Yoon Sook Cha is a writer and photographer based on the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ Nations (Vancouver, Canada). Her work examines the iterations of the self at the site of its inscription and decreation. She received her PhD from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Program for Structured Liberal Education at Stanford University. Cha’s published work includes Decreation and the Ethical Bind: Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other (2017).