Ah-reum | 한아름

I am reading tonight with the good folks at @TheInnerLoopLit - if you’re in the area tonite, come through 🫶🏼🙃

To the world we dream about, and the one we live in now

To understand my family, you must understand that this is breakfast; my aunt woke at dawn to prepare this meal so that I could at least taste chuseok food before I leave. I will be missing the holiday by a day

In the back listening to my parents bicker about the most efficient route to hot pot rn is peak summer vacay vibes

Hot take: Parasol > Hat

My parents and I just cackled over this new comedy, 6/45 (육사오). It features a rogue lotto ticket, north/south political intrigue, star-crossed lovers, a strong woman, k-pop dance numbers, & poop jokes. No better way to spend these summer nights than to laugh with loved ones

So far packing for my Korea trip has meant ordering indiscriminate quantities of fish oil and shark cartilage to gift. Today I got this delivery pic that confirms my package at what is def not my door. But to whoever lives here—I wish you only the silkiest joints and eternal skin

A gift youtu.be/jxiluPSmAF8

When a Korean mama comes to visit, they never ever come emptyhanded ❤️

“We forget, without her sex and sin and agony, none of us would even be here. Never mind that any second we might be headed into exile ourselves—bare feet blistered and sooty, nothing but sky and stars for shelter, the past a sunken garden of regret.”

Body appreciation post bc recovery is hard and womaning is hard: This time last year I was passing out going up half a flight of stairs or getting up in the night to use the bathroom, and here we are