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Joey S. Kim

Joey S. Kim is a scholar, creative writer, and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo. Her artistic and scholarly interests converge at the intersection of Anglophone literature and representations of the “East”—how Orientalist subjects and environments take shape in literary, artistic, and cultural objects. Her work has been published in Pleiades: Literature in Context, Essays in Romanticism, The Fashion & Race Database, The Hellebore, and elsewhere. In 2020, her poem “Plunder,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her forthcoming book of poems, Body Facts, won an international publication contest with Diode Editions Press and will be released in June 15, 2021. You can follow her on Twitter @joeykim

“Model Minority,” Still “Other”

Vincent Chin, 27 years old. Vicha Ratanapakdee, 84 years old. Deaths 39 years apart. Deaths due to anti-Asian hate. Chin would be just 65 years old today if he were still alive. Ratanapakdee could have been his father. I wrote about ...

Orientalism in the Age of COVID-19

When coronavirus became a thing, I remember thinking first, narcissistically, Oh, f**k, here come the racist taunts and slurs. My hindsight was not, in this case, 20/20. I did not expect the “Yellow Peril” level of psycho-cultural turmoil and ...