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There's only one reason to be on social media at this point: gazafunds.com
The final word of James Baldwin's No Name in the Street, which I read for the sixth time this morning, is: Ghost.
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The final word of James Baldwin's No Name in the Street, which I read for the sixth time this morning, is: Ghost.
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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
[W4G] Blanket Friday Drive
W4G's 2026 Blanket Friday campaign is collecting funds for The Sameer Project's "GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" campaign! Winter rainfall is here, temperatures are dropping, and families are still without shelt...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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
[W4G] Blanket Friday Drive
W4G's 2026 Blanket Friday campaign is collecting funds for The Sameer Project's "GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" campaign! Winter rainfall is here, temperatures are dropping, and families are still without shelt...
t.ly
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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
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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.
Back from the Underworld | Brandon Shimoda
“Your use of your history to shield yourself is a betrayal. You have a lot of healing to do for yourself and for the harm you have caused.”
thebaffler.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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.
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"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...
Disabled people around the world are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza."
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
chuffed.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"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...
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
brandonshimoda.substack.com/p/vanishing-clarity
Vanishing Clarity
an introduction to a festival of the dead as occasional writing
brandonshimoda.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I couldn't sleep last night so I started a substack:
brandonshimoda.substack.com/p/vanishing-clarity
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
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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
Samer Abu Hawwash - Ruins and Other Poems — WORLD POETRY
SAMER ABU HAWWASH RUINS and OTHER POEMS Translated from Arabic by HUDA J. FAKHREDDINE
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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.
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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.
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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.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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.
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...
chuffed.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
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So timely. But it shouldn't have to be timely for these stories to matter. I just registered.
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
Register here: t.ly/HT233
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So timely. But it shouldn't have to be timely for these stories to matter. I just registered.
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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...
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
m.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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...
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
Register here: t.ly/HT233
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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
Register here: t.ly/HT233
I can't imagine a year when this wasn't true.
A Nobel Peace Prize in this year feels like throwing a towel over vomit so you can pretend it away
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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
I wrote about it @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: t.ly/DbxB5
October 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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
I wrote about it @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: t.ly/DbxB5
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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.
Open Letter on the Wakasa Memorial Stone and Site (sign on and share by October 31st)
We, the Wakasa Memorial Committee, are issuing this public call to action and cooperation, with the goal of having the community move forward to protect and preserve the Wakasa sacred site and its mem...
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September 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Join the campaign to center Japanese American survivors and descendants! Add your name today.
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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.
Open Letter on the Wakasa Memorial Stone and Site (sign on and share by October 31st)
We, the Wakasa Memorial Committee, are issuing this public call to action and cooperation, with the goal of having the community move forward to protect and preserve the Wakasa sacred site and its mem...
docs.google.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
—Assata Shakur
September 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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
—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
I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5
September 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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
I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5
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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...
Black Trans Academic Targeted and Fined for Pro-Palestine Speech
Black trans academic suspended and fined for pro-Palestine/anti-z1onist speech.
chuffed.org
September 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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...
