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.

Announcing our first workshop in the new year - one that we had to postpone due to low sign-ups impacted by the doxxing and fed-jacketing of one of our members. The workshop, "Revolutionary Prison Poetry" with F. Spoliar and S. Soule has thankfully been rescheduled for January 4th, on zoom.

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.

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

The path of totality / You are losing time (on my mom's cemetery texts, crows and dandelions, the graves of Fred Korematsu and Bobby Hutton, and the total solar eclipse of 2017), the third installment of my newsletter: t.ly/UNPex

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

Meet Maggie's pigeons (keep scrolling down):

if you're interested in covering THE HUNGERING YEARS, a debut collection by a palestinian writer abt friendship & food & art & obsession, pls reach out to me or my publisher (editors at hostpublications dot com) 👼

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...

Coming soon @blacklawrence.bsky.social: @sunyungshin.bsky.social's Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language — the inaugural selection of the Immigrant Writers on Immigrant Writing Series May 2026: t.ly/5GHw9

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...

I couldn't sleep last night so I started a substack: brandonshimoda.substack.com/p/vanishing-clarity

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.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...

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?

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.