#korean-canadian

[rickchung]

Riceboy Sleeps (dir. Anthony Shim) x VIFF 2022.

Shim writes and directs a beautifully touching Korean-Canadian mother-son family drama full of social realism inspired by his own childhood [...]. Set and shot mostly in the sleepy Vancouver suburbs (filmed in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows), we follow an immigrant single mother struggling to raise her young son with cultural pride while assimilating in 1990s Canada.

Premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Next Wave Selects program.

[thunderstruck9]

Cindy Ji Hye Kim (Korean/Canadian, 1990), Feign’d Vestal, 2022. Graphite on silk with shaped artist's stretcher bars, 68 x 52 in.

[jareckiworld]

Won Lee (1946-2021)—Waiting for Godot #3 (bronze sculpture, 2012)

[vox-anglosphere]

Built to honour the fallen of The Great War, Canada's War Memorial was unveiled by King George VI & Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa during the Royal Tour of 1939.. three months before the outbreak of WWII.

[kimsmingyu]

nonkorean kdrama watchers get too comfortable complaining because what do you mean you expect a korean speaking korean actor to speak english a certain way... aka they want them fluent...

[yourdailyqueer]

Celeste Yim

Gender: Non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 12 May 1996

Ethnicity: Korean

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Comedian, screenwriter, writer

[haveyouseenthisseries-poll]

[shokuto]

There was a time in 2019 when I thought k-pop was about to break out of its niche and enter the mainstream. Very glad that never happened

[cinemaronin]

[haveyouseenthis-childhoodshow]

Have you seen this childhood show: Pucca (2006-2019), Canada and South Korea (English and Korean)

Commentary/Context/Memories: No submitted commentary.

[Mod A: This show was about Pucca, a young daughter of a noodle shop owner who has a huge crush on Gary, a travelling ninja. Basically, Pucca increases her “Pucca Powers” (immense strength, control of the weather, etc) every time she kisses Gary, while Gary is trying to master Kung Fu and fight his nemesis while trying to avoid Pucca and her kisses. While I guess it was meant to be a love-hate relationship, this aspect of the show does seem a bit questionable in terms of consent. I can’t really judge though, as I’ve only seen ads for it at my cousins’s house, I never actually seen it. I do like the concept of an overpowered young girl though haha]

[msdk-00]

do you think if i knock on the embassy door and break down and cry they'll accept me for the gks scholarship. i mean im writing the fuck out of this essay but i fear that might not be enough

[jareckiworld]

Zadie Xa — Transformation, Remembrance, Renewal (oil on linen, 2024)

[fiercynn]

queer short cuts week 33: from the river to the sea

queer short cuts is a biweekly newsletter where i share queer & trans short film recommendations; each set of films is themed and comes out to no more than one hour cumulatively.content notes are included at the end of each post.you can also check out the full spreadsheet of films i've recommended.

today marks a month from hamas’s attack on israel, and israel’s genocidal response that has escalated the already-unjust violence israel perpetrates through occupation of palestine. in that month, israel’s occupation and bombardment of palestine has only become more horrific. as of today, over 10,000 palestinians have been killed – over 4,200 of them children – and nearly 26,000 wounded in gaza, and at least 163 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied west bank and jerusalem. and those are only the numbers of confirmed deaths from direct combat violence.

this week will be the last (for now) of films that are palestine-themed in some way – the first film is about a queer palestinian character, and the second two, like last week’s selections, are from the 2021 queer cinema for palestine festival. i would love to continue showing queer palestinian films, but i’ve unfortunately run out of films at the moment that I can find online with english subtitles. i will certainly keep looking, and regardless, i am going to continue using this space to speak out against Israel and for palestine, even if the films in future weeks don’t directly relate.

check out the full film recs here

in past newsletters i’ve given a list of things you can do like donating or learning more about the fight for palestinian liberation. those are still there for you to check out if you need, but folks in palestine have been clear that what they really need right now is for us to fight for political change. donations aren’t getting into gaza, so what we really need to be doing is joining protests and direct actions, and demanding that our local leaders support palestine – not only for a ceasefire and aid supplies, but also an end to arming israel (if your country does so) and to israeli occupation of palestine. samidoun has a calendar of resistance events across the world – please do check it out and do what you can to fight for change.

[do-you-know-this-play]

[luchitohamilton]

free them dude