Category: BTS
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In Boraland We Trust
The post came through on a Sunday morning, still early enough that the house was quiet. A girl in Texas was asking all of ARMY to help her find the stranger she’d sat next to at BTS Vegas, Day 3. Section 135C, Row 29, Seats 10 and 11. The stranger was from somewhere near Stanford.…
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Whose Tongues Come First
A ParentSquare notification arrives in Tamil and the dropdown to switch is buried four screens down. An essay on mother tongue, colonial inheritance, and the joy of learning Korean in my fifties.
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Serenading The Fandom: Forever We Are Young
Last night my three daughters and I sat in a smallish theater surrounded by fellow BTS fans and watched BTS ARMY: Forever We Are Young, a documentary on the global fandom that is the BTS ARMY. A few months ago when this well made documentary premiered at SXSW, my interest was piqued. I figured I…