![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Gringo Champion, a story about a young migrant worker on the U.S.–Mexico border (includes violence and explicit language).Grandmother’s Little Hut, a play about two runaway children in Stalin-era Russia.Sentimental Education, a story about a Japanese girl abandoned by her mother as an infant.Hunger, a personal essay about coming to punk-era L.A.Salar Abdoh, author of “Hunger,” at age 15 and today. (The essay includes descriptions of sexual violence.)įinally, look at a map of the so-called “ comfort stations” where girls and women were imprisoned and raped. They were presenting evidence, remembering, both their voices and bodies speaking of the truth.” “I photographed them because they wanted me to. (Trigger warning-describes sexual violence.)Īnd look through a photo essay that also includes photographs of Ok-sun: “ 70 years on, the “comfort women” speak out so the truth won’t die,” published by Amnesty International. ![]() Then, in the Emmy-nominated short documentary below, you’ll see how Granny Ok-sun and other former “comfort women” responded to a recent deal between Japan and South Korea. Listen to a four-minute radio story featuring “Granny Ok-sun”-as she is now called-commenting on a California statue commemorating victims and survivors like herself. As a teenager, Lee Ok-sun (the narrator of “Grass”) was kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese army. ![]()
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