Brandon Shimoda

There is no way to properly express how beautiful this book is in person:

My friend Mohammed and his community in a displacement camp in Gaza are in need of water. If you're interested in donating, please DM me. I and many other people have purchased trucks of water, but any amount, no matter how small, helps and is appreciated.

Gaza Ramadan Fundraiser As Ramadan comes along, Palestinians in Gaza will struggle to find food with which to break their fast. The entire population is displaced with many living in tents that offer little shelter. So much ...

My friend Mohammed in Gaza send me this fundraiser for Ramadan. Please consider donating. Any amount is appreciated:

chuffed.org/project/1679...

The Hiroshima Library—an itinerant reading room of 200+ books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—is coming this spring to Seay Music Library at Colorado College. I'm seeking/accepting donations of books, magazines, etc. no matter their condition. Message me if you're interested.

Gaza Ramadan Fundraiser As Ramadan comes along, Palestinians in Gaza will struggle to find food with which to break their fast. The entire population is displaced with many living in tents that offer little shelter. So much ...

My friend Mohammed in Gaza send me this fundraiser for Ramadan. Please consider donating. Any amount is appreciated:

chuffed.org/project/1679...

from @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social's 'Poetry Begins at STOP: Etel Adnan & Arabic' (April 2025), which I return to over & over @proteanmag.com shorturl.at/SYDkx

Screenshot of sameerproject on IG Ramadan and Community: A Guide for Giving Back (P.S. you don’t have to be Muslim to participate) Zakat eligible Sameer Project x translating Falasteen

Can 20 people join us today in donating to the Sameer Project for Ramadan? $8 provides a meal for a family, and $32 can pay for groceries. You can also donate more to fund a water truck or a water desalination plant.

Pass this on, please.

See their IG for details: www.instagram.com/p/DUq5PoSjkK0

Mary Turfah, I’m Not Done with You @thebaffler.com: t.ly/Y8ygs

I’m Not Done With You | Mary Turfah You cannot harm a corpse, though you can use it to harm others.

“Israel’s approach to the Palestinian body emerges from a cross between the utilitarian logic of how death becomes life—here not between individual bodies but through them, for the nation—and the retrofitted justification to kill, in life’s name.”

I’m Not Done With You | Mary Turfah You cannot harm a corpse, though you can use it to harm others.

The capitalist world order that enables, condones, justifies, and profits from everything described here needs to be destroyed. thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Shelter, Goods & Activities x The Sameer Project The inititaive was originally formed to secure, purchase, and distribute tents in Southern Gaza but in January 2026, the campaign was rebranded to "Shelter, Goods & Activities" to cover not only tents...

Seeing from Sameer Project that tents are breaking down. We are so angry that this is the ask since people should not have to continue to be displaced… but please pitch in so that they can replace tents that have torn and disintegrated after 2+ years.

chuffed.org/project/1132...

paying debt to nature The Hiroshima Library is an itinerant, sometimes spontaneous reading room/collection of books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and their ongoing afterlives, as well as the...

To learn more about the Hiroshima Library, visit: /t.ly/bjDFp

The Hiroshima Library—an itinerant reading room of 200+ books on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—is coming this spring to Seay Music Library at Colorado College. I'm seeking/accepting donations of books, magazines, etc. no matter their condition. Message me if you're interested.

Concentration Camps USA, Part 1 on loving ICE and preserving a concentration camp / on stealing history and erasing memory

What do these two things have in common?

1. Establishing a Japanese American concentration camp as a National Historic Site.

2. Thanking ICE for "protecting the homeland."

The first part of my long-winded answer is here: t.ly/Ah55W

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

Trump Has Made ICE the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the Country With Congress-approved funding, ICE detention is expected to triple in size, mirroring the scale of Japanese internment.

For @truthout.org I wrote an analysis of the mass deportation boom during 2025. Amid all the spectacle, the passage of the funding bill in July was an ominous milestone in the history of U.S. immigration policy and the Trump administration's aspiring fascism.
truthout.org/articles/tru...

Since I wrote this last week, two more people have died in ICE custody: Heber Sanchaz Domínguez and Victor Manuel Diaz. That’s at least 6 people dead in ICE camps so far in 2026, and it’s only mid-January.

The Afterlife of Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Poet Brandon Shimoda explores the ongoing legacies of the US government’s mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during World War II.

"Poetry seems central to how we redress these kinds of wounds. The poetry needs to happen for anything to be redressed or anything to be healed." –Brandon Shimoda on the afterlife of Japanese American wartime incarceration

My friend Mohammed and his community in a displacement camp in Gaza are in need of water. If you're interested in donating, please DM me. I and many other people have purchased trucks of water, but any amount, no matter how small, helps and is appreciated.

Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

Sameer Project update about their Refaat Alareer camp: “We have nearly 500 students in our Hasan School on the grounds of the Refaat Alareer Camp…We recently expanded to accommodate additional students from the surrounding areas to offer quality education and an approved curriculum.”

I'm really interested in the Kibei experience in post-war Japan and the Ryukyus. If anybody has any readings or oral histories to share, I'd be interested!

Please help @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social & @thellpsx.bsky.social, in memory of Alice Wong, with eSims for Gaza!
If you are feeling helpless, this is one way to help keep lines of communication open!
In memory of Alice! 💖
If you can't help please share!