しけいぬウチナアンチュウぬ日ぐすぅじさびら。 Shikee nu Uchinaanchu nu hi Gusuujisabira. Happy World Uchinanchu Day. 💖🌏🏝🌊☀️

"I have the right to know the contamination status of my own land." The English version of my latest article about the environmental impact of military operations in Okinawa is now online at @okinawatimes.co.jp. Please take a look. www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1...

1. Been thinking lately about the aesthetics of militarism and the military origins of fashion apparel. As Teresia Teaiwa shows, the bikini emerges out of the history of nuclear bombing of Bikini Atoll and the Marshall Islands: www.jstor.org/stable/23701...

The Sameer Project’s donations are down 45% today but their work is unfortunately far from over. Give to the South campaign, which supplies 200,000 liters of water a day: chuffed.org/project/1132...

PFAS countermeasure costs could be excluded from natnl subsidy next year, forcing Okinawa prefectural govt to bear ¥1.6 billion. Okinawan water bills have already increased, as Japan covers only 2/3. This petition demands GOJ keep covering the costs as a national responsibility. chng.it/DvWSZPbSxz

Written by Haley Harrison. www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... A quiet rebirth of a once-banned tattoo practice is taking place. Moeko Heshiki, one of the few remaining hajichaas, lays out her stick-and-poke tools with practiced care.

Haitai gusuyoo. Finally made a Bsky account. Mostly here for Okinawan community and scholarly connections.