What South Korea’s ‘Queen of 4B’ Wants Americans to Know

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'Ji Yeon, who also goes by her American name Canti, is a 27-year-old YouTuber and a graduate student in media and gender studies based in Seoul. American women might know her as the “Queen of 4B,” referring to the South Korean movement aimed at creating a world without men. 4B — shorthand for four Korean words that all start with bi-, or “no”: bisekseu (no sex), biyeonae (no dating), bihon (no marriage), and bichulsan (no childbearing) with men — is both an ideological stance and a lifestyle, and its ideas went viral in the U.S. in the weeks following the reelection of Donald Trump. Ji Yeon has been practicing 4B since 2018, which has since given her, she says, a true sense of liberation. “I realized, ‘Oh, I can just be myself. I don’t have to conform to what society deems acceptable.’” Since April of this year, she has been corresponding with and hosting social-media ask-me-anythings about the movement with mostly American audiences. Last week, we had a long talk about 4B’s rise in America and the power of global feminist solidarity.'