Hana Maruyama

It’s wild that there are people who are like “I’m scared my professor is anti-fascist”

I was raised on the Washington post. It's horrible seeing how far it has fallen... I wrote in weeks ago to tell them off for giving RFK a platform for his misinformation but apparently they take pride in that now.

If this ceasefire happens - and I hope it does - Western media will talk about 'peace'. This will be inaccurate. What they will mean is 'quiet', a reversion to the background level of violence that Palestinians have faced for decades. Peace can only come with the end of the occupation and apartheid.

Morale is great. 😭

On top of that, we're now not allowed to pay for meals at "primarily" faculty and staff events--and "staff" includes graduate students which is several levels of messed up. So that speaker you wanted grad students to network with? Nope, you can't feed them all lunch.

Ah the joys of being treated like you're trying to rob the university after going out of your way to spend less (took an awful red eye out of a way less convenient airport & for my efforts, I got $5 for breakfast so I wouldn't fall asleep at the wheel during the drive home)

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When I spoke to my students about the potential dangers of AI, they were shocked to learn about cases like this.

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Ooh yes, always enjoy (e-)meeting other descendants! Have you been to the Heart Mountain pilgrimages @marinaomi.bsky.social?

I think many of them knew it was being used, had in fact witnessed and learned from Indigenous land use as they built lives for themselves in those regions (settler origin myths even recognize this), they just used the notion to justify the theft. We can't let them off the hook that easily.

Thanks, I'll take a look at those!

Oh yeah the little house books are very deeply embedded in that colonial rhetoric, I'm not surprised they used that logic

At the very least it should be "Japanese American internment" and you should have to justify why you are using that term against the wishes of the community.

2) internment is inaccurate, see @denshoproject.bsky.social terminology & @jacl-national.bsky.social power of words for why. If you're not aware of this yet, I'm not sure you should be mentoring/teaching students on the topic 3) it's unclear if they're discussing Japanese Americans or Japanese POWs.

Reading yet another graduate thesis and wishing yet again that other Asian Americanists would not let their graduate students get away with calling Japanese American incarceration "Japanese internment" in this day & age. 1) it lets the US completely off the hook.

Trump is not mentioned as much as I would have thought but I suppose that's just a given for Washingtonians at this point 🫣

Disgusting. May I recommend instead @overhearddistrict's Instagram round up of everything Washingtonians are actually scared of? It's a much more informative and a better use of one's time. DC rats figure high on multiple lists.

Also @jimmyskuya.bsky.social @kaylenjoi.bsky.social @sammaj.bsky.social thanks in advance!

@napaaqtuk.bsky.social @redped.bsky.social @aprilanson.bsky.social @brunomarzipan.bsky.social @kaseyrk.bsky.social thinking you may have leads?

#NAIS folks, looking for recs on articles/books on how the notion that the land wasn't being used was weaponized to force Indigenous people to give up more of their land. Allotment is one example (or a million) but it's all over the place really & I'd love to see how others are thinking about it

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Meanwhile First Nations & Mexican Indigenous nations don't have the ability to practice lifeways or ceremonies or work across the border because of a line drawn across their homelands. So yeah, I do think leaning on the word "native" is a weird flex when talking about the "invasion" of immigrants.

He could have easily said "Americans" or "citizens" instead of "Native population" but didn't. So what does taking up the rhetoric of "Native population" allow him to express/accomplish that those don't? It gives him standing bc he was born within our borders.

@ehphd.bsky.social a possible "text" for your Prince syllabus?

...as you point out. That's claiming an informal "right" to speak for all Americans bc he's the "native population" (even if not all citizens are born here), it's more a rhetorical claim than a legal one. Edlie Wong also has a great chapter on how white Americans did this to oppose Asian immigration

In terms of legal rights, sure (though Native Americans are also members of sovereign nations & have treaty protected rights). That's not what he's talking about. He's saying he, as a native-born citizen who isn't a lawmaker, should get to say if someone else belongs here regardless of policy/law...

Yes but some settlers weaponize the word "native" to claim belonging while also erasing Indigenous presence, which is essentially what they are doing by policing immigration this way. There's a good section on this in Erika Lee's book America for Americans.

Woah 😳😵‍💫