I’m a Korean-American adoptee living in Seoul, getting my MA in Anthropology (yes, taking all of my classes in Korean TT). In my spare time, I volunteer at two great organizations: Korean Unwed Mothers’ Families Association (KUMFA) and the Women’s Global Solidarity Action Network (WGSAN) - a group that works on various issues, including with the survivors of military sexual slavery during WWII (“Comfort Women”). I also love cooking and baking and going to the noraebang ^^ var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-26287691-1’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Tumblr (3.0; @peaceshannon)http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/queerhairyvag: Don’t assume those you intend to help even wanted your help. You are not there to...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51286827731http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51286827731Sat, 25 May 2013 16:03:07 +0900<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/995add3e56895037dae65ed18f79e55b/tumblr_mn7z87RZ0C1rncbh7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://soulsentwined.tumblr.com/post/51230287112/etothevictory-thefoxxypoet-odinsblog-a" class="tumblr_blog">soulsentwined</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://etothevictory.tumblr.com/post/51126597429/thefoxxypoet-odinsblog-a-bronx-bus-company">etothevictory</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thefoxxypoet.tumblr.com/post/51123605159/odinsblog-a-bronx-bus-company-is-offering-tours">thefoxxypoet</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://odinsblog.tumblr.com/post/51100064599/a-bronx-bus-company-is-offering-tours-billed-as-a">odinsblog</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>A Bronx bus company is offering tours billed as a “a ride through a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’” the <a href="http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/ghetto_gawking_ffMgfDAaCD76GXNYDrth7L">New York Post reports.</a></p> <p>The company, Real Bronx Tours, has taken largely white foreign tourists around the Bronx. The tour guide was caught mocking the Bronx by Post reporter Candice Giove.</p> <blockquote> <p>Three times a week, Real Bronx Tours takes riders — mainly white Europeans and Australians — on a trip that includes stops at food-pantry lines and a “pickpocket” park.</p> <p><img alt="image" src="http://media.tumblr.com/8cf2b2c7afce88e55c536d9765418ef5/tumblr_inline_mn7zgks4nJ1qz4rgp.jpg"/></p> </blockquote> <p>“Last week, on the first stop of the $45 tour, guide Lynn Battaglia, from Pittsburgh, pointed out a housing project. She then mocked the Grand Concourse, modeled after a Parisian boulevard,” <a href="http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/ghetto_gawking_ffMgfDAaCD76GXNYDrth7L">reports Giove.</a>“‘Do you feel like we’re on the Champs-Elysées?’ she teased a couple from Paris.”</p> <p>The tour also included a drive near a food pantry at a church. Battaglia wondered out loud, “I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it. We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.</p> <div class="toggle-group target hideOnInit"> <p>The tour guide warned of the dangers of going to a park in the Bronx and also gave inaccurate information about the origin of the word “pig” to describe a police officer. While Battaglia claimed the word came from the Bronx, in reality it originated in London.</p> <p>The Bronx borough president harshly criticized the guide and the tour.</p> <p>The guide is “the biggest fool on the planet,” said Ruben Diaz, the borough president. “<strong>To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting</strong>.” [emphasis mine]</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>This is a total diss to my hometown. Ugh the Bronx is many things, but there is beauty there…and I’m happy I spent a good chunk of my childhood there.</p> <p>It’s irritating to see these dumb ass tourists come to my city and mock it for their enjoyment and someone is getting paid to be a racist/classist asshole.</p> </blockquote> <p>Oh no. Oh no no no no no. You’re telling me “slumming” is still a thing???</p> </blockquote> <p>this isn’t even the first version of this I’ve heard of, a few years ago I read about tour operators bringing bus loads of people to black churches in Harlem to observe the service from the balcony. Basically the tourist acted like they were at a show and not at a religious ceremony.</p></blockquote> <p>wtf!</p>http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51230817949http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51230817949Sat, 25 May 2013 01:07:52 +0900<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/16980a2aeef60c0b8797bcf414e4cc83/tumblr_mnb3c8Zrex1qjqhgvo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9e8c67da6b4964844635d88d1313cecc/tumblr_mnb3c8Zrex1qjqhgvo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9c0e4bfc6121e67b5c3040e3ab0f13cf/tumblr_mnb3c8Zrex1qjqhgvo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/017d34779f5228bfdb36271a03884222/tumblr_mnb3c8Zrex1qjqhgvo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/fc95bf09b714d4381dc0e644dc0236ed/tumblr_mnb3c8Zrex1qjqhgvo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/07956e6a684fdb11eaf576182e2eabac/tumblr_mnb3c8Zrex1qjqhgvo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/32021bc479cc5738a692ae26cba53bf8/tumblr_mnb3c8Zrex1qjqhgvo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5d2a23e3e24357ec3e331d307cd53986/tumblr_mnb3c8Zrex1qjqhgvo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>this is the venue. the top three photos are from the website (it wasn’t set up like that when we went to visit - as you can see, they were shooting for another couple’s wedding album). the other five photos we took when we were there but we couldn’t even capture how nice the house is - three floors. the room with the wooden tables is the bottom floor, which will be set up and used for 폐백, the ceremony itself will take place on the middle floor (thats the photos from their website - and apparently we’ll be making our entrances from the staircase you see in the last photo), and the top floor with the view is for receiving guests (and will also be set up to accommodate people during meal service) - look at that view!</p>http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51224873301http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51224873301Fri, 24 May 2013 23:09:00 +0900mebrittinbusan replied to your post ~&#160;! ~^^ ~~ put down a deposit on the venue for the wedding!...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51223648684http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51223648684Fri, 24 May 2013 22:43:00 +0900brittinbusantashaalice<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/689b4871646979d17a00b56f647408fc/tumblr_mn3v2pDbm51rytwvlo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.iamjoyce.com/post/50914414364/spanish-fashion-designer-manel-torres-invented-the" class="tumblr_blog">juicypooh</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption"><span class="hasCaption">Spanish fashion designer Manel Torres invented the world’s first clothes-spray, which after application to the body can be removed, washed and worn again. Spray consists of special fibers mixed with polymers, so that the product obtained elastic and durable. The clothing piece can be washed and re-worn, or can be broken down again to make new fabric spray! Very cool!<br/></span></span></p> <p><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption"><span class="hasCaption">Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t22wRrEW14A"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t22wRrEW14A">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t22wRrEW14A</a></a><br/></span></span></p></blockquote>http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51221107863http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51221107863Fri, 24 May 2013 21:41:15 +0900fashionsciencespray on clothesinterestingcooldesign<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9m8npA0Q01r3uxuco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51220898224http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51220898224Fri, 24 May 2013 21:35:43 +0900sandwichesawesomesandwich cutter<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/aed29e246a9f095d42a9270ab62acfe0/tumblr_mnaslk51kG1qjqhgvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>i wasn’t kidding when i said i was googling images of lemonade because my office was so hot. now it is mine, all mine! waiting for jinwoo in hapjeong’s cafe street~~^^</p>http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51216461429http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51216461429Fri, 24 May 2013 19:17:44 +0900memy office is so hot because it&#8217;s part of unesco which is part of the government, which means...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51213023988http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51213023988Fri, 24 May 2013 17:02:00 +0900thisisnotaboutadoption: When I finally got through, it was to a woman at A.A.C., an agency in...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51196245204http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51196245204Fri, 24 May 2013 11:28:33 +0900adoptionthisisnotaboutadoption: The psychology of adoption never ends, can’t be solved. It’s nearly...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51195958829http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51195958829Fri, 24 May 2013 11:24:50 +0900adoptionon pointe: trungles: I once liked this guy until he said, “I really like Asian...:...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51192727343http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51192727343Fri, 24 May 2013 10:43:17 +0900orientalismfetishizationasian menwhite peopleracism<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwfuiBgim1r0t5gco1_r1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwfuiBgim1r0t5gco2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwfuiBgim1r0t5gco3_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwfuiBgim1r0t5gco6_r2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwfuiBgim1r0t5gco8_r2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwfuiBgim1r0t5gco10_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwfuiBgim1r0t5gco11_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwwfuiBgim1r0t5gco12_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://jejecooksrice.tumblr.com/post/51191351450/noface-nameless-mynle-mercurymoans" class="tumblr_blog">jejecooksrice</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://noface-nameless.tumblr.com/post/51161169529/mynle-mercurymoans-missinglinc-that-last">noface-nameless</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mynle.tumblr.com/post/51160913157/mercurymoans-missinglinc-that-last-gif">mynle</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mercurymoans.tumblr.com/post/47552992901/missinglinc-that-last-gif-slayed-my-entire">mercurymoans</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://missinglinc.tumblr.com/post/31838923305/that-last-gif-slayed-my-entire-soul">missinglinc</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>That last gif slayed my entire soul.</p> </blockquote> <p>This woman gives me hope. </p> </blockquote> <p>always reblogging.</p> </blockquote> <p>it’s how i fell in love with wanda sykes </p> </blockquote> <p>Reblog every time</p></blockquote>http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51192345766http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51192345766Fri, 24 May 2013 10:38:25 +0900Japan's wartime brothels were wrong, says 91-year-old veteran: lostintrafficlights: SAGAMIHARA,...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51145431576http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51145431576Thu, 23 May 2013 22:03:17 +0900comfort women“In one 1962 survey roughly 90 percent of White people believed Black children had an equally...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51136673896http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51136673896Thu, 23 May 2013 17:15:26 +0900“They always show the guys shouting “Death to America!!” Just once I wish the media would show...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51136435397http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51136435397Thu, 23 May 2013 17:06:39 +0900arari replied to your post: i’m so inept when it comes to beauty stuff and&#8230; The oil has...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51135253867http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51135253867Thu, 23 May 2013 16:25:00 +0900arariladyfaceshai replied to your post: ladyfaceshai replied to your post: &#8230; You’re so fucking...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51134478803http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51134478803Thu, 23 May 2013 16:01:00 +0900ladyfaceshaipeaceshannon: sheryllrenata replied to your post: sheryllrenata replied to your post: … I...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51134453979http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51134453979Thu, 23 May 2013 16:00:24 +0900sheryllrenataladyfaceshai replied to your post: i’m so inept when it comes to beauty stuff and&#8230; I mean...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51134279766http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51134279766Thu, 23 May 2013 15:55:00 +0900ladyfaceshaisheryllrenata replied to your post: sheryllrenata...http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51134241596http://peaceshannon.tumblr.com/post/51134241596Thu, 23 May 2013 15:54:03 +0900sheryllrenata