Ann M. Ishimaru

A Coriolis graphic promoting a book tour for the editors of Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change, Decoteau J. Irby and Ann M. Ishimaru. The image features photos of the two smiling editors and a list of seven book tour dates from October 12th to January 26th, in cities including Milwaukee, Tacoma, Wye Mills, Chicago, and Phoenix. The Coriolis logo is at the top.

Join Dr. Decoteau Irby and Dr. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social for critical conversations on sustaining justice-focused educational change in the face of subtle resistance and the current anti-DEI backlash. #DoingTheWork #EquityLeadership
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Tell me you’re a Portlander without telling me. #froglove

Looking forward to being in conversation about the book w/peeps near and far!

A celebratory graphic for the publication day of the book Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change, edited by Decoteau J. Irby and Ann M. Ishimaru. The image has a vibrant purple, pink, and blue background. Two copies of the book are shown: one standing upright and one lying flat beneath it. The book cover features a vibrant orange and blue sky with white clouds. Below the book images, a purple and pink banner reads, "HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY!"

Happy publication day to Professors Decoteau Irby and @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social! Their book, "Doing the Work of Equity Leadership for Justice and Systems Change," by @tcpress.bsky.social, is now available.

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Thank you! That. 👆(a Japanese American whose family was incarcerated). It happens all.the.time.tho.

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Peach cobbler fresh out of the oven

My kid: What’s peach cobbler?
Me: (gasp in Georgia-childhood-mom-failure-horror, frantically make some)

Biscuits aren’t as good as I’ve had or remember in GA but the WA peaches are outstanding!
#WAPeach

Opinion | When Universities Become Informants A practice from the McCarthy era makes an ugly return.

www.chronicle.com/article/when...

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What’s keeping me going today:

MS principal: No backpacks btwn classes - leave them in locker & carry stuff to class.

Kids: Ok we’ll use totes instead.

Principal: No totes either.

Kids: Fine, we’ll use: garbage bags, Xbox boxes, Home Depot buckets, garbage cans, IKEA bags! 😂🤣😜

UPDATE: Organizers created a letter for education scholars, practitioners, and students to sign to stand up to Harvard Ed Publishing about their censorship of Palestine. Here's the article about it and next is a link to read, sign & share the letter: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Today #ICE and Border Patrol descended on the plaza of the Japanese American Nat'l Museum. The very spot where Japanese Americans, including my family, were rounded up and sent to concentration camps with no due process in 1942.

The community wasn't having it. Read JANM's statement bit.ly/4oDsjng

Thousands Ask Harvard Not to ‘Give in’ and Pay Fine to Trump

“The most powerful, well-heeled institutions of higher education in this country are cutting deals with the Trump administration that undermine the future of higher education.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#DefendHigherEd

This thoughtful review by @shannapeeples.bsky.social provides a vital reminder of the hope we must recapture -- hope we felt while learning about these wonderful Schools of Opportunity.
@prof-ishimaru.bsky.social @katesomerville.bsky.social
@michellevalladares.bsky.social @wileyke.bsky.social ‪‪

I love you Seattle. #abolishice #nokings

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

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Shocked & proud that my parents are out protesting #NoKings today too! Hard to convey how surprising that is - they have never even been close to a protest - it’s a sign of what we’ve come to that they are out on the streets as well!

Hundreds of thousands already have showed up what may be shaping up the biggest ever protest in the history of our United States. Couldn’t be more perfect and timely for our democracy. Starting a new thread wheee I share photos and videos bc they are giving me life. #NoKings

Cardboard sign that says “I pee on fascists” with a smudgy dog print at the bottom

Mochi the Dog (our friends’) signed his own sign!
#NoKings #DogKnowsBest

The cover spread from a one page zine printout. The left (back cover) features images of a scale and gavel, with notes on First Amendment and filming rights, and the advice to “shut the fuck up.” On the right is the cover, a megaphone with the title text “PROTEST SAFELY.” Behind it are faceless protestors. The subtitle notes, “A brief collection of tips from around the internet.”

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is an illustration of a protestor with the title “What to Wear,” including a helmet, goggles, ear plugs, gloves, a mask, a backpack, and layers/long sleeves/pants. Each have additional notes explaining their use. On the right is “What to Bring,” featuring illustrations of a backpack, money, water bottles, a mask, a granola bar and bag of trail mix, a first aid kit, folded shirt and pants, and an ID, with “DIY Defense” listed underneath it showing one protestor using a luggage case, one holding a trash can lid, and one using an open umbrella as a shield.

A spread from one page zine printout. On the left is “Protect Your Identity,” advising to cover up identifying features, avoiding photography of protesters, deactivating biometric phone-unlocking tools, and writing emergency contact and counsel numbers on your arm. On the right is “Be Like Water,” the motto of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, and the text “BEWARE THE BAIT” with images of a palette of bricks and a masked man holding a crowbar toward a protestor with a sign, “Psst, free crowbar?” encouraging the reader not to engage with traps and undercover agents.

A spread from one page zine printout featuring the hazards of protest opposition, including tear gas, rubber bullets, and LRAD sound cannons and flash bangs. Caution tape images accompany the text explaining the dangers of each, how to flush out eyes that have been maced/etc, and how to extinguish a gas canister with a traffic cone.

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️

toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

Today, more than 12,000 Harvard alumni asked a federal judge to accept an amicus brief urging the court to shield their alma mater from what they described as an “existential threat” posed by the Trump administration’s freeze of nearly $3 billion in federal research funding.

Let’s go! New book with long-time collaborator Decoteau Irby coming out soon - #DoingTheWork feels more pressing than ever.

Exactly what I was thinking.

This Is How a Democracy Dies—One University at a Time During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump didn’t exactly hide what he was planning. He said he’d take control of higher education—and in the 100+ days since his second inauguration, he’s been …

"Universities are bureaucratic messes sometimes and struggle to provide equitable access. But they were our messes—governed by scholars, accountable to professional standards, not political agendas. It was what made the university worth defending."
@nelsonlflores.bsky.social
www.bit.ly/4kg9yU3

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“The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous."
Whew #AndorSeason2 delivers right on time

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

The presidents of 200 US colleges declare:

"As leaders of America’s colleges, universities, and scholarly societies, we speak with one voice against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education."

Good!

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

COLUMN: Trump is bullying, blackmailing and threatening colleges, and they are just beginning to fight back Patricia McGuire has always been an outspoken advocate for her students at Trinity Washington University, a small, Catholic institution that serves largely Black and Hispanic women, just a few miles from the White House. She’s also criticized what she calls “the Trump administration’s wholesale assault on freedom of speech and human rights.” In her 36 years as president, though, McGuire told me, she has never felt so isolated, a lonely voice challenging an agenda she believes “demands a vigorous and loud response from all of higher education. “ It got a little bit louder this week, after Harvard University President Alan Garber…

COLUMN: Trump is bullying, blackmailing and threatening colleges, and they are just beginning to fight back

Patricia McGuire has always been an outspoken advocate for her students at Trinity Washington University, a small, Catholic institution that serves largely Black and Hispanic women, just a…

cover of report titled "Supporting Families and Communities in Children's Academic Thriving and Well-Being in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic"

A new series of reports commissioned by the National Academy of Education proposes ways to address educational inequities associated with the pandemic. @prof-ishimaru.bsky.social bit.ly/3E9ZSLF

This makes so much sense - youth should have a say in the folks calling the shots in their education!

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.