The capitalist world order that enables, condones, justifies, and profits from everything described here needs to be destroyed. thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Seeing from Sameer Project that tents are breaking down. We are so angry that this is the ask since people should not have to continue to be displaced… but please pitch in so that they can replace tents that have torn and disintegrated after 2+ years. chuffed.org/project/1132...

The Hiroshima Library—an itinerant reading room of 200+ books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—is coming this spring to Seay Music Library at Colorado College. I'm seeking/accepting donations of books, magazines, etc. no matter their condition. Message me if you're interested.

My friend Mohammed and his community in a displacement camp in Gaza are in need of water. If you're interested in donating, please DM me. I and many other people have purchased trucks of water, but any amount, no matter how small, helps and is appreciated.

What do these two things have in common? 1. Establishing a Japanese American concentration camp as a National Historic Site. 2. Thanking ICE for "protecting the homeland." The first part of my long-winded answer is here: t.ly/Ah55W

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

For @truthout.org I wrote an analysis of the mass deportation boom during 2025. Amid all the spectacle, the passage of the funding bill in July was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy and the Trump administration's aspiring fascism. truthout.org/articles/tru...

Since I wrote this last week, two more people have died in ICE custody: Heber Sanchaz Domínguez and Victor Manuel Diaz. That’s at least 6 people dead in ICE camps so far in 2026, and it’s only mid-January.

"Poetry seems central to how we redress these kinds of wounds. The poetry needs to happen for anything to be redressed or anything to be healed." –Brandon Shimoda on the afterlife of Japanese American wartime incarceration

My friend Mohammed and his community in a displacement camp in Gaza are in need of water. If you're interested in donating, please DM me. I and many other people have purchased trucks of water, but any amount, no matter how small, helps and is appreciated.

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

Sameer Project update about their Refaat Alareer camp: “We have nearly 500 students in our Hasan School on the grounds of the Refaat Alareer Camp…We recently expanded to accommodate additional students from the surrounding areas to offer quality education and an approved curriculum.”

I'm really interested in the Kibei experience in post-war Japan and the Ryukyus. If anybody has any readings or oral histories to share, I'd be interested!

Please help @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social & @thellpsx.bsky.social, in memory of Alice Wong, with eSims for Gaza! If you are feeling helpless, this is one way to help keep lines of communication open! In memory of Alice! 💖 If you can't help please share!

I have a poem in the new @new-sinews.bsky.social, thanks to @illepitaph.bsky.social. The poem — Grains of Rice — is long, complicated; traces inheritances, internalizations, and overlapping violences in my family's history (in Guangzhou, Hiroshima); and takes place at a Wendy's in New Jersey.

James Baldwin, A Rap on Race:

A screen recording of a 60 Mins segment about the CECOT prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be aired today but was pulled last minute for "unclear reasons." Despite being pulled, it aired on Global-TV in Canada anyway: archive.org/details/60mi...

3 months ago, I bought a water truck (1000+ gallons) for a community in Gaza. I've been raising funds since, to keep the water deliveries steady. The community remains in desperate need—of water, plus funds for food, tents, blankets. Message me if you're interested in donating.

My book The Afterlife Is Letting Go came out 1 year ago today. Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful. The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M

Trees, poetic hemorrhage, eating breath / Books I read in 2025, the second post of my newsletter, Vanishing Clarity: t.ly/ihbDL

Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter: spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

Happy pub day to Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social now available on the Noemi website! Be sure to check out Raquel's interview with Caroline Tracey for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social also out today: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/a-border-w...

Kyo Maclear and @brandonshimoda.bsky.social bond over their quest to understand what it means to grow, parent, and exist within the many layers of self. . . . on BRICK Literary's "Writer to Writer" podcast bit.ly/3KwFRls Shimoda is the author of THE AFTERLIFE IS LETTING GO (City Lights Dec 2024)

Border Patrol has raided the @nomoredeaths.bsky.social humanitarian aid camp several times in the past, but this is the first time volunteers have witnessed agents enter structures without a warrant, marking a significant escalation in the agency’s cruel and illegal conduct at the border.

🚨 On Sunday, November 23, U.S. Border Patrol illegally entered the No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station and arrested three people who were receiving aid, without a warrant.

Ty Brandon! If a poster w/animals and blankets isn’t your thing, TWO of Brandon’s books are available for purchase in our online bookstore (linking below). Proceeds also to Sameer’s Give Warmth to Gaza campaign!

Donate to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's "Blanket Friday Drive," collecting funds for The Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign to provide urgently needed blankets, waterproof tarps, tents, warm clothes to families in Gaza to protect against harsh winter conditions: t.ly/_spUL

In 2019, a group of Japanese American activists came to the offices of a group complicit in the incarceration of migrants hoping to confront one of their own: the CEO is herself the offspring of migrants sent to internment camps during WWII.

"Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong. Disabled people around the world are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza." chuffed.org/project/crip...

Marcia Douglas, from The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs @ndbooks.bsky.social

New @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social: Samer Abu Hawwash's Ruins and Other Poems, translated from the Arabic by @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social: t.ly/zGd5r

3 months ago, I bought a water truck (1000+ gallons) for a community in Gaza. I've been raising funds since, to keep the water deliveries steady. The community remains in desperate need—of water, plus funds for food, tents, blankets. Message me if you're interested in donating.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

I can't imagine a year when this wasn't true.

Please consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of Japanese American incarceration history, and the Wakasa memorial site and stone at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah: t.ly/jh2dE I wrote about it @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: t.ly/DbxB5

Join the campaign to center Japanese American survivors and descendants! Add your name today.

On April 11, 1943, James Hatsuaki Wakasa was walking his dog at Topaz when he was shot and killed by a guard. His fellow prisoners erected a stone memorial. When the U.S. government ordered it destroyed, the prisoners chose, instead, to bury it where it remained hidden for nearly 80 years.

We began to write poetry about love and Black people, and sometimes we wrote morbid poetry about hate and death... The more we read, the more we wrote. And it came in handy in the street. If we didn’t like somebody, or if we had some dispute with someone, we wrote a poem about them. —Assata Shakur