Tamiko Nimura

Seattle, come celebrate the release of Adrian De Leon's new book, BALIKBAYAN: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland. Joined by Moon-Ho Jung, De Leon will discuss what it means to go back home when “home” is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing.

📅Saturday, March 7 at 12 pm
📍Mam's Books

Thank you so much!

Book cover of A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE and excerpt from the Publishers Weekly starred review.

Grateful for a starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE!

Trump administration tries to deprive poor Minnesotans of health care because brave Minnesotans stood up to them.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Thank you!

Photo of taiko performers next to a sign that reads "Not OK in 1942, not OK now"

Photo of a Japanese American elder speaking into a microphone

Another DOR event at the NW ICE Processing Center today. Big turnout despite freezing rain.

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

Tamiko Nimura reflects on her family’s history of incarceration in the U.S. during WWII The incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II forever altered life for Japanese Americans and their families.

Thanks to the NW Asian Weekly for this conversation: nwasianweekly.com/2026/02/tami...

Message for today's commemoration of Day of Remembrance from our compas at Tsuru for Solidarity network

Libraries Are for Everyone: Invest in Libraries New York City's public libraries offer vital support to all, regardless of background, income, birthplace, or beliefs.

This funding increase to 0.5% is a core demand of NYC PLAN - one which has been amplified by our library systems to help ensure that every branch has the staffing and resources to provide robust services to their communities.

Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve

investinlibraries.org

Yes, can we please change the clichéd language we use to describe books and authors?

The denial of tenure was never about scholarship. It was a retaliatory move from @texastechlib.bsky.social to send a chilling message: dissent that threatens institutional power will be punished. Shame on Ron Hendrick, Brendon Creighton, Lawrence Schovanec turned tenure into a political tool!

solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

It's at over a million in the 2 hours since I skeeted this.

CBS again bent the knee to Trump and blocked Stephen Colbert from hosting Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.

*rushes to read*

Today at 5PM, community members will gather to express our outrage at the Trump National Parks Department's erasure of OUR history and OUR flag from OUR park!

Wear a mask! Ideally a well fitted respirator like an N95.

Covid is not over. The government pushed a “back to normal” agenda for the economy, not because it was safe.

They told us “only the vulnerable” needed to worry, but covid is a multi system vascular virus that is dangerous to everyone.

Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News

They have now removed the Pride flag from the Stonewall Inn.

Erasure. Just like the Nazis.

gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...

Shot from the stands of the Bad Bunny halftime show.

What a moment.

Me holding copy of the book

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

Take the money from your cancelled WaPo subscriptions and put it here instead: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

When the Headlines Change but the Violence Doesn’t “This is not a cruel novelty project. It’s infrastructure, designed for permanence and expansion.”

"They are building a massive concentration camp apparatus, and they will not abandon the objective of filling those camps."

Always essential @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on the situation and how to fight it.

organizingmythoughts.org/when-the-hea...

Flyer for Day of Remembrance through Stories, Art, Literature and Advocacy. Details at https://PuyallupValleyJACL.org

I’m doing a community preview of my memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE on 2/21, 10-12 at the WA state fairgrounds in Puyallup. Honored to be a featured speaker at this event organized by Puyallup Valley JACL.

The great Chester Himes and Griot, his beloved blue point Siamese, named "after the magicians in the courts of West African kings." Himes also said that if he stayed away too long, Griot would wreck his studio and chew up his books. #Caturday

Agreed. In some ways it’s tough because there are so many writers there! But in other ways, not. I’m on MailPoet.

So many writers are on this platform. I understand that. I’m on MailPoet. Join me?

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.

Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.