@marimatsuda.bsky.social
Another printmaker, critical race theorist, intersectional feminist, organic gardener, found object instrument maker, metalsmith for peace. marimatsuda.art
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The Resistance Revival Chorus has a message for Home Depot: We don't want deportations at The Home Depot parking lots! #WeAintBuyingIt want to organize your own carols?!? Heres lyrics: bit.ly/holidaycarol...
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Resistance Revival Chorus has a message for Home Depot: We don't want deportations at The Home Depot parking lots! #WeAintBuyingIt want to organize your own carols?!? Heres lyrics: bit.ly/holidaycarol...
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“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."
— Assata Shakur
(July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)
— Assata Shakur
(July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)
September 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."
— Assata Shakur
(July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)
— Assata Shakur
(July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)
Solidarity action for marchers in Gunsan, Korea protesting destruction of tidal flats where the Sura birds live - to build yet another US military serving airport. Birds not bombs! Sura, aka Kuaka, long distance record-holding migratory champ, beloved in Polynesia, not just Korea.
August 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Solidarity action for marchers in Gunsan, Korea protesting destruction of tidal flats where the Sura birds live - to build yet another US military serving airport. Birds not bombs! Sura, aka Kuaka, long distance record-holding migratory champ, beloved in Polynesia, not just Korea.
Happy to support this project. Every kid should know Benjamin Lay.
Dear friends, please support @pmpress.bsky.social on Kickstarter as they prepare to publish our children's book, *Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery*. Get an early copy and a signed one! Other rewards also available.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...
Fearless Benjamin: The Quaker Dwarf Who Fought Slavery
A beautifully illustrated children's book on the life of Benjamin Lay, a courageous little person who stood tall against oppression.
www.kickstarter.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Happy to support this project. Every kid should know Benjamin Lay.
For Asian America the line between citizen and foreigner has never meant safety. Here is my etching from my grandmother’s painting of Heart Mountain, where she was imprisoned with her US citizen sons. My father volunteered for combat duty from behind barbed wire.
July 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
For Asian America the line between citizen and foreigner has never meant safety. Here is my etching from my grandmother’s painting of Heart Mountain, where she was imprisoned with her US citizen sons. My father volunteered for combat duty from behind barbed wire.
Happy May Day! To go with all of todayʻs union actions, here is when the amazing artist Favianna Rodrigues visited my drawings of 1940s-70s struggles. (Last week to see these at Native Books/Arts and Letters)
May 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Happy May Day! To go with all of todayʻs union actions, here is when the amazing artist Favianna Rodrigues visited my drawings of 1940s-70s struggles. (Last week to see these at Native Books/Arts and Letters)
Union power as far as you can see outside the Honolulu federal building. You will have to imagine the sound of hundreds singing Solidarity Forever to go with these pics.
May 2, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Union power as far as you can see outside the Honolulu federal building. You will have to imagine the sound of hundreds singing Solidarity Forever to go with these pics.
What was on the playlist at your university’s action today? Bet you can’t top The Times They Are A Changin followed by Kaulana Nā Pua
April 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
What was on the playlist at your university’s action today? Bet you can’t top The Times They Are A Changin followed by Kaulana Nā Pua
Aloha from the resistance, Honolulu.
April 6, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Aloha from the resistance, Honolulu.
Thanks, Mary, for pushing all of us to fight back. Humanities = human. Everything we do to survive and find love and know ourselves. Our beating hearts. Plus, once I was a debt-burdened asst prof who really needed those tiny grants.
I did this. Takes maybe one minute. Via American Historical Association.
p2a.co/DdtlGIT
p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
p2a.co
April 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Thanks, Mary, for pushing all of us to fight back. Humanities = human. Everything we do to survive and find love and know ourselves. Our beating hearts. Plus, once I was a debt-burdened asst prof who really needed those tiny grants.
The guy I count on for historically-informed strategy says it’s time to poke the bear. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
For Labor, Caution Is Fatal
The riskiest course is to stay the course.
inthesetimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The guy I count on for historically-informed strategy says it’s time to poke the bear. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
I take this personally. My dad volunteered while imprisoned at Heart Mountain. He believed in a united front against facism. He was the only one of his squad to survive the war. The 100th was feted in deep red Texas by survivors of the Lost Battalion rescue, a heroic story now buried as “woke DEI”
Two of the most decorated U.S. military units get scrubbed from Army website.
JACL condemns Trump erasure of 442nd and 100th Infantry Battalion – AsAmNews
The accomplishments of the Japanese American 442nd Regimental Combat unit and the 100th Infantry Battalion have been removed from the Army's website.
asamnews.com
March 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I take this personally. My dad volunteered while imprisoned at Heart Mountain. He believed in a united front against facism. He was the only one of his squad to survive the war. The 100th was feted in deep red Texas by survivors of the Lost Battalion rescue, a heroic story now buried as “woke DEI”
Found myself in a red state at the doorway of a coffee shop with a sign welcoming trans people. I felt safe. Cis women are safer where trans people are safer - my body felt this before my analysis even kicked in.
March 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Found myself in a red state at the doorway of a coffee shop with a sign welcoming trans people. I felt safe. Cis women are safer where trans people are safer - my body felt this before my analysis even kicked in.
Recycling signs from 2016, headed to Patsy Mink Statue.
March 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Recycling signs from 2016, headed to Patsy Mink Statue.
People ask if I think stop shopping day is a good tactic. I don’t care. It’s good for the soul, and 2 actual people from radically different parts of my life asked me to join the boycott. So I’m in. Not one cent to corporate America!
I think a lot of things are all simultaneously true right now:
1) we cannot confidently predict what will be effective
2) no one thing is going to be THE THING that makes all the difference
3) all of it matters in its own way
Some fights are worth having, no matter the odds. Leave teeth marks.
1) we cannot confidently predict what will be effective
2) no one thing is going to be THE THING that makes all the difference
3) all of it matters in its own way
Some fights are worth having, no matter the odds. Leave teeth marks.
My take on effective vs ineffective tactics on boycotts, protests, etc: Maybe due to working with students, or living in conservative area, I'm reluctant to dismiss most political action as ineffective or performative because if it means something to that person then it means something.
February 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
People ask if I think stop shopping day is a good tactic. I don’t care. It’s good for the soul, and 2 actual people from radically different parts of my life asked me to join the boycott. So I’m in. Not one cent to corporate America!
I am alive because when I got cancer the evidence-based best practice was an extremely aggressive all-day surgery + chemo. Most people die from the type of cancer I had, and the doctors needed the research to justify the risk of such an aggressive approach. Cutting off research will kill people.
🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
February 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I am alive because when I got cancer the evidence-based best practice was an extremely aggressive all-day surgery + chemo. Most people die from the type of cancer I had, and the doctors needed the research to justify the risk of such an aggressive approach. Cutting off research will kill people.
I was a lawyer for 40+ years and never saw the ABA - a conservative, traditionalist org representing all lawyers - issue a statement like this one condemning Trump lawlessness. AMA you got next! (Talk to your doctor about this)
Grateful to the @americanbar.bsky.social for this strong and important statement. Lawyers must stand firm for the rule of law and democracy.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
The ABA supports the rule of law
It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accor...
www.americanbar.org
February 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I was a lawyer for 40+ years and never saw the ABA - a conservative, traditionalist org representing all lawyers - issue a statement like this one condemning Trump lawlessness. AMA you got next! (Talk to your doctor about this)
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Students and faculty got arrested and put their careers on the line protesting genocide.
I want to see some Democratic officials getting arrested to protect democracy.
I want to see some Democratic officials getting arrested to protect democracy.
February 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Students and faculty got arrested and put their careers on the line protesting genocide.
I want to see some Democratic officials getting arrested to protect democracy.
I want to see some Democratic officials getting arrested to protect democracy.
Yesterday the egg shelf was empty at my local supermarket, while I was drawing this - that time they evicted the local farmers from Kalama Valley. From my current work in progress, 200 years of resistance in Hawai’i.
January 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Yesterday the egg shelf was empty at my local supermarket, while I was drawing this - that time they evicted the local farmers from Kalama Valley. From my current work in progress, 200 years of resistance in Hawai’i.
The Slaveship might be the most painful read of my life. Now he has written the antidote, just in time to remind us that no matter how bad it gets, there is a way forward. Thank you Dr. Rediker!
I’m a lucky man. My new book, *Freedom Ship* (May 2025) has received generous blurbs from Ed Baptist, Angela Y. Davis, Drew Faust, Eric Foner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Amitav Ghosh, Adam Hochschild, Robin D.G. Kelley, and Naomi Wallace.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...
January 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The Slaveship might be the most painful read of my life. Now he has written the antidote, just in time to remind us that no matter how bad it gets, there is a way forward. Thank you Dr. Rediker!
Hawaiians still here, as far as the eye can see. (Yesterday, march to the palace to show there is still no consent to occupation.)
January 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Hawaiians still here, as far as the eye can see. (Yesterday, march to the palace to show there is still no consent to occupation.)
Applies to visual artists as well. The challenge is doing this in visual language.
In this interview with +972 Mag, I talk about the necessity of articulating one's political and moral stances; the continuity between the genocidal, settler colonial regime of the United States and that of Israel;
December 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Applies to visual artists as well. The challenge is doing this in visual language.
Best writing advice ever was Nikki Giovanni, speaking as a working mom, saying don’t wait til you have quiet or inspiration or big blocks of time. That’s an excuse. If you have 10 minutes, sit down and write. I heard her saying that in my head my whole writing life. Thank you sister Nikki!
December 10, 2024 at 8:50 AM
Best writing advice ever was Nikki Giovanni, speaking as a working mom, saying don’t wait til you have quiet or inspiration or big blocks of time. That’s an excuse. If you have 10 minutes, sit down and write. I heard her saying that in my head my whole writing life. Thank you sister Nikki!
Out in the rain this morning at the Honolulu Korean consulate. Demanding democracy from ocean to ocean, from river to sea. I was a wet dog as happy as a Gene Kelly in the rain.
December 7, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Out in the rain this morning at the Honolulu Korean consulate. Demanding democracy from ocean to ocean, from river to sea. I was a wet dog as happy as a Gene Kelly in the rain.
We sat at tables of abundance while others stood in line for food. In the rain. And the slow build of contradiction in these, the last days of empire, told us it could not continue. Blessing to all who are setting a welcome table as we work for a righteous path beyond this cruelty.
November 29, 2024 at 1:55 AM
We sat at tables of abundance while others stood in line for food. In the rain. And the slow build of contradiction in these, the last days of empire, told us it could not continue. Blessing to all who are setting a welcome table as we work for a righteous path beyond this cruelty.