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Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice

November 2, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing Friday, November 15, 2025 from 9 a.m.–5 p.m 2121 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704 Hosted by The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (CRRJ) at UC Berkeley Law, in collaboration with If/When/How: Lawyers for Reproductive Justice, Movement for Family Power, and the Gender Journal, […]

Categories: 2024, appearances, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Amanda Wallace, berkeley law, Dorothy Roberts, Gender Journal, If/When/How: Lawyers for Reproductive Justice, Kim Ye, Movement for Family Power, Operation Stop CPS, ProMomme, Promomme: a sex workers guide to parenting, reproductive justice, sex worker abortion navigation services, Sex workers outreach project los angeles, SWANS, SWANS SWOPLA, SWOPLA, The Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, UC Berkeley Law

U Up?

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Thursday, September 5th, 4-5 pm, A snippet of U Up?, a multi-media VJ set by Kim Ye, is to be shown during The Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group presentation of Content Warning: Ecologies of Sex & Motherhood over Zoom. During this piece, Kim Ye takes the viewer on a psychosexual journey via […]

Categories: 2024, EVERYTHING, news • Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Content Warning:Ecologies of Sex & Motherhood, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Kim Ye, Stanford university, Stanford's Center for Critical Studies in Race and Ethnicity, The Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group

CONTENT WARNING: Ecologies of Sex & Motherhood

September 6, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Thursday, September 5th, 2024, The Performing Asian American & Diasporic Sexualities Working Group will conduct a studio visit and artist talk with Kim Ye titled Content Warning: Ecologies of Sex and Motherhood, on East Asian femininity, erotic labor, and the collision of the domestic with the apocalyptic. This virtual event will take place from […]

Categories: 2024, artist presentation, conversation, EVERYTHING, news, screening • Tags: & Sex Work Working Group, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Asian American Research Center, Gender and Women’s Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Kim Ye, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Transpacific & Asian American Art Working Group, UC Berkeley Performance Studies, Zihan Loo

The Whore Gaze: Understandings of Care, Labor, and Sovereignty

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Sunday, June 2nd, 2024, from 2-5 pm, LACE Screening Room will present THE WHORE GAZE: Understandings of Care, Labor, and Sovereignty, a film project curated by Elizabeth Dayton and Kim Ye at the Philosophical Research Society at 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Drawing on filmmaker PJ Starr and activist Sonyka […]

Categories: 2024, collaboration, conversation, curatorial projects, event or performance, EVERYTHING, news, screening • Tags: Ayushi Shriamwar, Chichi Castillo, Elizabeth Dayton, Eva Wu, Hers is Ours Collective, Kim Ye, LACE Screening Room, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, May May Peltier, Naomi Fleur Jahan, Neda Chaturvedi, Philosophical Research Society, PJ Starr, Sonyka Francis, Taihr Ahmed Quereshis, Yin Q, Yoon Grace Ra

There is No Sincerity Without Irony

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

On Saturday, May 11th, 2024, from 4-6 pm, the AHL Foundation Inc. will open the 2024 AHL-Chun Family Foundation Curatorial Open Call Exhibition: There Is No Sincerity Without Irony, at the AHL Foundation Gallery located at 2605 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10030 (corner of 139th Street). The opening will feature a performance by Kyoung […]

Categories: 2024, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news • Tags: AHL Foundation, Hyeree Ro, Jiwon Rhie, Joyce Chung, Kakyoung Lee, Kim Ye, Kristina Wong, Kyoung eun Kang, Sara Jimenaz

Where is Your Body

May 16, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

“Where is Your Body” will be exhibited at SOMArts from April 25th, 2024 – May 24th, 2024. Curated by Delaney Chieyen Holton, “Where is Your Body” gathers women/trans/queer artists of API diasporic experience engaged in practices of the body to explore questions of labor, memory, and desire. “Where is Your Body”, addresses the body – […]

Categories: 2024, EVERYTHING, group exhibition, news • Tags: APICC, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Delaney Chieyen Holton, Edi Dai, Erina Alejo, Hailey Loman, Kayla Tange, Kim Ye, Learning Palestine, Nibha Akireddy, Private Practices Collection, Rachel Youn, Ruka Kashiwagi, Sholeh Asgary, SoMa San Francisco, Thuong Hoai Tran

Working Girls Press

January 22, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Working Girls Press, founded in 2023 by Molly B Simmons and Emily Marie Passos Duffy, is set to release their inaugural issue, “The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, Magic, and the Divine.” The edition will be available as an ebook as well as a paperback. “The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, […]

Categories: 2024, EVERYTHING, news, publication • Tags: Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Kim Ye, Molly B Simmons, Working Girls Press

Challenging dominant narratives: Queer sex worker art in Los Angeles

January 8, 2024 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

“Challenging dominant narratives, interrupting objectification, and queer creativity: Queer sex worker art in Los Angeles” Published in the Journal of Lesbian Studies Authored by Wei Si Nic Yiu, Lauren Levitt, Kim Ye, Kimberly Fuentes, and Ashley Madness. This research paper co-authored by Kim Ye with support from SWOPLA, draws on queer of color critique and […]

Categories: 2023, collaboration, EVERYTHING, news, publication • Tags: academic journal article, Ashley Madness, Feed the Fam, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Kim Ye, Kimberly Fuentes, Lauren Levitt, peer reviewed research, Research paper, Sex workers outreach project los angeles, Shanisia Person, SWOP Los Angeles, SWOPLA, Wei Si Nic Yiu

Fellowship: Stanford 2023-2024 CCSRE Mellon Arts Fellow

September 18, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Kim Ye has been elected to join Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity 2023-2024 Mellon Arts Fellowship cohort. Kim Ye will join an extraordinary pool of artists and art practitioners committed to the artistic lives of communities of color from across California. Other 2023-2024 CCSRE Mellon Arts fellows include Rodrigo Reyes […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, Grant, news • Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Brown, CCSRE, Centering Race Consortium, CRC, Fellowship, IDA, Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford, Kim Ye, Stanford, Stanford university, Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity 2023-2024 Mellon Arts Fellowship, University of Chicago, Yale

Fellowship: California Arts Council Creative Corps

August 17, 2023 by Isabel Sosa Whitelaw

Kim Ye has been selected to receive a year-long California Arts Council’s CA Creative Corps Fellowship. Kim Ye engages in a multi-disciplinary, research-based practice that engages gendered constructions around power, and the entanglement between public space and private desire. Through their Fellowship, Kim Ye will work with SWOPLA to address social justice and community engagement […]

Categories: 2023, EVERYTHING, Grant, news • Tags: CA Creative Corps Artist, California Arts Council, California Healthy Places Index, Community Partners, Culture Bearer Fellowship, Fellowship, Los Angeles, Orange County