2025 was nothing if not full.

Full of books and movies and live music, sunny days and Lake Michigan beaches, community defense patrols and protest medic workshops, the laughter of my niblings and the tears of my comrades, making Seollal (설날) dumplings with queer Koreans and making art with disabled grievers, protests and vigils and prayer circles and pungmul (풍물) performance.

I loved Sinners so much I saw it twice, and keep playing the soundtrack too. The Emperor of Gladness made me cry, We Do Not Part gave me chills, and Martyr! and Hot Girls with Balls were both a delight. Focusing on nonfiction proved a bit more difficult but Omar El-Akkad, Mohammed El Kurd, and Eve L. Ewing published absolute must-reads. I finally left Spotify, and filled up my Tidal playlists with new music from Kneecap, Mon Rovîa, and NoSo.

My professional website, previously with BDS boycott target Wix, now lives at Squarespace and is also the home for a blog with a few previous Substack posts and space for future musings. This monthly Buttondown newsletter will gather content from across my website, Instagram, and other outlets as I continue to grow Yeojeong LLC’s disability justice and grief work. I hope that you’ll stay to follow along, and share with friends and comrades.

My Most Recent Blog Post: What Grief Taught Me This Year

I sat with grief a lot this year. It was my most consistent companion, whether I wanted the company or not. Whether my own or others’, grief was ever present. In some ways, this was by design. In other ways, its timing was frequently unplanned but its presence wasn’t necessarily unexpected. And so as I reflect on this year, I’ve been contemplating what grief continued to teach me in 2025.

From 2025 Into 2026

Thank you, as always, for your ongoing support of me and Yeojeong LLC. 2025 had a slow, rough start but I’m ending it feeling centered and grounded in purpose and vision. I’m grateful to the Collective Loss Adaptation Project (CLAP), #LetUsBreathe Collective, National Lawyers Guild Chicago chapter, CULTIVATE Fellowship, and more for partnership and trust. And to Randy Kim’s Banh Mi Chronicles and Rohan Zhou-Lee (writing for Mochi Magazine) for inviting me to speak with them about suicidality and police violence against adoptees this year.

In 2026, I plan to expand my grief care services and education, and experiment with new ways to provide capacity-building support and technical assistance. And throughout it all, I’ll keep providing disability justice-centered administrative, facilitation, resource mobilization, and coaching support to independent writers and artists, social justice leaders and organizers, and nonprofit, community, and grassroots organizations and collectives.

So until then, may the new year be full of warmth, comfort, and ease. See you in 2026!

With solidarity and care,
Jung & Yeojeong LLC