E. Tammy Kim

Puffin Foundation Fellow

E. Tammy Kim is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, a contributing editor at Lux magazine, and a Type Media Center Puffin Foundation Fellow.

https://etkwrites.tumblr.com/

Highlights

Donald Trump’s Pro-Union Labor Secretary

The nomination of Lori Chavez-DeRemer reflects MAGA’s working-class contradictions.
E. Tammy Kim The New Yorker

Zooey Zephyr’s Defense of Trans Lives in a Deep-Red State

E. Tammy Kim writes accompanying text for Kimberly Reed’s short documentary, “Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr,” which covers the journey of Zooey Zephyr, a trans woman and Democratic Montana State Representative, through the final weeks of the 2023 legislative session.

E. Tammy Kim The New Yorker

Can MAGA Be Multicultural?

E. Tammy Kim discusses her efforts to understand Trump’s appeal to nonwhite voters.

E. Tammy Kim The New Yorker

Käthe Kollwitz’s Raw Scrapes

Type Media Center fellow E. Tammy Kim writes about Käthe Kollwitz, the German printmaker, who took war and revolution as her subject, stretching the narrative boundaries of the form, and putting women, especially mothers, at the center of the action.

E. Tammy Kim The New Yorker

Dissolve Into Nothing: The enigmatic science fiction of Djuna

Type Media Center fellow E. Tammy Kim covers the role of science fiction in South Korea, with a spotlight on Djuna’s Counterweight.

E. Tammy Kim The Nation

How the Yale Unions Took Over New Haven

A decade ago, blue-collar campus workers won a majority on the city council. Would an alliance with grad students dilute their power?

E. Tammy Kim The New Yorker

The Upstart Union Challenging Starbucks

Baristas nationwide are remarkably organized. Is the company’s C.E.O., Howard Schultz, using firings, store closures, and legal delays to thwart them?

E. Tammy Kim The New Yorker

A Welcome Unfreedom in South Korea

Quarantining with my mother in her homeland, I questioned the U.S. approach to the pandemic and public health.
E. Tammy Kim  The New Yorker

Do Today’s Unions Have a Fighting Chance Against Corporate America?

For the workers who haven’t joined the Great Resignation, this moment has inspired a new wave of organizing — and a brutal pushback.

E. Tammy Kim  The New York Times Magazine

Exit Polls in Seoul

Rising panic over housing costs and a misogynist backlash culminated in the election of a new strongman president in South Korea.

Return Flights

Return Flights

Two hundred thousand South Korean children have been adopted since the Korean War. Adoptee memoirs, once full of confession and confusion, are now marked by confidence and rage.

E. Tammy Kim  The New York Review

The Lummi Nation’s Secret to Saving Fragile Ecosystems

E. Tammy Kim  The New York Times

China and the Lore of American Manufacturing

In Ohio’s Senate race, both candidates are employing anti-Asian rhetoric and neglecting to hold corporations to account.

E.Tammy Kim The New Yorker