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E. Tammy Kim

E. Tammy Kim was a 2012-13 AAWW Open City Creative Nonfiction Fellow. As a Fellow at the Ms. Foundation for Women, she writes about low-wage women workers and child care. Find more at etkwrites.tumblr.com, and follow her on Twitter @etammykim.

By E. Tammy Kim:
Doo-Ri Chung: Even Couture is a Man’s World
Dai Sil Kim-Gibson: In Mourning, a Filmmaker Turns to Writing
The M15
Compromise City: A Battle Over Affordable Housing
Before and After: Chinatown’s Chatham Square
New DREAMs: Lis, 24
11 Allen Street: Portrait of a Chinatown Housing Struggle
New DREAMs: Jeff, 20
VIDEO: Classic Coffee Shop, Thirty-Six Years on Hester Street
What Separates Welfare from Work
Magical Mystery Tour: Chinatown’s Underbelly with Novelist Ed Lin
Bachelor(ette) Society
Hettienne Park’s Stage Dive
Lower East Side Memories

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