SEB IDEAS FROM QUEER KOREA
Ruin Chapter:
- ID cards denoting gender as state violence

Hwang Chapter
- Korean shaman origins with Siberia (destabilizing colonial notions of Japanese origins)
- Spiritual illness of men, who cross-dress, switch to female, “homosexual marriages with those male spirits” (66)
- Flower boys cross-dressing to gain access to female spaces, illicit behavior (68)
- Emasculation of Korea: rationalizing its submission (female) to Japan as linked to weakening masculinity (MtF shamans)
- Sungsinin (female shaman guild), performed Shinto rituals for political acceptance, but Hwang calls this “colonial drag”, which allowed them to exist, make money, and perform subversive parodies that continued a tradition under siege by mainstream-ists calling for modernization/erasure of impure spiritualists