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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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    “The narrative that is built around a particular moment eventually buries the moment itself.”

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    Poems and translations by Thu Uyên and Hương Trà

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    Poem by Sơn Ca, translated by Lan Anh and poem by Kai Ng, translated by Thu Uyên

    Relapse Desire #6
    Poetry
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    Listen, we can stay here forever, in Tucson, / rain is a fable and we don’t need / a story to fall asleep.

    tôi
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    Poem and self-translation by Nguyễn-Hoàng Quyên

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    Tôi phải ở lại trong ngôn ngữ này, như đã trong một cơn mơ bổng, như đã trong một cú kéo chìm, một tự trói buộc, nhọc nhằn và vẫn ở đó, chút lửa nhen. | I have to reside in this language, as in a flying dream, as in a sinking down, a self-bound, burdensome and still there, little fire.

    Two Poems by Luisa A. Igloria, Poet Laureate of Virginia
    Poetry
    By Luisa A. Igloria

    it’s spring, or whatever / season it is for laughter or slaughter, a // difference of one letter between one state / of being and another

    The Past Is Always Still There: Luisa A. Igloria
    Essays
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    An interview with the Virginia Poet Laureate on poetry as witness, colonial history’s hauntings, and her longstanding poem-a-day practice

    The Counterfactual
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    I’m not proud of what I’ve done. One foot bent in the gaze of the lake as if pleading to be consumed immediately.

    Trans People Have Always Been: A Conversation with Kay Ulanday Barrett
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    “Together we are as mighty as our ancestors up from the dead.”

    Contact of The Bodies: All the Way to Sanwalee
    Fiction
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    In that moment who was to say what belonged to me—Munir’s mouth, my luminous skin color, a setting sun, the shady place we were in, I could never tell anyone.

    IMMIGRANT: A DICTIONARY (ABRIDGED)
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    By Wen Lim

    REPEAT: you stay up memorizing all the twists and turns of a ‘proper’ / enunciation and still your tongue fails you the morning after, syllables / flopping in your mouth like a dead fish, cleaved in shame.

    Transfigured Landscapes: A Conversation with Te-Ping Chen
    Interviews
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    “The work of journalism is bound up in paying attention and noticing things. That’s kind of how I go through the world, with an antenna up for the unexpected, the beautiful, or the moving.”

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    Poetry
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    I would never have to shed my skin / in my leaving.

    Blood, Guts, and Glory : A Conversation with Mary H.K. Choi
    Interviews
    By Lio Min

    “As a writer, as someone who reveals their innermost selves linguistically, it’s lonely not to speak the same language as your parents.”

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    Second Chances
    Fiction
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    Imagi(nation) / amygdalē, almond sweets /
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    Anahita’s head weighs 10 kilograms. Her hand, extended forward yet / disconnected from the bust, holds a fragment of drapery.

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