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cori nakamura lin
@cori-lin.bsky.social
visual artist + aspiring cultural worker in chicago

organizing with Nikkei Uprising | gigging at @onibaba-studio.bsky.social | proud descendant of multiple east asian islands | humble neighbor of the great lakes |
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Hi I'm cori!! I'm a visual artist and aspiring cultural worker migrating over from IG 🪽🪽

Besides painting and organizing i also love to talk about baskets/weaving, the ice forms of lake Michigan, train shit, my snake and roly-pollies (⁠。⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧
a pika-pillar!!!
July 11, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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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.
June 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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 !!!!
May 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Made this self-cooking self-heating bibimbap kit on the amtrak, once again proving that Asians live in the future
May 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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_⁠/⁠¯
May 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
if this plant can grow in the basement of my apartment building then you too can go on to fight thru another day!!! Ganbarimashou!!!
May 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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For Mother's Day - prints from the Free Our Mamas campaign to free incarcerated mothers! justseeds.org?s=People%27s...
May 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Postcard in solidarity with all who came before us and all who will exist after 2/2 #bakekujira #digitalillustration
May 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Postcard in solidarity with all who came before us and all who will exist after 1/2 #ryujin #digitalillustration
May 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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)
May 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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
April 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If May is Asian American Pacific islander heritage month, then April is East Asian Ignorance and Audacity month
April 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
If you know these bags we may be kin
April 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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
Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Mahmoud Khalil
Rümeysa Öztürk
Mohsen Mahdawi ...
April 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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 ‼️
April 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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‼️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...
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...
www.workshops4gaza.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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This may be one of the worst moments in history to fetishize the law or the quality of being law-abiding.
April 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
!!!! This is hands down the best news I've heard in weeks (⁠っ⁠˘̩⁠╭⁠╮⁠˘̩⁠)⁠っ (love on the spectrum season 3 spoilers)
April 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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 ⁠◡⁠)
April 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
In Tulsa, learning about the massacre/war crime/genocide at Black Wall Street in 1921 and how it became coded in history as a 'riot'..... Grateful for the Greenwood memory keepers, oral historians, survivors, descendants, who are keeping truth alive
April 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Prisons Must Fall 🌱

Happy Publication Day to this beautiful, hopeful book by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball, illustrated by @ollycostello.bsky.social! 💐
April 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
So obsessed with this talk by @littlebadger.bsky.social and Joshua Whitehead hosted at the Newberry Library last week. Rolled up with @laurakina.bsky.social and @tatiakamine.bsky.social to be a lil shimanchu contingent ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧
March 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Love love love this sign by @mtvk.bsky.social I struggle with movement things that don't plug directly into organizing, but showing up with multiple gens of shimanchu - to revel in trans power and weather the sun showers - did comfort my despair!!
March 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
LOL why did we decide to pose like this (⁠─⁠.⁠─⁠|⁠|⁠)loved talking to Karen's 'Asian American Life Stories' students last week! Wish I could have taken a class like that as a student!! @jaminlin.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM