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Wrestling with Weight
The muffled sounds of the mid-morning shuffle play out behind Erin Flannery, a third-year history major, as she sits cross-legged on a pillowed bench outside a campus cafe. She passes her drink between her hands, occasionally balancing it upon her knee. Flannery said that her sister, who struggled with anorexia nervosa, would go periods of…
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Mixed But Not Divided
By CHELSEA HAWKINSThis story originally published in City on a Hill Press in October 2011. When I was six or seven years old, I would spend my Saturday afternoons at the local Korean Baptist Church. A pink textbook opened in front of me, oversized hangul lightly sketched on sheets of paper. I kept my eyes…
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Crossing the Divide, One Dish at a Time
By CHELSEA HAWKINSThis story originally ran in City on the Hill Press in May 2011. For me, home smells like garlic, sesame oil and briny vegetables — soups bubbling over stove-top flames and chive cakes crackling in frying pans. The early morning chill rolling in through cracked windows as life starts yawning and rumbling through…
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Kalliope Lee’s ‘Sunday Girl’ Novel Summons Spirit of Comfort Women
Kalliope Lee’s debut novel, Sunday Girl, channels the souls and unresolved wounds of the Korean “comfort women.”
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New Korean War Documentary Shows Old Wounds Still Hurt
A new documentary explores the legacy of separation left by the Korean War. by CHELSEA HAWKINSThis story first appeared in KoreAm Journal April 2013. It is a well-known reality that the stories and voices from the Korean War have long been muted. For such a bloody and longstanding conflict, little seems to be known about the…
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Forgotten But Not Gone
Native communities try to make a place for themselves within a bureaucratic system.
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Author Steph Cha Reimagines Noir In Debut Mystery Novel
At just 27, Steph Cha releases her first novel, an edgy mystery that repurposes a traditionally misogynistic genre.
Chelsea Hawkins 