rmagosaki.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Watch/Listen to the launch @haymarketbooks.org—music by Patrick Shiroishi, greeting by Mitsuye Yamada, poems by Anne Watanabe, Michael Prior, Carolyn Nakagawa, Cath Goulding, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Emily Mitamura, Mike Ishii, Paulette "Tkl' Un Yeik" Moreno, statement by Tsuru for Solidarity: t.ly/X6ItQ

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several trusted senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

Thank you @haymarketbooks.org for this amazing volume of Japanese American WWII descendant poetry. I hope it finds readers everywhere. Congratulations to its editors @brandonshimoda.bsky.social and Brynn Saito on this achievement. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2536-t...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

“Undoubtedly, some people will find it difficult to understand why a supremacy of which we have heard so much, a supremacy which claims to be based upon congenital superiority, should require such drastic methods of protection.” James Weldon Johnson, “Anglo-Saxon in Mississippi”

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

our amazing students at Chapman University! www.thepanthernewspaper.org/news/student...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

If you live in the Boulder-Denver area and are free at 4pm on Wed, April 2, please come here one of the best thinkers/writers on Islamophobia in the US, which is a topic of urgency especially now @cubouldercha.bsky.social @colorado.edu www.colorado.edu/cha/CoxSpeak...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Assistant Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries, Tenure Track, Fall 2025 Chapman University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI548/a...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Seems like a good time to re-up my post from last October on the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and #SCOTUS: www.stevevladeck.com/p/103-alien-...

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

March is a miserable month. History can help. New post up on Sweetness & Ruin newsletter:

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

meanwhile, my copy of this new anthology of translated Japanese fiction

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

link: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53321 congrats @yangonzalez.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Join us at Elliott Bay Books on April 10 for the Seattle launch of "The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration." I will moderate w editors Brynn Saito & Brandon Shimoda & readings from poets Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Sharon Hashimoto, Tamiko Nimura, and Troy Osaki. 1/2

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

happy to be teaching this book in a graphic novels course @frankabe.bsky.social @tamikonimura.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

2 things can be true at the same time: 1. America’s universities are under attack & it is a crisis 2. OMG Harvard is NOT “the soul of higher education” & its crises pale in comparison—“pale” feels too weak a word— to what state, regional, & community colleges—ie the actual soul of US higher ed—face

submitted 32 days ago • 18 comments

This Day of Remembrance at Chiyo's Garden in Seattle felt different from all those previous. At the first DOR we created here in 1978, we were 2,000 Nikkei strong in remembering the camps and standing for redress with our families. 1/

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Today Leonard Peltier has finally been released from prison—though under house arrest. Our friend Stevie Van Zandt was there with him today, standing in solidarity as he always has. Seeing this photo of Leonard & Stevie is medicine. #FreeLeonardPeltier #Justice

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

Five years ago, I asked Hilton Obenzinger, author of "American Palestine," to contribute to a series marking the sesquicentennial of Twain's "Innocents Abroad." He pitched a personal essay about how his book was inspired by death threats from Zionists. One of the best things I've ever edited. 1/

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

This cut will DEVASTATE the quality of our healthcare, increase cost for care, and stifle future improvement in care. Indirect cost-sharing is necessary for medical centers and universities to conduct research. 1/5 #science #medicine #highered www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

This white mother thought they wouldn’t come for her child, despite mass incarceration based on a parent’s immigration status, ethnicity, and the lifestyle of families. She was wrong. Coming July 8, 2025. Preorders can be made now @ www.amazon.com/Together-Man... or bookshop.org/p/books/toge...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

New article by Issay Matsumoto in American Quarterly: "Transpacific Muumuus and the Rise of Japanese Neocolonial Tourism in Hawai‘i" muse.jhu.edu/article/945169

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Columbia Univ historian Mae Ngai: fight over birthright citizenship is part of long history of restrictionist immigration policies in US. “What we’re seeing this week is shock and awe. It’s meant to terrorize,” she says. “We have to fight on all levels.” www.democracynow.org/2025/1/24/bi...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

"Trump’s executive order to curtail birthright citizenship is part of the long history of ‘alien citizenship’ in the US" by Mae Ngai If you're interested in the concept of "alien citizenship," read her ground-breaking book, Impossible Subjects. blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Trump: "Take America back [to 1897]." the year before SCOTUS maintained the protections of birthright citizenship in US v Wong Kim Ark. Wong continued to navigate challenges to his citizenship decades later, seen in this form. That this is a question today is such a disservice to his memory.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

If tomorrow we hear anyone invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as the basis for mass deportations now, know that Sen. Hirono and Rep. Omar are introducing legislation to repeal it. It's a step. Your organization can endorse the bill here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING NEWS: Leonard Peltier's life sentence has been commuted by outgoing President Joe Biden after spending nearly 50 years in prison. Stay connected to National Native News for the latest updates and analysis. https://www.nativenews.net/president-joe-biden-leonard-peltier/

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Taking Brynn Saito through the reading room at Elliott Bay Book Company to plan the April 10 Seattle launch of her forthcoming anthology, "THE GATE OF MEMORY: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration," edited by her and Brandon Shimoda @brandonshimoda.bsky.social.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 100 days ago • 9 comments

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Deadline is tomorrow for our graduate student conference "Entre lugares." CFP submission form below. Spread far and wide, and encourage your grads to submit. We'll give them a warm and supportive welcome at Yale, promise! Questions? Ask @anafblazquez.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so happy to officially share that The Dilemmas of Working Women (aka: プラナリア in Japanese) by Fumio Yamamoto, will be out in the UK in July and in NA in August of 2025. This is a very personal project for me, and I couldn't be more pleased at how it has turned out! www.amazon.com/Dilemmas-Wor...

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

Today!

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

chicago! join Interccect for Mapping Without A Compass, in memory of Fredric Jameson, with special host Jonathan Flatley! interccect.com/2024/12/13/m...

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

For a hot minute the Western press was obsessed with China's ghost cities, as if they were the foreign + exotic fallout from Beijing’s failed central planning. But the realities of the global economy have brought these specters back to haunt the West... 1/4 www.boundary2.org/2024/12/mich...

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

What a wonderful assignment!

submitted 113 days ago • 4 comments

Happy pub day, Brandon Shimoda! I look forward to reading this book, and so humbled to be even a tiny part of it.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

It was new information for him!

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

I started this on my other socials, but am bringing it here: B/w 7-1-24 & 6-30-25, my goal is to read 40 books that are not related to my research (race & Amer lit, Asian Am lit/culture, & trains). Each book I finish will be posted in its own comment below. I welcome suggestions & conversation!

submitted 136 days ago • 17 comments