I do post Nikkei content, too, after all.

Atsuko Okatsuka is a Japanese-Taiwanese comedian who lived as an undocumented child in California until the age of 7. You can learn more about her childhood here.

Latino and Black communities were some of the few places in LA that allowed Nikkei folks to resettle after WWII internment. These communities became convenient places for newer Japanese immigrants to live.

When I was growing up, Hispanic and Japanese folks could be found working side-by-side in farming, bakeries, auto repair, landscaping and restaurants.

There is no Japanese American history in Los Angeles without other POC, especially other immigrants.

Huge thanks to Nellita's Craft for facilitating and for supplies.

(okay follow up to me talking about my baachan on anarchblr’s post and also my “time is a flat circle” post)

Time is a flat circle again and my grandma turned 91 and I’m sewing her a kimono (on a machine that’s only a little younger than her) to wear at a festival to honor our ancestors this week.

Time is a flat circle and my college degree lands me a job doing mostly what my grandma and great grandma did except this time English is the dominant language.

Time is a flat circle and FDR and the American people called them “concentration camps” and the only way forcibly incarcerated Japanese people could get recognition for what happened is when they called them the (kinder) term “internment camps” and we are watching that history be erased again.

Time is a flat circle again and we can’t let my baachan leave the country because we’re not sure we can come back. Again.