There are still a few spaces in my intensive summer book workshop, Crafting Your Scholarly Book. (And I've extended my steepest early-bird discount through May 1st.) The live meetings will be in the evening in the US and in the morning in East Asia. tiliaeditorial.com/crafting-your-scholarly-book
To help me get my hands away from phones and screens, I have started a new hobby– sashiko (刺し子). One can make elaborate patterns or visibly mend clothing with "little stab" running stitches. Here are my first attempts at a pattern, a lovely chrysanthemum, and patching a hole in some pants.
I do not know you, but I will read your academic monograph :) Have a book party!
Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors
may this define her for the rest of her life.
she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired.
girl, bye.
Students in the inaugural class of an Ainu craft school in Hokkaido are set to graduate soon, after completing their training to acquire skills of the Indigenous ethnic group. 👉 ebx.sh/YoC3vf
Jingyi Li (Occidental College), Fumiko Kobayashi (Hōsei University), and Laura Moretti (University of Cambridge) are the other scholars on my panel. #AAS2026
For attendees of #AAS2026 – are you free this Saturday morning at 10:30? If so, please check out my panel: "Paper Publics: Mediums and Social Transitions in Popular Prints of Early Modern Japan. I will be presenting my paper on the ukiyo-e artist Hishikawa Moronobu.
An image with the logo for the Association for Asian Studies 2026 Conference Meeting in Vancouver. Above the image is written "I'm Presenting."
I participated in Ellen Tilton-Cantrell's book workshop last summer. Her workshop helped me focus on making meaningful changes to my book project. I was able to take a breath and tarry with the big issues in my manuscript in a supportive space. I highly recommend her workshop!
Excerpt of a Japanese painting in light colors with a beige background showing a hawk looking to the left. To its left is a sprig of pink flowers, and to its right the truck of a pine tree with pine needles surrounding it.
JPP is pleased to announce the launch of A World of Edo Art. This web portal, spearheaded Linda Hoaglund (director, Edo Avant Garde), brings together 200+ captivating Edo-period (1603–1868) artworks related to animals and nature from around the world. edoart.japanpastandpresent.org
February 19, 2026 INSTRUCTIONS TO ALL PERSONS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY As survivors and descendants of the mass removals, detention, deportation, and family separation targeting our community during WWII, we refuse to stand by idly while our friends and neighbors are violently disappeared, forcibly removed, mass incarcerated, and separated from family members. We decry the murders of community members and at least 37 people in ICE custody and enforcement in 2025. We reject false narratives that state violence is "unavoidable," a "justifiable military action," necessary for "national security"—the same arguments used as they forced our parents, grandparents, aunties, and uncles into U.S. concentration camps in 1942. On this Day of Remembrance, we call on Japanese Americans and all people who believe in "Never Again" to demand justice for those we have lost—on the streets and hidden away in ICE detention centers. To break this cycle of state violence. To rise up and resist, together. We bravely commit to being the allies our familes needed during WWII. STOP REPEATING HISTORY. #TsuruForSolidarity #FreeFamilies #FreeThemAll
84 years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering the removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans, about two-thirds of whom were US citizens. The Day of Remembrance this year comes as we see DHS buying land and warehouses for more camps now.
Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in hearing room to stand and raise hands if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them doe. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize. She responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Really good video breakdown of the shooting of Renee Good illustrating that yes, this was cold blooded murder by an ICE agent.
Stopped by the campus bookstore to look for an A4 picture frame. Left with four used books, each priced at 99 cents. I have no regrets.📖
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Flyer with discount code DELPA30 for 30% off when you order my book "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan."
My 2023 book is coming out in paperback in Sept. Use discount code DELPA30 for 30% off when you order from the publisher's website. Title: Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan. Here's the flyer.
#AppliedLinguistics #Japanese #L2 #sociolinguistics #SLA
the regressiveness of the Trump's big bill, in one image
The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.
Join those of us marching in the "No Kings" Protest tomorrow! Find out where your closest march is↓https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=50501
Plaskett to Bessent: "Excuse me. Let me get something straight with you. I've seen you interrupt everyone. When you come to someone's house, you respect their rules. And in this house, we don't interrupt individuals. And you're not going to interrupt my time."
Rep. Eric. Sorensen on Harvey Milk: "He stood up for the same people who are being targeted, persecuted, and vilified by this administration today ... picking and choosing who deserves that thanks -- it's not just wrong, it's un-American."
I am so excited to see "The Blob"! I grew up close to The Colonial, where they filmed this masterpiece. Every few years they had a "save the Colonial"-type of event.
Wouldn't it be nice if those in the US government who displayed apathy for voters were shamed into resigning? Of course, Etō's resignation has had no material effect on the price of rice. unseen-japan.com/japan-agricu...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Ghoulish. She won't even agree to help a worried mother know whether her son is even alive.
Andry has been imprisoned without trial for 60 days, held incommunicado by the Salvadoran government as part of a deal where we handed Bukele a metaphorical briefcase of cash to detain hundreds of people!
