Category: Patriarchy
IMPORTANT NEW BOOK: Sanitized Sex (Sex Work & the Occupation of Japan)
In Order to Do Justice
Militarized Mama Amerasia – an International Women’s Day Reflection
OUT NOW! New Book by Walter Hamilton!
The problem is ….. #2
In the present times, the nation-state and its corporate-military structures hold life into place with discourses. As humans, we respond to it. When we live in resistance to certain rules of language, concepts and positions in relation to identity and place and self and community, we find out that assimilating … Continue Reading The problem is ….. #2
Land, Blood, Humanity: Amerasian Contexts
Academy Awards, Racism and Sayonara: Creating the White Pacific
Vimeo & Article: China in Africa – (Post)Colonial Relations as Transcontinental Racism and Sexism
Jet Magazine: Black Men and Japanese Women – Post WWII
Documentary: Left By The Ship
Colonial Theory: Race & Gender Hierarchy = Hypodescent
Hypodescent: The ordering of people along a hierarchy of color, is prevalent in almost every society today, solidified by nation-state structures of power and form. In the ordering of color, the term for the ordering of people from the top that is lightest in color (white), and gradually lower to … Continue Reading Colonial Theory: Race & Gender Hierarchy = Hypodescent
Transpacific Sexism and Racism: The U.S. Amerasian Act of 1982 and 1987
Article: U.S. military and East Asian governments work together for Sexploitation of Women
In Memorium: My Mother − Kiyoko Kakinami Cloyd Nov. 2, 1929 (?)- Sept. 17, 2011
Song & Occupation Video: Quintessential Postwar Japan’s Women’s song: 星の流れに Hoshi no Nagare Ni
Photo Advertisement in Japan causing Stir among Activists
This is an ad in a Japanese corporate publication that came out this year. It shows Douglas MacArthur, the so-called “architect of the Occupation of Japan and Korea” after both the Second World War. The ad says: “Let us create a good country.”