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Into the Archives of Queer Asian Canadian History
Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 5/10/23 Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 5/10/23

Into the Archives of Queer Asian Canadian History

What are the political lineages of queer Asians in Canada today? I dive into the digital archives of newsletter publications of the 80s’ and 90s’ for an intimate glimpse into history.

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A Decolonial, Queer Praxis of Anti-Mononormativity in Therapeutic Practice
Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 4/19/23 Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 4/19/23

A Decolonial, Queer Praxis of Anti-Mononormativity in Therapeutic Practice

How can resisting compulsory monogamy and relationship hierarchy help us cultivate decentralized networks of care and intimacy, into more loving futures?

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Practicing a Love Ethic in the Ongoing Pandemic Part 2
Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 3/25/23 Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 3/25/23

Practicing a Love Ethic in the Ongoing Pandemic Part 2

May we embody and commit to a love ethic that is rooted in Disability Justice, interconnectedness, and collective responsibility, rather than solely relying on public policy to determine our practices.

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Practicing a Love Ethic in the Ongoing Pandemic Part 1
Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 3/25/23 Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 3/25/23

Practicing a Love Ethic in the Ongoing Pandemic Part 1

How are we perpetuating individualism and abled supremacy in the so-called left? What does it look like to align our values with actions?

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The Need for Disability Justice in Mental Health Care
Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 1/3/23 Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 1/3/23

The Need for Disability Justice in Mental Health Care

Mental health practitioners can play a key role in resisting abled supremacy and the disposability of our disabled kin. May we center Disability Justice in our justice-oriented practices.

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Reflections and Questions on Belonging, Citizenship & Settler Complicity as the Asian Diaspora
Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 3/6/22 Written Collection, Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 3/6/22

Reflections and Questions on Belonging, Citizenship & Settler Complicity as the Asian Diaspora

How do we navigate our desire for belonging as peoples of diasporas in a way that doesn’t further perpetuate colonial erasure, displacement, and dispossession of Indigenous peoples here on Turtle Island?

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Edge of the Couch: Practicing Joy and Play for Collective Liberation [OCT 2021]
Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 2/1/22 Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 2/1/22

Edge of the Couch: Practicing Joy and Play for Collective Liberation [OCT 2021]

A conversation with Jordan Pickell about justice-oriented practice & it became one of my favourite podcast interviews ever! Transcript included.

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Speaking of Racism: Policing in the Mental Health Industry [MAY 2021]
Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 1/10/22 Audio Collection Ji Youn Kim 1/10/22

Speaking of Racism: Policing in the Mental Health Industry [MAY 2021]

A conversation with Gabes Torres on the mental health industry’s complicities in the Prison Industrial Complex. Transcript included.

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a love letter for @gabestorres at the end of my trip in 🇵🇭

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dear lover,

what a joy it is to laugh with you. to hear and feel the vibrations of our roaring laughter in the same space and time.

what a joy it is to moan and groan with you. t
Learning to be in loving relationship with one another includes practicing intentional and loving endings (when/as possible).

Endings are also transitions. When one particular relationship structure no longer aligns, ask - what would our liberatory
birthday joy dump ✨

first birthday in the ancestral lands since immigration and it feels like a type of homecoming. both to the land, to corean roots, and also to myself. and in reflecting back on the past year, I am much queerer, more corean, more

I am an uninvited guest, living and working on the stolen and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, colonially known as Vancouver, Canada.

My relationships and responsibilities as a settler inform my work as I continue to try to unsettle the settler colonial project that is also deeply ingrained in the mental health industry.

Please check out native-land.ca to see whose lands you are on.

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