Tori Toguchi
@toguchi.bsky.social
Co-creator of Ichariba Choodee: Okinawan Voices and Stories and Shimanchu Visual Archives.
Based in Los Angeles, from Hawaiʻi. Okinawan Gosei.
Shimanchu Discord: https://discord.gg/XCjsaPwDx6
Based in Los Angeles, from Hawaiʻi. Okinawan Gosei.
Shimanchu Discord: https://discord.gg/XCjsaPwDx6
Mango Sticky Rice Matcha and Pumpkin Spice Latte with colleagues today. ☺️
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Mango Sticky Rice Matcha and Pumpkin Spice Latte with colleagues today. ☺️
Two different Okinawa Soba, both with Asa (アーサー). Soba on the left also has Yushi Dofu (ゆし豆腐).
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Two different Okinawa Soba, both with Asa (アーサー). Soba on the left also has Yushi Dofu (ゆし豆腐).
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Join us 11/18 at 1 p.m. ET for our 3rd annual webinar on the state of trans rights. 🏳️⚧️
We continue to face a wave of coordinated attacks from both state & federal levels. Tune in as we break down these fast-moving developments & what they mean for trans people.
RSVP now: tinyurl.com/45tmvz56
We continue to face a wave of coordinated attacks from both state & federal levels. Tune in as we break down these fast-moving developments & what they mean for trans people.
RSVP now: tinyurl.com/45tmvz56
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us 11/18 at 1 p.m. ET for our 3rd annual webinar on the state of trans rights. 🏳️⚧️
We continue to face a wave of coordinated attacks from both state & federal levels. Tune in as we break down these fast-moving developments & what they mean for trans people.
RSVP now: tinyurl.com/45tmvz56
We continue to face a wave of coordinated attacks from both state & federal levels. Tune in as we break down these fast-moving developments & what they mean for trans people.
RSVP now: tinyurl.com/45tmvz56
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Bashofu textiles, crafted from Okinawan banana fibers, achieve softness, durability, and breathability through precise artisan techniques that optimize fiber structure for subtropical comfort.
Bashofu textiles combine banana fiber structure and artisan skill for sustainable comfort
For as long as humans have been around, we have been using our hands and senses to create beautiful and useful objects from the natural environment around us.
phys.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Bashofu textiles, crafted from Okinawan banana fibers, achieve softness, durability, and breathability through precise artisan techniques that optimize fiber structure for subtropical comfort.
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A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
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The Mitsuishi Ainu Society is holding an Ainu Music Festival on Sunday at the Hamanasu Hall in Shinhidaka. Free entry, doors open at 12pm and performances start at 1pm.
Ainu artists Oki & Rekpo, Marewrew, Nin Cup and Kapiw & Apappo are among those performing.
More info: kaih.at/iEHLM
Ainu artists Oki & Rekpo, Marewrew, Nin Cup and Kapiw & Apappo are among those performing.
More info: kaih.at/iEHLM
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The Mitsuishi Ainu Society is holding an Ainu Music Festival on Sunday at the Hamanasu Hall in Shinhidaka. Free entry, doors open at 12pm and performances start at 1pm.
Ainu artists Oki & Rekpo, Marewrew, Nin Cup and Kapiw & Apappo are among those performing.
More info: kaih.at/iEHLM
Ainu artists Oki & Rekpo, Marewrew, Nin Cup and Kapiw & Apappo are among those performing.
More info: kaih.at/iEHLM
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“Housing is harder and harder to build, but projects like Umeya show what’s possible when community and legacy come together.”
laist.com/news/housing...
laist.com/news/housing...
How the LA site of an iconic Japanese cracker brand became supportive housing
The Umeya is meant to act as a bridge between Skid Row and Little Tokyo.
laist.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“Housing is harder and harder to build, but projects like Umeya show what’s possible when community and legacy come together.”
laist.com/news/housing...
laist.com/news/housing...
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A life-changing moment of my academic career was the decision to do language training at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. Great teachers and location in Yokohama. The call for the next cohort is now posted! #Japan #language #PhDLife iuc.fsi.stanford.edu/programs-10M
IUC Programs 10-Month
iuc.fsi.stanford.edu
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A life-changing moment of my academic career was the decision to do language training at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. Great teachers and location in Yokohama. The call for the next cohort is now posted! #Japan #language #PhDLife iuc.fsi.stanford.edu/programs-10M
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Tsukazan-aza, Haebaru Tsunahiki in Okinawa last year. Unfortunately didn't make it to the actual tug of war but experiencing this district's way of celebrating it was fun!
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Tsukazan-aza, Haebaru Tsunahiki in Okinawa last year. Unfortunately didn't make it to the actual tug of war but experiencing this district's way of celebrating it was fun!
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［戦後８０年］戦没７人の遺骨 壕に 糸満真栄里 入れ歯も 弾貫通か 京都のＮＰＯ収集
［戦後８０年］戦没７人の遺骨 壕に 糸満真栄里 入れ歯も 弾貫通か 京都のＮＰＯ収集
2025年11月08日 08時40分
www.okinawatimes.co.jp
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
［戦後８０年］戦没７人の遺骨 壕に 糸満真栄里 入れ歯も 弾貫通か 京都のＮＰＯ収集
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Fábio Akamine's research into his family history was kindled by his uncle's stories and even after his passing, continues to be ever present. He shares how their relationship evolved and how it lead to a book and exhibition presented in Okinawa and Brazil.
Shinko Akamine, my teacher
I still have half a dozen long videos to review. They're recordings from recently digitized old VHS tapes, capturing my family's Christmas celebrations in the 1980s and 1990s. Between the antics of the kids and the excitement of some slightly drunk uncles, the Akamine family's true Christmas spirit invariably reveals itself in two moments on …
discovernikkei.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Fábio Akamine's research into his family history was kindled by his uncle's stories and even after his passing, continues to be ever present. He shares how their relationship evolved and how it lead to a book and exhibition presented in Okinawa and Brazil.
A photo in Kyoto from 2018.
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A photo in Kyoto from 2018.
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My goal for the next ten years is to build the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory (@giflab.bsky.social) into one of the leading Geography research groups in the world.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
My goal for the next ten years is to build the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory (@giflab.bsky.social) into one of the leading Geography research groups in the world.
Last year's experience at the Haebaru Kasuri Kaikan with my friend, Mai. Learning more about the textile and its history and seeing masters at their craft was such a cool experience!
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Last year's experience at the Haebaru Kasuri Kaikan with my friend, Mai. Learning more about the textile and its history and seeing masters at their craft was such a cool experience!
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The article states this will be a crisis of proportions not seen since the Great Depression & I cannot stress enough that this is all being willfully inflicted upon us because an octogenarian's having a temper tantrum
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The article states this will be a crisis of proportions not seen since the Great Depression & I cannot stress enough that this is all being willfully inflicted upon us because an octogenarian's having a temper tantrum
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I found a capybara pebble🤎
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I found a capybara pebble🤎
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Unpaid air traffic controllers will miss their first full paycheck on Tuesday, traditionally an inflection point in previous government shutdowns—but sick calls are already on the rise.
Air Traffic Controller Sick Calls Are Ramping Up—Expect Flight Delays To Climb
Unpaid air traffic controllers will miss their first full paycheck on Tuesday, traditionally an inflection point in previous government shutdowns—but sick calls are already on the rise.
www.forbes.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Unpaid air traffic controllers will miss their first full paycheck on Tuesday, traditionally an inflection point in previous government shutdowns—but sick calls are already on the rise.
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The climate record in song!
gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/2...
gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/2...
Place-based science from Okinawa: 18th-century climate and geology recorded in Ryukyuan classical music
Abstract. Indigenous knowledge can record scientific observations of specific “places” that may be difficult to preserve in the geological record. Such a place in “place-based” science highlights issu...
gc.copernicus.org
October 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The climate record in song!
gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/2...
gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/2...
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In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, a map of Tongva villages by Sutimiv-Pa’alat from the website of Julia Louise Bogany, the Tongva elder and educator who passed away in 2021. www.tobevisible.org/tongva-villa... #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Tongvaland
Tongva Villages
To Be Visible
www.tobevisible.org
October 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, a map of Tongva villages by Sutimiv-Pa’alat from the website of Julia Louise Bogany, the Tongva elder and educator who passed away in 2021. www.tobevisible.org/tongva-villa... #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Tongvaland
First day back at work. Second day back in Los Angeles.
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
First day back at work. Second day back in Los Angeles.
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Left a copy of Hammajang Luck by @makana-yama.bsky.social at Pōʻai in Chinatown, Honolulu!! Hoping a local reader will enjoy this book as much as I have!!
Anywhere else on Oʻahu I should drop a copy of this awesome book? 👀
Anywhere else on Oʻahu I should drop a copy of this awesome book? 👀
January 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Left a copy of Hammajang Luck by @makana-yama.bsky.social at Pōʻai in Chinatown, Honolulu!! Hoping a local reader will enjoy this book as much as I have!!
Anywhere else on Oʻahu I should drop a copy of this awesome book? 👀
Anywhere else on Oʻahu I should drop a copy of this awesome book? 👀
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The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts
The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...
www.aaup.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.