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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

Recent Articles

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    “For Korean women writers, for whatever kind of poetry they want to write, I think this country has excellent soil for growing in any direction you want.”

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    Love letters spill / down the narrow stairs as I leave. I think I would like nothing / to miss her like I do, hence this tenderness, hence my hands smudging / myself. 


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    There is always a risk of misunderstanding in all kinds of conversations, but those risks are more acutely felt in translation, and even more acutely felt in translation that calls forth past and ongoing traumas.

    The Woman Who Was Everything
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    She should moisturize more often, drink at least three liters of hot water with lemon each day, and wear silicon sheet masks to bed to hide the stigmata of a woman who was everything.

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    One day you’ll be married. May Allah make your naseeb good. May you find a man who prays and follows the deen.

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    Fifty five years later, how we remember the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act directly correlates to the strength of our solidarity movements.

    Woman Warrior for the 21st Century: An Interview with K-Ming Chang
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    “I was interested in a coming-of-age story that wasn’t about running away from the domestic space but about burrowing and binding and rooting more deeply.”

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    somewhere a tiger loosens its throat or so she imagines / the rubber trees looming she lifts her paring knife to the day’s throat

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    Creativity, as it turns out, is especially hard when your brain is in survival mode.

    Ghost Bride
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    And though I knew it was someone’s son, I unburied the rooster in the dark and kick-started a fire and roasted it on a spit, my fingers lamping with grease.

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    Our five-part series comes to a close with these 33 titles.

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    You spoke through the impossible and you teach us once more how a story, through a faithful, stubborn kind of continuation, can be like a collective strength.

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    Works of the classical period that appear in multiple translations

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    From visual treats to gastronomical gateways and books for young learners

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    We continue in our bookmarks series with works that sing, dissolve boundaries, and gather voices together

    100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers: An Introduction & Nonfiction
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    I embarked on this list with an assumption of scarcity. But I discovered an embarrassment of riches.

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    In the summer of 1990, 62,000 Hong Kong people chose to flee the city because of the violent crackdown on student protesters at Tiananmen Square the previous year. Now once again, people in Hong Kong were faced with the dilemma: to emigrate or to stay.

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