confront authority. So we must practice.

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In Korea yesterday, the pro-Yoon far-right contingent tried to have a rally in the historic pro-Democracy Gwangju plaza and they were met with the might of the people fighting against this dangerous rise of ultra nationalist anti-immigrant anti-communist conservatism.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

People against immigrants don’t get to eat our dumplings, kimchi, or BBQ, and don’t get to listen to Kpop or watch Kdramas. Too bad for you.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Heads up. Agents have been telling passengers they must declare they will opt out BEFORE showing or scanning ID. But tell them this AFTER they scan their IDs. Always made up “rules” to coerce you into biometric theft. Do not give them anything until you tell them you’re opting out.

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I am spending this Valentine’s Day as I have all past days and will all future days, loving Trans folks, Global Majority femmes, Abolitionists, Radical queers, People who fight for collective liberation. Loving the People. Loving us. It’s us. We are the love that will bring our liberation.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The National Park Service has removed all mention of “transgender” in reference to the Stonewall Monument, located in NYC.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Trans is in forever.

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DHS wants to re-assign armed IRS Criminal Investigations agents to immigration and customs enforcement. IRS to I C E.

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MapQuest looking super hot lately.

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 10 days ago • 596 comments

We haven’t had a president in Korea for two months since December 3rd, essentially. He’s just been away and detained, and we’re doing quite well. The country has not fallen apart. And no one really likes the other person that is first in line to replace him either, so we're not in a hurry.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

De-Google your life. Not only because they’re removing history and heritage months from their holiday calendars, but also because they track, steal, and sell your data.

submitted 12 days ago • 22 comments

Some moves to take to protect yourself in the midst of the attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ykhong.substack.com/p/some-moves...

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Kendrick Lamar taking, making, and breaking the stage is a great reminder that the People can take, make, and break the stage, too. Now is a great time to dive into the history and practice of mass movements, protests, demonstrations, and resistance.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Close Guantánamo Bay. Close Empire. ykhong.substack.com/p/close-guan...

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Trans and queer fam, let’s be subversive again. open.substack.com/pub/ykhong/p...

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In yet another example of the rippling effects of U.S. tyranny extending itself across the globe, the U.S. Embassy in Korea will no longer display the Pride flag in June. The same omission happened during Trump’s first term, with a BLM flag being removed from the building’s exterior.

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Oppressors try to erase history so that they can repeat it.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

That there is a decision tree to eliminate DEIA terms from NSF documents is WILDDDDDD.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

I’m pretty sure we can develop a CAPTCHA to screen out the broligarchy. You know, like a simple ethics test.

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

Trump acting like he is the CEO of the U.S. doesn’t mean he is. He literally is not allowed to do much of what he is declaring. He is neither the CEO nor king. Do not comply in advance.

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Wrote a piece on Korean Abductees, how the U.S. continues to fail them, and how many are under threat of this administration’s attack on immigrants. ykhong.substack.com/p/korean-abd...

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