The F Less Travelled… with Grace M. Cho
Grace M. Cho is the author of Tastes Like War, published in May 2021 (U.S release) with Feminist Press, and Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War, which received a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association. Her writings have appeared in journals such as the New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Contexts, Gastronomica, Feminist Studies, Womens Studies Quarterly, and Qualitative Inquiry. She is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
Book choices:
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the practice of freedom - bell hooks
Dictée - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Music:
Four Women - Nina Simone
Changes - David Bowie
Object:
Photograph of Grace and her mother in Korea, shortly before moving to the U.S.
Additional notes:
We apologise for the sound quality of this episode. We had a problem with the original recording, but didn’t want to lose the wonderful words from Grace.
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Music and sound production by Ruari Paterson Achenbach
Artwork by Katharine Davies-Herbst
The F Less Travelled...Tracing Feminist Pathways is brought to you in collaboration with The Centre for Feminist Research and with support from the Centre for Urban and Community Research and Methods Labs, all based at Goldsmiths.
To make our conversations more accessible, we include a transcript with every episode. Read our conversation with Grace here.