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what about vienna sausages !!

a pika-pillar!!!

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE.

Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it.

Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

A person on a ladder holding up a thick black cloth and a person in cowboy boots looking up at them

Tori, in her graduation robe and lei, sitting, exhausted on a pillow on her thesis art project

Scores of graduation pix on my phone but these are the mems I want to remember ꒰⁠⑅⁠ᵕ⁠༚⁠ᵕ⁠꒱⁠˖⁠♡ love you @ntxoo-art.bsky.social so proud of you getting your masters in illo !!!!

Picture of a kimchi style bibimbap self heating rice kit on an Amtrak seat

Picture of the kit open, with bags of rice, water, and veggies as well as a heating pack in the plastic container

Picture of the dried rice and veggies in a heating tin, chopsticks that twist together to assemble, and the heating pad in the plastic container

Picture of the finished steamed bibimbap with gochujang, kimchi, sesame oil, and nori added

Made this self-cooking self-heating bibimbap kit on the amtrak, once again proving that Asians live in the future

Wow realized that I don't have a good sense of what neurodiverse is because I don't actually know what neurotypical looks like ¯⁠\⁠_⁠ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Photo of a plant with a long stem and multiple fronds of leaves growing out of a seemingly gravel pit next to a concrete slab and under an extension cord

Photo of a dank basement with no natural lighting and brick and concrete walls, in a narrow strip of dirt the plant is growing

if this plant can grow in the basement of my apartment building then you too can go on to fight thru another day!!! Ganbarimashou!!!

For Mother's Day - prints from the Free Our Mamas campaign to free incarcerated mothers! justseeds.org?s=People%27s...

Hand holding an 5x7 illustrated postcard of a yellow ghost whale holding a flag that says SURVIVE in red. The ghost whale is surrounded by jellyfish and kelp

Postcard in solidarity with all who came before us and all who will exist after 2/2 #bakekujira #digitalillustration

Hand holding a 5x7 illustrated postcard. A green and teal east asian style dragon holds a flag that says RESIST in red. It is surrounded by transparent cute ghosts

Postcard in solidarity with all who came before us and all who will exist after 1/2 #ryujin #digitalillustration

I desperately want to make a web comic about being an uchinanchu organizer living in the Southside of Chicago and how fighting the Quantum Facility and the US military base on Oura Bay are basically the same fight (with so many complicated differences)

A large foam poster on an easel. Image of a family hugging, with constellation imagery connecting the family. The text says 'the pretrial fairness act keeps families together'

Finally this piece by @ollycostello.bsky.social, also a part of the @justseeds.bsky.social series 💜

Banners hanging from an overhead walkway. Top banner says 'asian Americans against money bond, cash bail is ransom, pass the IL pretrial justice act.' next to the text are images of two No Face characters from Spirited Away, and they are tearing open a jail and eating a cop car. There is a second bottom banner that says 'stop the violence, invest in our communities'

Ofc one of my fav pieces I've ever collaborated on, the infamous No Face banner I created with Nikkei Uprising and A Just Chi members ❤️‍🔥 lower banner was a collab with me and @juliemcreates.bsky.social and Ama Merrell

Visionary banner (top) by Kara Rodriguez and Ruby Pinto, lower one I think was painted by @monicatrinidad.bsky.social and Grae Rosa?

This super crisp poster from Tesh Silver! This was part of the @justseeds.bsky.social suite of posters that @monicatrinidad.bsky.social coordinated 🔥

Large digital painting featuring a black family amongst yellow flowers with the phrase 'the pretrial fairness act protects from harms of pretrial jailing '

Some of my fav pieces from Chicago artists (⁠人⁠ ⁠•͈⁠ᴗ⁠•͈⁠) first up this piece from @retejiendo.bsky.social

Photo of my hand holding a flyer in front of a long open atrium. The flyer is purple and says 'art in action, how artists helped IL end money bond. Tues April 29th, 2025 at the IL State library atrium. 5-7pm program at 5:45

Photo of a large brightly lit atrium, banners hang from an overhead walkway that say 'cash bail is ransom' and 'stop the violence, invest in our communities'

Finished installing at the IL State Library in Springfield! Put up art and banners from the last 9+ years of the campaign to end Money Bond and now fund Public Defense in IL ✊🏼 @endmoneybond.bsky.social

Wait is this final

If May is Asian American Pacific islander heritage month, then April is East Asian Ignorance and Audacity month

Illustration of a slightly crumpled plastic bag with the hippo bakery logo in light pink. Also a triangle folded plastic bag

Illustration of a slightly crumpled plastic bag with the Yaohan globe logo on it in teal.

Illustration of a slightly crumpled plastic bag with the mitsuwa logo on it in blue and red. Also a triangle folded plastic bag

If you know these bags we may be kin

Descendant of a Japanese American WW2 Incarceree here to say it's never about "innocent" or "guilty" it's about who is a target for the state. Those in power will make you guilty/illegal if they want you to be and we must all see thru the bullshit. Free them ALL

That's the part I was 🫣 for LOL

Love her, rooting for her, had to watch her kissing scenes through slotted fingers

Damn wtf!!!

Talked to DePaul students today about their relationship to time, and asked if they ever interact with their future selves. One student said that the future is too terrifying and so they cope by just trying to live thru the present ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ deeply relatable, deeply distressing. Free our futures ‼️

Let's Make Beni-Imo Tart! Lessons in Community Care from the Ryukyus — Workshops 4 Gaza Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $30). Step 2: Register for “Let’s Make Beni-Imo Tart” here . In this workshop, Nozomi and alice will teach participants how to ma...

‼️Calling farmers, food studies scholars, and people interested in how Indigenous communities call upon their knowledge to survive in times of war and colonialism to join us for “Let’s Make Beni-Imo Tart! Lessons in Community Care from the Ryūkyūs.”

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/let...

This may be one of the worst moments in history to fetishize the law or the quality of being law-abiding.

Screenshot from love on the spectrum season 3 showing Tina and Pari holding hands caption says 'pari and Tina are very much in love'

Screenshot from Instagram with "blindsided_in_boston liked your comment: Queens for wearing masks on the train 😭😭"

!!!! This is hands down the best news I've heard in weeks (⁠っ⁠˘̩⁠╭⁠╮⁠˘̩⁠)⁠っ (love on the spectrum season 3 spoilers)

Photo of a panel of 4 academics with 3 screens above them. Projected on the screen is a digital illustration of Grace Lee Boggs with the quote 'the only way to survive is by taking care of one another' with imagery of orchids and mushrooms around the text

Close up of the illustration of the digital illustration with a portrait of Grace Lee Boggs 1915-2015 and the quote 'the only way to survive is by taking care of One Another" Boggs foundation. Surrounding the quote are illustrations of orchids and mushrooms

Aww Scott Kurashige shared the illustration I made for the Boggs Foundation at a panel at the Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Ed conf in Oakland today! Thanks Karen Su for being an academic scout and sending me these pics (⁠◡⁠ ⁠ω⁠ ⁠◡⁠)