Category: Social Justice
As-I-Am: PODCAST October 2015 is up!
Podcast: “Violence and Memory” — My Discussion at As(I)Am project
2014 – VIDEO: Korean Hapa Tour – Homelands, New Lands, Healing
Hiroshima Freedom
GENERATION NEXUS – Reflections
Pinayist –Psychology of Discrimination against Filippino/a Amerasians
The contours of colonialism and cultural identity, along with socio-economic class and discrimination, create the uneven and violent relations within nations. Citizenship is only a paper-worked body-armor when it lives everyday in social relations anywhere.
He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the present, controls the past.
# Permanent link to Quote by George Orwell
Blackanese Raptivist: Aisha Fukushima
Hint: Patterns – Legacies – Self
We are both governed and we govern. We govern ourselves, to some extent. We are also governed, in some extent. When we don’t know histories, and the history of our own ancestries and legacies, we are ignorant, then of certain patterns and therefore reasons and connections. We are connected.
Within Every Woman . . . There is a Story: COMFORT WOMEN OF WWII–commentary
Within Every Woman . . . . . There is a Story. Yes. This is a very important film. I am glad that it is made.
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
Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize Winner and the Creation of an Amerasian Identity Category
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) is remembered for her many international literary prizes as well as her activism.