a pika-pillar!!!

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

Scores of graduation pix on my phone but these are the mems I want to remember ꒰⁠⑅⁠ᵕ⁠༚⁠ᵕ⁠꒱⁠˖⁠♡ love you @ntxoo-art.bsky.social so proud of you getting your masters in illo !!!!

Made this self-cooking self-heating bibimbap kit on the amtrak, once again proving that Asians live in the future

Wow realized that I don't have a good sense of what neurodiverse is because I don't actually know what neurotypical looks like ¯⁠\⁠_⁠ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ⁠_⁠/⁠¯

if this plant can grow in the basement of my apartment building then you too can go on to fight thru another day!!! Ganbarimashou!!!

For Mother's Day - prints from the Free Our Mamas campaign to free incarcerated mothers! justseeds.org?s=People%27s...

Postcard in solidarity with all who came before us and all who will exist after 2/2 #bakekujira #digitalillustration

Postcard in solidarity with all who came before us and all who will exist after 1/2 #ryujin #digitalillustration

I desperately want to make a web comic about being an uchinanchu organizer living in the Southside of Chicago and how fighting the Quantum Facility and the US military base on Oura Bay are basically the same fight (with so many complicated differences)

Finished installing at the IL State Library in Springfield! Put up art and banners from the last 9+ years of the campaign to end Money Bond and now fund Public Defense in IL ✊🏼 @endmoneybond.bsky.social

If May is Asian American Pacific islander heritage month, then April is East Asian Ignorance and Audacity month

If you know these bags we may be kin

Descendant of a Japanese American WW2 Incarceree here to say it's never about "innocent" or "guilty" it's about who is a target for the state. Those in power will make you guilty/illegal if they want you to be and we must all see thru the bullshit. Free them ALL

Talked to DePaul students today about their relationship to time, and asked if they ever interact with their future selves. One student said that the future is too terrifying and so they cope by just trying to live thru the present ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ deeply relatable, deeply distressing. Free our futures ‼️

‼️Calling farmers, food studies scholars, and people interested in how Indigenous communities call upon their knowledge to survive in times of war and colonialism to join us for “Let’s Make Beni-Imo Tart! Lessons in Community Care from the Ryūkyūs.” www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/let...

This may be one of the worst moments in history to fetishize the law or the quality of being law-abiding.

!!!! This is hands down the best news I've heard in weeks (⁠っ⁠˘̩⁠╭⁠╮⁠˘̩⁠)⁠っ (love on the spectrum season 3 spoilers)

Aww Scott Kurashige shared the illustration I made for the Boggs Foundation at a panel at the Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Ed conf in Oakland today! Thanks Karen Su for being an academic scout and sending me these pics (⁠◡⁠ ⁠ω⁠ ⁠◡⁠)

In Tulsa, learning about the massacre/war crime/genocide at Black Wall Street in 1921 and how it became coded in history as a 'riot'..... Grateful for the Greenwood memory keepers, oral historians, survivors, descendants, who are keeping truth alive

Prisons Must Fall 🌱 Happy Publication Day to this beautiful, hopeful book by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball, illustrated by @ollycostello.bsky.social! 💐

So obsessed with this talk by @littlebadger.bsky.social and Joshua Whitehead hosted at the Newberry Library last week. Rolled up with @laurakina.bsky.social and @tatiakamine.bsky.social to be a lil shimanchu contingent ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

Love love love this sign by @mtvk.bsky.social I struggle with movement things that don't plug directly into organizing, but showing up with multiple gens of shimanchu - to revel in trans power and weather the sun showers - did comfort my despair!!

LOL why did we decide to pose like this (⁠─⁠.⁠─⁠|⁠|⁠）loved talking to Karen's 'Asian American Life Stories' students last week! Wish I could have taken a class like that as a student!! @jaminlin.bsky.social

The shipping company Maersk (mare-sk? mar-sk?) controls 20% of the worlds shipping and the **majority** of the military goods sent to Israel 😧 Notes from the Palestinian Youth Movement teach in about their campaign for a peoples' embargo on Maersk ‼️‼️

Death has returned like a shadow that followed us. Today is not October 7, but this is the same nightmare in a different moment, a different hour, a different year.

Talking to my mom about the administration and she told me she's been reflecting a lot about how King Nebuchadnezzar was cursed to eat grass for seven years before he believed in Daniel's God.... Idk what lesson she was pulling from that exactly... but they really don't smite them like they used to

I don't think anyone here is able to attend a daytime workshop but I just want to say that it's so fun to gig with my sister @jaminlin.bsky.social !! To get up on my mini soapbox and look over to see her on her own soapbox as well 😆

gofund.me/8726d81f pls support my friend tomo if you're able !

Happening now: in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, students at Sullivan High School are walking out this afternoon in protest of ICE and Trump's deportation regime.

I'm all for the boycott today. not because I think it will make any kind of strategic or material impact on the targets, but because I support any and all small stabs right now!!! Maybe if we practice stabbing together with a toothpick more people will feel able to stab with a skewer next time 🗡️

!!!URGENT!!! THE SAMEER PROJECT ONLY HAS ENOUGH FUNDS TO CONTINUE OPERATING IN THE NORTH FOR 3 MORE DAYS. THIS IS VERY BAD. DONATE NOW!!!!! chuffed.org/project/help...

I'm honored to kick off Sudan Solidarity Collective's new Workshops4Sudan fundraising initiative. Please sign up for my talk, 'Black Beyond Borders.' I'll discuss Black US migration, mobility, statelessness, and citizenship. I'll also discuss rejecting Black nativism and xenophobia!

Broke out the tiny brushes to make the precious beings for our chicago2okinawa zine 🌿 fauna/flora endemic to the islands habu - blueberry hermit crab - yambaru yatsushiro orchid - sashigusa !!

As an audiobook lover who refuses to pay for audible, I am forever in debt to the teachers who read books aloud on YouTube to their students during the pandemic !!!

Introducing my boifriend to my mom like...

Now, the USPS is preparing to push back as Trump moves to dissolve its leadership and bring the independent agency under his administration’s control. America, this cannot be allowed—protecting the USPS is essential. Please share this and call Congress.

Messy notes from a Migra Watch training last night! Led by Ellen + Anooshka from Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago with content from OCAD!

This is the kind of shit I love and why I think it's so powerul when people who make things are also people who organize

Leonard Peltier has made it to North Dakota! The temperatures are bitter cold today, but our hearts and spirits are on FIRE for our Elder and Leksi (Uncle) Leonard. ❤️‍🔥 Read our press release for more about Leonard's welcome home event tomorrow ndnco.cc/lphomepr

Making a basket for a chronically ill friend who's going thru a really hard time. I am thinking about them and how amazing they are while I add stitches, hoping that the love gets embedded like a spell.

Damn there was a small group of neighbors at the Jackson Park post office today trying to speak to a manager because they haven't gotten their mail in two weeks 😲 mail supervisor said they have been massively understaffed for weeks. PLS NO, NOT MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FEDERAL INSTITUTION 😭

Feeling overwhelmed in the face of rising fascism + attacks on our communities? Digital security is one way you can resist. Join us for Digital Security 101 for activists, organizers, and anyone from a community that may be targeted by online attacks and government repression. RSVP: bit.ly/DS_FEB

TY Southside Together for sounding the alarm on the Quantum facility in the works in South Shore. Major alert for Southside residents but also everyone who cares about toxins in the lake and the militarization of Chicago 😭

wow every day I'm grateful for Nikkei Uprising but some days shit just hits 🌞

Justice for Sam Nordquist 💔💔

Looking forward to sharing this book with the world this spring. Imagining the transformative questions & conversations that will arise from this storyline is helping me remain energized for the world we are building. Pre-order a copy of the book today! Follow @haymarketbooks.org for updates ❤️‍🔥