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Another printmaker, critical race theorist, intersectional feminist, organic gardener, found object instrument maker, metalsmith for peace. marimatsuda.art
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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”

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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.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Recycling signs from 2016, headed to Patsy Mink Statue.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

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!

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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.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

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)

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

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.

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

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.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

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!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Hawaiians still here, as far as the eye can see. (Yesterday, march to the palace to show there is still no consent to occupation.)

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Applies to visual artists as well. The challenge is doing this in visual language.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

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!

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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.

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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.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Recipe for cranberry relish, add brown sugar, cinnamon, then pulse in cuisinart.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, that guy, the one who tried to get us all killed.

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For anyone looking for a graphic novel to assign in a course, you may request an examination copy of *Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741*, by David Lester, Paul Buhle, and myself, through the link below. penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/book/?isbn=9...

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