We mourn the loss of historian Art Hansen. Thanks to @kenjitaguma.bsky.social for giving us a chance to remember him and his lifetime contributions. Subscribe to the Nichi Bei News.

Thanks to the Seattle Mariners for taking us to a place we’ve never been before. If you had suggested to me in the spring that we’d play a game 7 in the ALCS, I would have happily taken it. We’ll get em next year.

In the darkest of times, we still have baseball for self-care. Thanks to Feliks Banel for having me on his "Cascade of History" radio program to relive the agony of Friday's @mariners.com 15-inning walk-off win in Game 5 of the ALDS, on @space101fm.bsky.social. on.soundcloud.com/wvwTIyBZVHhq...

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies. No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

Frank Abe is always worth listening to

This story isn't going away. The Nichi Bei News has posted a web version of its coverage of my June 22 talk on "What Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportation Today:" www.nichibei.org/2025/08/what...

"We want parks, not prisons! Park rangers, not ICE agents!" -- Huy Pham, APIAHiP: Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation on the Seattle waterfront for the National Day of Action to Protect Every Park.

This is a crucial moment to safeguard our collective memory, especially as efforts to erase our histories grow stronger. Become a monthly donor and ensure stories of Japanese American WWII incarceration—and the lessons they carry—remain visible, powerful, and protected. densho.org/historykeepe...

It’s a clear line from the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans to the abduction of innocent people off the streets today. Thanks to @benhamamoto.bsky.social for this coverage in the Nichi Bei News of my June 22 talk.

Thank you @frankabe.bsky.social and the rest of the #AAJA25 organizers for educating me about this important part of Asian American media history

Thanks Alex for the great photo. Glad you could join us for the tour of Seattle Chinatown. #AAJA25

The most detailed story yet from one of my recent talks on the links between wartime incarceration and ICE abductions. Thanks to Kai Curry and the Northwest Asian Weekly, and to the King County Library System for having "We Hereby Refuse" as their "One Bellevue, One Book."

❗ Oh! And while I have your attention: If you'll be in the King County, WA, next weekend, go see Frank's talk at the Bellevue Library:

SUCH a great graphic novel. Get a copy while you still can! @frankabe.bsky.social, will you have copies available (I know 2,000 is not a ton) at your event at Bellevue Library next Saturday?

The wait is over. Our book is proving hard to keep in print. Thanks to all the readers picking up on this story. Now in its fifth printing of just 2,000 more copies, get yours now or order for fall and winter classes while you can. www.chinmusicpress.com/product-page...

Join @kcls.org on August 9 for a talk by author @frankabe.bsky.social about the parallels between present day mass deportation, Japanese American wartime incarceration & his graphic novel, We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration: kcls.bibliocommons.com/events/67eef...

In this excerpt from Together in Manzanar, @tracyslater.bsky.social delves into the complicated & quite often contradictory government policies that dictated the lives of mixed-marriage families & multi-racial Japanese Americans inside America’s WWII concentration camps. densho.org/catalyst/rac...

Honored to have our graphic novel WE HEREBY REFUSE centered for "One Bellevue, One Book" at the Bellevue, WA public library. I'll speak Aug. 9 on "What Japanese American Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportation Today." If you're in the area see the full series at 1.kcls.org/onebellevue

Here's the video of our conversation at the "Changing Perspectives" symposium connecting the daily terrors and cruelties on the street with the same violations of due process and habeas corpus against our families 80 years ago. Keep pushing back and speaking out.

Look for this book when it's published July 8. Elaine and Karl Yoneda were central figures in the Manzanar Revolt, but as @tracyslater.bsky.social shows us, there is much more to their story and to Elaine Black Yoneda in particular.

Farewell to Brian Wilson at age 82. He outlived both his brothers and I'm grateful to have his music. He had already composed this bittersweet farewell for the band's 50th anniversary in 2012 with the "Summer's Gone" suite. Give it a listen to the end in his memory. youtu.be/T7LcrQ1ONlU?...

Love Taylor Tomlinson. It's the last week of her show and she has zero fucks to give. www.youtube.com/watch?v=89z-...

HUGE congratulations to @frankabe.bsky.social and @tamikonimura.bsky.social on the well-deserved success of this book, and this invaluable historical resource #booksky #skystorians

Nearly 15,000 copies of WE HEREBY REFUSE sold over four printings. A 5th printing coming this month, in time for those teaching it this fall. Sadly more relevant than ever: abuse of the law, lies about invasion, and denial of due process and habeas corpus. It's all in the book. Give it another read.

Still time to register for the big camp conference on June 21-22. Not just a history lesson but a time to regroup and prepare for the fight ahead. Registration extended to this Friday, June 6. www.jampilgrimages.org/changing-per... See you all soon.

On behalf of @jacl-national.bsky.social and 60+ organizations, @asianlawcaucus.org, @aaaj-aajc.bsky.social and the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality filed an amicus brief asking the court to preserve the essential right to due process and ensure judicial review of executive orders.

Join us in Oakland in three weeks. I’ll speaking June 22 on “What Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Tells Us About Mass Deportation Today.”

VIDEO of our May 13 presentation of "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, with Floyd Cheung, moderator Cathlin Gouldling, and readings from the @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology by Hunter students.

I'm still processing everything we saw in the public staged reading of my new stage adaptation of John Okada's novel, NO-NO BOY, at the Seattle Rep on May 8. Here's a blog post with a few thoughts. resisters.com/2025/05/20/f...

A well-researched warning from Tracy Slater connecting the targeting of two marginalized groups, then and now. lithub.com/how-trumps-a...

You can livestream our conversation about what "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" from @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social tells us about mass deportation today, on Tuesday @ 6:00pm ET/3:00 pm PT at this link, from Hunter College. www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/liter...

Just finished the extremely relevant "We Hereby Refuse" by @frankabe.bsky.social et al. History rhymes. #booksky bookshop.org/p/books/we-h...

In NYC, join Floyd Cheung and me, in-person or via Zoom, as we present our @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social anthology of "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" with Cathlin Goulding on May 13 at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. RSVP here: bit.ly/3EKO1Un

If you care at all about the connections between wartime incarceration and mass deportation now, you'll want to be at this conference coming up June 21-22 at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. Organized by @jampilgrimages.bsky.social. Register at: www.jampilgrimages.org/changing-per... 1/2

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The people whose families were sent to US concentration camps in WWII understand what's going on today.

Here is the text of my public talk at @wellesley.edu showing how closely the stories of enemy alien internment, denial of due process, and pressures to self-deport that we present in our graphic novel, WE HEREBY REFUSE, presage the daily terrors unfolding across the nation as we speak.

The cast is set for our script workshop that starts May 5th and culminates in a public reading on May 8th. No pressure. Sorry to say that tickets for the Seattle Rep black box theater are sold out, but with luck you may have the opportunity to see this play performed sometime down the road. #nonoboy

A reunion of editors at AAAS: with Floyd Cheung at the Nichi Bei Foundation booth for “The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration,” and with Floyd and Greg Robinson at the @uwapress.bsky.social table for “John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of NO-NO BOY.” #aaas2025

In Mahmoud Khalil's letter from ICE detention in Louisiana, he cites Japanese American incarceration and Mitsuye Endo, who was incarcerated in the Tule Lake concentration camp, and whose case before the Supreme Court led to the closing of the camps. Read his letter here: t.ly/A04cc

Thx to those who came to our panel on "Interpreting Japanese American Incarceration in the 21st Century Through Alternative Methods,” at the Association for Asian American Studies conference in Boston, where I shared some of the challenges of adapting NO-NO BOY for audiences in 2025. #aaas2025

At the Assoc. for Asian American Studies conference in Boston, pls stop by the Nichi Bei Foundation table to talk about how you can connect "The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration" from @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social with how the government is repeating that history in this moment.

The Seattle Rep is hosting a four-day workshop with live actors and award-winning director Leslie Ishii to further develop my new stage adaptation of John Okada's NO-NO BOY. Tickets for the public reading on Thursday, May 8, 7:30 pm in the PONCHO Forum are here: www.seattlerep.org/events/speci...

Preparing to discuss reframing the dramatic narrative of a beloved novel from 1957 so that it speaks to an audience in the theater in 2025., at a time of "resurgent ethnonationalism & fascism." This will be no ordinary annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies in Boston 1/

Powerful readings from the poets and insightful commentary from the editors of “The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration,” at Elliott Bay Books in Seattle. Connections drawn to the kidnappings and intimidations on the streets and in the schools of America today.

If you ever wondered what you would have done in World War II when Japanese Americans were sent to concentration camps—now you know. It’s what you’re doing now.

Gotta love the imagery of this poster by designer Soe Lin Post for my upcoming public talk April 22 at Wellesley College. It visually links the ICE kidnappings and deportations with our graphic novel “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.”