Today, bandcamp is donating all of their profits to the Transgender Law Center in the US. To maximize the impact, I’m doing a 24 hour release of an A Side / B Side single from my new EP “Pansy” for £1. 15% of the money … Continue reading"Pansy" EP Pre-Release to benefit the Transgender Law Center, and Action For Trans Health
[Image description: black oil rigs in North Dakota stand in stark contrast to the snowy ground and light gray sky] In the US presidential election I wish we could be real and talk about strategic voting, the problems with Jill Stein & the US Green … Continue readingYour vote for President isn't radical
[Image description: fairly ugly, high contrast photo of wildflowers at nighttime] CN: death, violence, blood The mass murder at Pulse nightclub in Orlando is not “tragic” or apolitical, it was state-enabled domestic terrorism targeting Latinx queers. Last night at Pulse was a Latin night with … Continue readingQueer people gathering in public is still a brave political act: the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting … Continue readingQueer people gathering in public is still a brave political act: the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting
In which I reluctantly defend neorealism as a grand theory applicable to the security situation in North East Asia: Rather than asserting that realism or its offshoots are the ultimate International Relations grand theories, I suggest that neorealism remains a crucial aspect of IR security … Continue readingThe Koreas, Bastion of Cold War Realism
Some thoughts in reaction to the shooting on June 17, and the media reaction: Distressingly, the gun violence doesn’t come as a surprise in America; neither does the racist media coverage of the attack. Black victims of crime are often painted as “thugs” who invited … Continue readingWhite Terrorism and the AME Church Shooting in Charleston, SC
I wrote some very niche US-DPRK history (with a lot of help from scholars more senior) about a lost moment for potential reconciliation in 2013. Once more it seems that unsubtle displays of military might trump all other tools of diplomacy: on the Korean Peninsula, … Continue readingKing, Wu, B-52: A Tense Moment In US-DPRK History
Morgan Potts’ regular feature on Sino-NK enters its fourth edition. The latest Tongsin for March–May 2014 examines the DPRK response to US-ROK war games and the Sewol disaster, in which the North attempts to illustrate a united Sino-DPRK perspective that is both anti-American and anti-South Korean. … Continue readingTongsin | 통신 no. 4: War Games and the Sewol Sinking
As expected, the annual joint exercises Key Resolve/Foal Eagle will take place as planned despite outcry from North Korea. Both exercises will commence on February 24. … Continue readingUS-ROK Announce Dates forKey Resolve/Foal Eagle
The second installation of Tongsin | 통신 focuses in on the DPRK rhetoric surrounding the upcoming Key Resolve/Foal Eagle exercises and China’s place in the reunification narrative. … Continue readingTongsin | 통신 no. 02: Military Exercises and Reunification
While both countries employ the Aegis missile defense technology, Japan and South Korea have very different approaches to missile defense and their security alliances with the United States. … Continue readingAegis Destroyers and Ballistic Missile Defense in Japan and South Korea