Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com). Register here: t.ly/HT233

So timely. But it shouldn't have to be timely for these stories to matter. I just registered.

I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus. Sound—at the Interregnum. Glen Coulthard Madeleine Thien Canisia Lubrin Immanuel Wilkins Whew. What they did!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...

Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com). Register here: t.ly/HT233

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

Please read/consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of the most significant artifact discovered in the WWII Japanese American concentration camps, the Wakasa memorial stone, and its site: t.ly/jh2dE. I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5

Instead of writing think pieces pointing out the hypocrisies of free speech white nationalists, support a Black trans scholar who is being punished by their employer after the very same fascist zionist machine came after them: chuffed.org/project/1455...

one of my contacts in G has been profusely thanking me for our diligent support because we've been keeping their eSim active since last summer. we are almost at 3 million CAD! anyway this is what i've been thinking about rather than charlie kirk. bit.ly/eSimsRUs

If you have a post go viral PUT A SURVIVAL FUND IN THE REPLIES.

“Writing is, then, for me, an act and a process of mindfulness, which is as difficult in writing as it is in life, but which, for me, often only happens because of writing.” —Brandon Shimoda coloradosun.com/2025/08/31/s...

Thanks to @brandonshimoda.bsky.social for pointing to Nour on twitter who's foregrounding innumerable ways to help Gazas directly—with water, food, medical care, rent. DM her there at @TF7_AAWLA if you want to help out. Honored to share this water truck delivery with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

Has anyone written about how the Stop Asian Hate movement of 2021 was a counterinsurgent, anti-black strategy to re-validate and super-fund the police following the George Floyd uprisings of 2020?

Ghouls abound.

This is important. It's also important to note that in an article about Japanese American groups, only 1 of the 4 people quoted is Japanese American. The other 3 include the white ED of the JA National Museum (here representing the JA community) and a spokesperson for the Dept of Homeland Security.

Does anyone know if June Jordan's More than Enough, her manual for land reform in Mississippi, completed in 1971, but never published (it was rejected by the publisher that commissioned it), is available anywhere? There's an excerpt from it in Civil Wars, but anything (or all of it) anywhere else?

"I urge you not to let chains silence you or borders hold you back. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our plundered homeland." —from a translation of Anas Al-Sharif's final tweet: t.ly/bU0iR

1. Fargo Nissim Tbakhi's Terror Counter, which we've highlighted many times here. You can support the Sameer Project by purchasing it from our curated online bookstore w/Open Books: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

This will be our thread for W4G's Sealey Challenge. To support us, fill out the sponsor pledge form or contribute directly now. Include W4G in the notes section so we can keep track. Our goal is $1k in pledges and contributions this month: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/sea...

My book The Afterlife Is Letting Go (City Lights) won the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction, thanks to CO Humanities. Here's the speech I gave at the ceremony. I talked about how on a night of celebrating books we should be thinking about the fact that there are no libraries left in Gaza.

If you're interested in either of my new books — The Afterlife Is Letting Go / The Gate of Memory — please consider buying them @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social, where all proceeds go directly to The Sameer Project's urgent medical care campaign in Gaza: t.ly/uD4Nv

from the brilliant, incisive Brandon Shimoda: thebaffler.com/latest/alien... As terrified as America is of the aliens & enemies it has invented to defer dealing with its own deterioration, it is more terrified of the people, in their actuality & essence, on whom they have forced their inventions.

"...cognitive dissonance has become a political orientation. It has framed our watching-daily, hourly, for generations— the reality of what American money and materiel does to entire populations of people, their bodies, their histories, their land." @brandonshimoda.bsky.social

I wrote about Trµmp's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, the trial of Mitsuye Endo, the example of Japanese American incarceration, pledging allegiance to war, the inherence of fascism, and my grandfather's Alien Enemy Wind-Up Doll™ @thebaffler.com: t.ly/n07l7

During World War II, the U.S. government disappeared more than a quarter-million Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans under the Alien Enemies Act. Now, Trump is reviving the law. @brandonshimoda.bsky.social reflects on the horror of history repeating.

Syd Westley, in The Gate of Memory ( @haymarketbooks.org )

Hello all, our friend Hamza Salha’s GFM has been unjustly shut down. Am not sure how many received refunds yet but I did (though my donations were on the smaller end). We created a new one with Chuffed (which has been far more supportive): chuffed.org/project/1355...

For Father's Day, my daughter gave me one pack of instant masala noodles, two q-tips, and asked me to donate $70 (her figure) to a father in Gaza, so I donated to Adel Al-Areer, the brother of poet Refaat Al-Areer, and his family: t.ly/9fADn. Here's a drawing by Adel's 8-year-old daughter, Seela:

connection is out in northern Gaza…help us buy esims urgently chuffed.org/project/crip...

Americans, please do this. You owe it to Palestinians www.blockthebombs.org

Not only did the Whitney Museum cancel the performance, they cancelled the entire program it was part of: the Independent Study Program, which has been running since 1968: t.ly/VRurO. Read this open letter to the Whitney, signed by 300+ ISP alumni/faculty: ispalumni.org

Mona Oikawa at The Gate of Memory/Heaven Looks Like Us event in Toronto, 5/31. Both anthologies are @haymarketbooks.org. Oikawa is the author of Cartographies of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory and the Subjects of the Internment. Photo by Kerri Sakamoto. Flag by Paper Cranes for Palestine.

The Whitney Museum cancelled a performance mourning the genocide in Gaza—No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom, by Noel Maghathe, Fadl Fakhouri, Fargo Tbakhi, with scores by Natalie Diaz, @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, me—saying that a previous version of it "valorized specific acts of violence" t.ly/92aDK

from @intifadabatata.bsky.social and Noor Hindi's intro to Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, new @haymarketbooks.org: t.ly/fNEu4