Yoon (they/them) is a trans/nonbinary filmmaker and organizer raised by communities in and around New Jersey and New York. Growing up in a family of mixed classes and statuses, they were exposed to a diversity of identities early on. It was through a classbased understanding of identity that Yoon mediated other modes of identity, such as queerness and love. Acknowledging the beauty of romantic love and romantic queer love, they describe their formative experiences as being shaped by community, spirituality, and family. Yoon soon began to understand that love could also be a collective force. In their own words, queerness is how someone builds relationships outside of what the “norm” may be; queer people are anyone who chooses to live outside a nuclear family, “having the liberation to be with whoever is best for you.”

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CREDITS
Directed by Deborah Baik & Kimberly Young Sun
Interviewer: Deborah Baik
Editor: Kimberly Young Sun @kimberlyyoungsun
Camera: AJ Valente @ajyval, Janice Chung @janicekaramchung
Gaffer: Jason Chew @chewchomp
Sound: HJ Lee
Prop Stylist: Celine Son @clnsn
Production Coordinators: Yoon Perera Lee, Celine Son
Onsite Therapist: Kim Konopka

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