Tamiko Nimura

Alum here and NOOOOO

Black and White and Read All Over Where Scholarship Meets the Public

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@americanstudier.bsky.social and I are very grateful for the support of our work and space to build resources and connections for public humanities scholars. Leaving Substack and rebuilding on our own site was hard but so worth it.

They were teens when a parent was deported. They still feel the pain as adults The Guardian spoke to adults now in their 20s, 30s, and 40s to reflect on the lasting impact of family separation in the US

NEW: For @theguardian.com, I spoke to people in their 20s, 30s, and 40s whose parents were deported under the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations about the long-term impacts of family separation:

ICE is STILL in Minnesota and STILL terrorizing communities. Reporters that say otherwise are either uninformed (which....) or lazy (which... ) or just repeating regime lies (which... is also extremely bad).

People are still missing, people are and will be traumatized, businesses demolished...

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Publishing Pros Band Together to Root Out Censorship Publishing Professionals Against Book Bans, a new resource-sharing community affiliated with Authors Against Book Bans and geared toward industry insiders, will host its first virtual town hall on Oct...

Thanks to @publisherswkly.bsky.social for featuring @pubprosabb.bsky.social — I hope you'll join us in the fight! 📚❤️‍🔥

"So much of the work of oppression is about policing the imagination."
- Saidiya Hartman

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

I had a daydream that Mackenzie Scott started a media company and opened 30 local newspapers in midsized cities and 10,000 people got jobs and it cost exactly the amount Bezos should have paid in taxes on purpose.

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump

Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

12 upcoming books we're excited to read Winter is still here, and for some of us that means extra time for catching up on reading.

Thanks to The Spokesman-Review for including A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE (@uwapress.uw.edu) on their spring list of “Upcoming books we’re excited to read”! www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Another American War of Choice The US launched another war of choice in the Middle East and everyday people are paying the cost

This weekend drones and missiles were launched at my city.

This is another American war of choice.

buttondown.com/natebowling/...

Seattle, come celebrate the release of Adrian De Leon's new book, BALIKBAYAN: A Revenant History of the Filipino Homeland. Joined by Moon-Ho Jung, De Leon will discuss what it means to go back home when “home” is shaped by conquest, labor, and longing.

📅Saturday, March 7 at 12 pm
📍Mam's Books

Thank you so much!

Book cover of A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE and excerpt from the Publishers Weekly starred review.

Grateful for a starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social for A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE!

Trump administration tries to deprive poor Minnesotans of health care because brave Minnesotans stood up to them.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Thank you!

Photo of taiko performers next to a sign that reads "Not OK in 1942, not OK now"

Photo of a Japanese American elder speaking into a microphone

Another DOR event at the NW ICE Processing Center today. Big turnout despite freezing rain.

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

Tamiko Nimura reflects on her family’s history of incarceration in the U.S. during WWII The incarceration of over 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II forever altered life for Japanese Americans and their families.

Thanks to the NW Asian Weekly for this conversation: nwasianweekly.com/2026/02/tami...

Message for today's commemoration of Day of Remembrance from our compas at Tsuru for Solidarity network

Libraries Are for Everyone: Invest in Libraries New York City's public libraries offer vital support to all, regardless of background, income, birthplace, or beliefs.

This funding increase to 0.5% is a core demand of NYC PLAN - one which has been amplified by our library systems to help ensure that every branch has the staffing and resources to provide robust services to their communities.

Help us get NYC libraries the raise they deserve

investinlibraries.org

Yes, can we please change the clichéd language we use to describe books and authors?

The denial of tenure was never about scholarship. It was a retaliatory move from @texastechlib.bsky.social to send a chilling message: dissent that threatens institutional power will be punished. Shame on Ron Hendrick, Brendon Creighton, Lawrence Schovanec turned tenure into a political tool!

solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

It's at over a million in the 2 hours since I skeeted this.

CBS again bent the knee to Trump and blocked Stephen Colbert from hosting Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.

*rushes to read*