@marimatsuda.bsky.social

Another printmaker, critical race theorist, intersectional feminist, organic gardener, found object instrument maker, metalsmith for peace. marimatsuda.art

873 Followers 521 Following 87 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 months ago
Hand written sign “Demilitarize Deoccupy Okinawa and Hawai’i” with taped on addition “and Venezuela” Line of protesters with signs.

Honolulu in the streets for Venezuela.

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2 months ago

A young friend just recommended it to me.

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3 months ago
Woman artist stands smiling before two large black and white prints of protesters and fishermen.

So proud that my work is on the wall of my favorite museum, declaring that good things happen when people act in solidarity. honolulumuseum.org/mari-matsuda...

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3 months ago
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The Resistance Revival Chorus has a message for Home Depot: We don't want deportations at The Home Depot parking lots! #WeAintBuyingIt want to organize your own carols?!? Heres lyrics: bit.ly/holidaycarol...

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4 months ago

Thanks for the push, just emailed my uni

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5 months ago

Love the celebration of honest labor.

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5 months ago

“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."
— Assata Shakur
(July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)

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6 months ago
People with protest signs (“tidal flats not airports!”) in Korean and English, peace flag, woman in bird costume (me) kneels in front. Diamondhead/Leahi in background to show we are in the destroyed-for-tourism former wetlands of Waikiki.

Solidarity action for marchers in Gunsan, Korea protesting destruction of tidal flats where the Sura birds live - to build yet another US military serving airport. Birds not bombs! Sura, aka Kuaka, long distance record-holding migratory champ, beloved in Polynesia, not just Korea.

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7 months ago

Happy to support this project. Every kid should know Benjamin Lay.

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7 months ago

Thank you for writing this lovely piece. I still, tentatively, believe it was not for nothing, because they left us an obligation to fight and that is something.

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8 months ago

I was weeping by the end…

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8 months ago

Super Very!

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8 months ago

Thank you!

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8 months ago

Someone told me bt can hurt bees. Is this true?

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8 months ago

For Asian America the line between citizen and foreigner has never meant safety. Here is my etching from my grandmother’s painting of Heart Mountain, where she was imprisoned with her US citizen sons. My father volunteered for combat duty from behind barbed wire.

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9 months ago

No, it fell out of their pocket when they dropped their pants to… whatever. Same reason you find coins, right?

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9 months ago

Is 2 a harmonica?

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10 months ago
Two women artists stand smiling in front of charcoal drawings of strikers, workers, protesters.

Happy May Day! To go with all of todayʻs union actions, here is when the amazing artist Favianna Rodrigues visited my drawings of 1940s-70s struggles. (Last week to see these at Native Books/Arts and Letters)

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10 months ago
Woman singing into bullhorn, street lined with picketers, old and young. Pickets line the street, red t shirts and flags of Unite Here. Hawaiian flag also visible. Under green trees and bright blue sky.

Union power as far as you can see outside the Honolulu federal building. You will have to imagine the sound of hundreds singing Solidarity Forever to go with these pics.

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10 months ago

Hi, maybe ask a botanist if they are samara (seeds with wings) Charms to make trees do well?

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10 months ago
Two Kanaka singers with flowering Gold Tree in background.

What was on the playlist at your university’s action today? Bet you can’t top The Times They Are A Changin followed by Kaulana Nā Pua

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11 months ago
All ages and colors of folks with signs line the sidewalk, under a bright blue sky. Group in front of palm trees with signs opposing fascism, racism, &c, list of evils.

Aloha from the resistance, Honolulu.

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11 months ago

Thanks, Mary, for pushing all of us to fight back. Humanities = human. Everything we do to survive and find love and know ourselves. Our beating hearts. Plus, once I was a debt-burdened asst prof who really needed those tiny grants.

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11 months ago

Your mother and her parents are watching from somewhere and they are soooo proud. A 3 generation legacy of holding Harvard to the highest standards.

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11 months ago

A waiting room for a pediatrician, with your kid. My family’s pediatrician in DC told me there were parents she never saw, only the nanny. I was shocked. It seems so basic to parenting.

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11 months ago
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For Labor, Caution Is Fatal The riskiest course is to stay the course.

The guy I count on for historically-informed strategy says it’s time to poke the bear. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

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11 months ago

Qualitative info as well: my mom was a Headstart trainer. Headstart moms got help with getting GEDs, going on to college, pulling whole families out of poverty.Years later women still tell me “your mom made me register at HCC (local community college)”

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11 months ago

I converted an old guitar into a dobro by adding a resonator and a thrift shop tray for a cover.

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11 months ago

Thank you for knowing and remembering.

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11 months ago

Camp Shelby - Mr. Finch remembered fondly here!

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