Tomorrow May 5

Come out to SFSU on May 5 and see Kristina Wong perform her new show on food insecurity and justice.

Kristina Wong May 5 SFSU

“I could not be more proud of you, Mahmoud…What more could I ask for as a role model for our children than a man who, with unwavering conviction, stands up for the liberation of his people, fully cognizant of the consequences of speaking truth to power?”

So satisfying to watch this movie in this political moment.

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

Student who sued Trump takes powerful stand against ‘constant dread’ of deportation threats www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my 55 years,” says Beth Pratt, a regional executive director for the National Wildlife Federation, who lives near Yosemite and is working on a book called “Yosemite Wildlife.” “Just to want to gut the Park Service? I don’t understand it.”

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

I think “Huey” is me in this interview. I am “Huey”. 🤣 “Wong, despite limited financial resources, decided to fight back through the courts, which Huey said was not especially out of character for Chinese Americans in those days.”

“We’ve done many things to now get the fourth and fifth generation [of Japanese Americans] to recognize that there have been long-term impacts and that they have a stake in stopping the same injustice that was perpetrated against us back then,” said Ina, 80.

“You’re losing your job, and then your department that you’ve poured your heart and soul into for more than 20 years is also going to be eliminated,” Tung said. “But I feel like some of the deeper pain is that future students are not going to get what we have to offer and what we’ve been offering.”

Unlike the spatula in your kitchen, you can’t control what packages a restaurant uses for takeout. And as of 2021, third-party food delivery has grown into a more than $150 billion global industry. That’s a lot of takeout containers. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/sole...

“This book exposes Revelation’s apocalyptic logic at work in the history of Chinese exclusion, the association of the unwanted and the disease, the contradictions of citizenship laws, and the justification for building a US-New Mexico wall like the wall around New Jerusalem.” Congrats JanJan!

“Although we think of these repatriation drives as federally driven, they were largely enacted by local officials, a stark reminder that local governments have tremendous power to harm — but also to resist. Grassroots activism can push back, lean in and go high when others go low.” -Natalia Molina

My department is conducting a search for an Assistant Professor of Japanese American/Nikkei Studies. We could be colleagues!

“We have no choice but to persevere, keep educating our potential allies, keep sustaining our local and transnational communities through mutual aid, care, transformative justice, and basic humanity, knowing we cannot rely on presidents to save us.”

For the @nytimes.com I wrote about how Enough is Enough with the incumbent president and his cabinet of folly and let’s stop coddling Trump voters and be real clear-eyed about what lies ahead. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

“There is no time for rest. We are seeing real danger,” Yoo said. “We’re going to push and we’re going to have to be brave.”

And again, full now but a selection of women working in/waffling about history for you to choose from go.bsky.app/KNeAnRj

A starter pack on Ethnic Studies Professors. Hit me up to add you to the pack.

If you are at #NWSA2024, check out our latest call for papers on "Feminism, Antifeminism, and The Mobilization of Regret." Deadline May 1. signsjournal.org/for-authors/... #NWSA #CFP #feminism

I found the starter packs for historians. Where are the starter packs for Asian American Studies scholars?