Victoria Cho
@msvictoriacho
Thank you R. O. Kwon 권오경 for writing TO Asian women. We are so exhausted of defending ourselves TO white people.
On food as medicine, community advocacy, and cooking: Victoria Cho spoke w Sun Yung Shin : meet me on Bluesky & IG editor of “What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family.” Food is active in these pages — it heals, identifies, connects, and resists. apogeejournal.org/2021/07/12/wha…
My essay on mental health trends in my family and in South Korea was published by The Offing. Thank you to editors Vonetta Young and Mimi Wong for your guidance, encouragement, and patience. theoffingmag.com/insight/surviv…
"I knew the story’s end before it appeared in the news the next day. Of course: the mayor died by suicide. And then I thought, 'How Korean.'" Read Victoria Cho's Insight Essay, "Survival Mechanisms" CW: suicide theoffingmag.com/insight/surviv…
Thank you to Joseph Han for the edits and guidance! Grateful to be part of this folio stewarded by Kundiman staff, fellows, and instructors, whose spirit inspires me. Follow Kundiman Community to learn how to support the community.
"Each environment posed a series of threats, which Mirae managed to thwart by attacking first." —from 'A Recessive Trait' by Victoria Cho (Victoria Cho) joylandmagazine.com/fiction/a-rece…
"[S]he could not help feeling it was incomplete, too false to be effective, and that no amount of direction could teach her to connect to someone from her past." —from 'A Recessive Trait' by Victoria Cho (Victoria Cho) joylandmagazine.com/fiction/a-rece…