Morale is great. 😭

On top of that, we're now not allowed to pay for meals at "primarily" faculty and staff events--and "staff" includes graduate students which is several levels of messed up. So that speaker you wanted grad students to network with? Nope, you can't feed them all lunch.

Ooh yes, always enjoy (e-)meeting other descendants! Have you been to the Heart Mountain pilgrimages @marinaomi.bsky.social?

I think many of them knew it was being used, had in fact witnessed and learned from Indigenous land use as they built lives for themselves in those regions (settler origin myths even recognize this), they just used the notion to justify the theft. We can't let them off the hook that easily.

Thanks, I'll take a look at those!

Oh yeah the little house books are very deeply embedded in that colonial rhetoric, I'm not surprised they used that logic

At the very least it should be "Japanese American internment" and you should have to justify why you are using that term against the wishes of the community.

2) internment is inaccurate, see @denshoproject.bsky.social terminology & @jacl-national.bsky.social power of words for why. If you're not aware of this yet, I'm not sure you should be mentoring/teaching students on the topic 3) it's unclear if they're discussing Japanese Americans or Japanese POWs.

Trump is not mentioned as much as I would have thought but I suppose that's just a given for Washingtonians at this point 🫣

Also @jimmyskuya.bsky.social @kaylenjoi.bsky.social @sammaj.bsky.social thanks in advance!

@napaaqtuk.bsky.social @redped.bsky.social @aprilanson.bsky.social @brunomarzipan.bsky.social @kaseyrk.bsky.social thinking you may have leads?