Want my painting of Anti-Fascist Coyotes? Bid on it now and support a great LA land back org, Coyotl Macehuallis. www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

I'm running out of storage space! Looking to donate some older, large-ish paintings to your home, office, or organization's wall. Will deliver if within LA. DM for details! @artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art

Sending federal agents to Governor Gavin Newsom's press conference in Little Tokyo in front of the Japanese American National Museum is giving peak little dick energy

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

Little Tokyo is a community of immigrants. Happy to have worked with Mitsuru Sushi to create this temporary mural of the owner's sisters and father. Support this legacy business! Huge thanks to Nellita's Craft for facilitating and for supplies. #art #streetart #mural #portraits #paintings

Birthright citizenship This Chinese American man's SCOTUS case established it for anyone not yt or black.

Getting started on a mural for a Little Tokyo storefront that's been boarded up due to protests against the ICE raids. Annoying to see our community of immigrants get tagged up by outsiders protesting in solidarity with immigrants. #immigrants #littletokyo #art #mural

When your sign is supposed to say "NO ICE" but ends up looking like "NOICE." Kerning matters. #graphicdesign #noice #meltice

doing surveillance to the surveillance state www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...

Remember dear reader, we can no longer call the interment of 120,000 Japanese Americans "bad," it is now officially "double plus ungood." #orwell

Another portrait for Asian Americans who think ICE is not our fight. Quok Shee came to the US in 1916 with her husband & was detained at Angel Island in SF. She had to fight for nearly 2 years. Finally in 1918 a judge ruled that immigration officials had abused their power & withheld information. ⬇️

More for Asian Americans who think the ICE raids have nothing to do with them.

For Asian Americans who think the government's anti-immigrant raids have nothing to do with them, a little thread.🪡

Do you support ICE? Fine. Here's the thing. ICE is violating the 14th Amendment rights of citizens, legal residents, and undocumented people. Supporting ICE means you are against the US as a constitutional republic and for a fascist dictatorship. Just admit it, because the rest of us can see you.

Who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose? Who does the time? Who follows orders? Who salutes longest? Who prays loudest? Who dies first? Who laughs last?

"Volunteer Fire Department" A thread on advice on extinguishing tear gas disseminated during the HK protests, in rough chronological order when they appeared. It's interesting to see how 'best-practice' evolved through 2019 as frontliners got better at neutralizing the stuff Source: TG (Oct 2019)

ICE raid in Chinatown, Los Angeles Nearly two hours of video - for those collecting intel on goon squads www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Hottest in summer girls-guys-any attire 🥽🥽 ⛑️⛑️ 🛴🛴 🎒🎒 Orange cones brigade

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Just a reminder to other Asians and Asian Americans that this is our fight too. #losangeles #fuckice

Sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles is the same thing as sending a few dozen random people to a gulag in El Salvador, they're doing this because it's a thing they've always wanted to do, not because of any broader goal or coherent plan. Subordination of strategy to tactical planning.

No one is obligated to obey a president who flouts the Constitution.

I had this painting I didn't like lying around. So I decided to give it a makeover. I worked on composition, value, texture, and color palette. What do you think of the result? Leave a comment! #painting #art #asianamericanartist #figurativepainting #artcollector #losangelesartist

What a beautiful definition of writing by Davé, drawing on T. King’s “The Black Shoals” #indifference #anthropology

New limited edition prints of my portrait of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. A % goes to Gaza relief efforts. His influence on me: the poetics of displacement and longing in his work. www.kenjiliu.com/art-store/p/... #art #mahmouddarwish #poetry #poet @artisforliving.bsky.social @bsky.art

If publishing actually wants more working class writers, more POC writers, more trans writers, more disabled writers, more *any* marginalised writers, the solution is really simple: PAY THEM. Give writers enough money to live and they'll give you all the words you want.

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, California celebrates the over 6M people of AAPI descent who call the state home. This month is an opportunity to honor the incredible resilience of AAPI communities and recognize their many contributions to our state.

A district court judge just found that the Alien Enemies Act proclamation is clearly illegal. Guess who appointed this left-wing criminal judge? It rhymes with thump!

Gratitude to Christine W. Schiepke for buying a giclee print of my painting, "Suehiro Cafe" as part of Art Print LA's fundraiser for wildfire relief. She says: 1/2 #art #artforsale #giclee #artprint #fineart #littletokyo #losangeles #suehirocafe #artcollector

Covid could actually be over if we wanted it to be. But we were too desperate to insist that it was over when it wasn't. Our denial is going to ruin a lot of lives.

This is why I am working on a portrait series of important historic Asian American court cases, including this one of Wong Kim Ark. My next work in progress portrait is of Bhagat Singh Thind. @bsky.art @abbetuck.bsky.social

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

Nikkei family! Japanese American National Museum is bravely risking all to fight for our legacy and history while other institutions cower. Our parents and grandparents fought so hard for this museum. Now is our time. Donate! Donate! Fight! Give to JANM today www.janm.org/give

Part of an in-progress series I'm working on. This 40" x 30" is titled Wong Kim Ark v. United States (1898), a court case which established birthright citizenship. For me it's important to reflect on current events in my #paintings! @art-mutuals.bsky.social #art #wongkimark #asianamerican

as anyone tried smashing a Tesla cybertruck piñata yet? i feel like that would be pretty popular.

"The judge, Naomi Buchwald, said during a hearing in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday that “nothing in the record” indicated that Ms. Chung posed a danger to the community or a “foreign-policy risk” or had communicated with terrorist organizations." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/n...

anyone want to slide into my DMs with your weekend war plans

Thank you very much to my recent customers from Los Angeles who purchased these original paintings of Little Tokyo! #art #paintings #littletokyo #losangeles @bsky.art @artisforliving.bsky.social

Went to see this Sawako Goda exhibit today at Nonaka-Hill. Goda was a Japanese avant garde artist active for 50 years but the 1990s and 2000s are amazing. Recommend! #art #artist #painting

The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.

At #AWP25 in LA this month, visit the Kaya Press booth for outstanding API diasporic literature. And, they'll be selling 8"x10" giclee art prints of my paintings of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Mahmoud Darwish. #poetry #literaryportraits #art

I only have a few months of student loans left under PSLF and technically I have the paperwork showing I've got those months covered, was just waiting for the bureaucracy to take action. They better not expect me to keep paying.

If an artist's post about their work falls in the social media forest, does it make a sound?

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

"The only way to advance is together. Let's not get played again." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Current work in progress, an oil portrait of Korean American avant garde poet Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. #artcollector #artbuyer #poet #poetry #oilpainting #portrait #asianamericanartist #theresahakkyungcha #dictee #asiandiasporaartist #koreanamerican #art #artist @blueskyartists.bsky.social @bsky.art