E. Tammy Kim
E. Tammy Kim is a freelance reporter, former attorney, and contributing opinion writer at The New York Times. She has written about labor, politics, arts and culture, and the Koreas for outlets including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She is the co-author and co-editor of Punk Ethnography, a book about the politics of avant-garde world music.
When You Are Paid 13 Hours for a 24-Hour Shift
Co-published with The New York Times. America’s neglect of older people extends to the people who care for them at home.
Moms 4 Housing: Redefining the Right to a Home in Oakland
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. As the housing crisis intensifies across the Bay Area, an activist group of black mothers called Moms 4 …
The Fight Against Trump’s Other Family Separation Policy
Co-published with The New York Review of Books. The Trump administration’s plan to terminate the Temporary Protected Status program, if successful, will separate more than a quarter …
The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation
Co-published with The New Yorker. In 2006, a group of nineteen archivists, librarians, curators, historians, and anthropologists gathered in Arizona to draft a set of best practices for dealing …