The Ante-Colonial: A Grassroots Discourse of Korean Diasporic Trans-indigenous Relationality

Speaker: Sandra So Hee Chi Kim, Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, Stony Brook University Title: The Ante-Colonial: A Grassroots Discourse of Korean Diasporic Trans-indigenous Relationality Abstract: This presentation explores a Korean diasporic social media discourse that reimagines indigeneity as a relational framework for anti-imperial critique, transnational solidarity, and decolonial worldmaking. Through close readings of posts by Korean American community organizations, collectives, cultural workers, and movement practitioners, it traces how grassroots creators situ