Tori Toguchi
@toguchi.bsky.social
Co-creator of Ichariba Choodee: Okinawan Voices and Stories and Shimanchu Visual Archives.
Based in Los Angeles, from Hawaiʻi. Okinawan Gosei.
Shimanchu Discord: https://discord.gg/XCjsaPwDx6
Based in Los Angeles, from Hawaiʻi. Okinawan Gosei.
Shimanchu Discord: https://discord.gg/XCjsaPwDx6
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If you're in Okinawa, I recommend this exhibit! On top of loads of great art well contextualized by the curator with notes and commentary, it also highlights how Okinawa and Vietnam have similar histories of being colonized and used as proxies in larger wars, and asks some big important questions.
沖縄戦後80年・ベトナム戦争終結50年祈念「ベトナム、記憶の風景」
沖縄県立博物館・美術館（おきみゅー）では2025年11月22日から2026年1月18日まで、沖縄戦後80年・ベトナム戦争終結50年祈念「ベトナム、記憶の風景」を企画ギャラリー1,2で開催します
okimu.jp
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
If you're in Okinawa, I recommend this exhibit! On top of loads of great art well contextualized by the curator with notes and commentary, it also highlights how Okinawa and Vietnam have similar histories of being colonized and used as proxies in larger wars, and asks some big important questions.
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A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
It Starts With a Whisper
A celebration of the strength, wisdom, beauty and humour of Native women; of Native culture and people, surviving and thriving.
vucavu.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A collection of environmental films made by Indigenous filmmakers that I've screened in Ecocinema over the years (shared today for obvious reasons):
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
1. It Starts with a Whisper (Shelley & Gronau Niro, 1993) vucavu.com/en/cfmdc/199...
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Mai Hassan and Ahmed Kodouda: Sudan’s Intractable War | Foreign Affairs Interview
youtu.be/8uAZzCobY1o?...
youtu.be/8uAZzCobY1o?...
Mai Hassan and Ahmed Kodouda: Sudan’s Intractable War | Foreign Affairs Interview
YouTube video by Foreign Affairs
youtu.be
May 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Mai Hassan and Ahmed Kodouda: Sudan’s Intractable War | Foreign Affairs Interview
youtu.be/8uAZzCobY1o?...
youtu.be/8uAZzCobY1o?...
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I'm looking forward to this roundtable next Wednesday (December 3) on "Colonial Libraries and Anticolonial Resistance."
There's a fantastic lineup, including @cindyanguyen.bsky.social, who will be discussing her new book!
RSVP to get the Zoom link: calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...
#libsky
There's a fantastic lineup, including @cindyanguyen.bsky.social, who will be discussing her new book!
RSVP to get the Zoom link: calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...
#libsky
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I'm looking forward to this roundtable next Wednesday (December 3) on "Colonial Libraries and Anticolonial Resistance."
There's a fantastic lineup, including @cindyanguyen.bsky.social, who will be discussing her new book!
RSVP to get the Zoom link: calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...
#libsky
There's a fantastic lineup, including @cindyanguyen.bsky.social, who will be discussing her new book!
RSVP to get the Zoom link: calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...
#libsky
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🌺 Professor Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum ’19 spoke on the KOʻAKĀ: Protecting Native Hawaiian Intellectual Property panel at Windward CC’s Gallery ʻIolani, joined by Rep. Darius Kila and led by Professor Kapulani Landgraf. The series creates space for cultural dialogue and reflection.
#WSRSL
📸 R. Heirakuji
#WSRSL
📸 R. Heirakuji
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🌺 Professor Uʻilani Tanigawa Lum ’19 spoke on the KOʻAKĀ: Protecting Native Hawaiian Intellectual Property panel at Windward CC’s Gallery ʻIolani, joined by Rep. Darius Kila and led by Professor Kapulani Landgraf. The series creates space for cultural dialogue and reflection.
#WSRSL
📸 R. Heirakuji
#WSRSL
📸 R. Heirakuji
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"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission. n.pr/4pqMJQ5
'Reflections in Black' celebrates history of Black photography with expanded issue
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.
n.pr
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission. n.pr/4pqMJQ5
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Police have accused a U.S. Navy sailor on Okinawa of inappropriately touching a Japanese girl over the summer, adding to a string of offenses that have roiled the island community the past two years.
www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...
www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...
Okinawa police accuse US Navy sailor of inappropriately touching teenage girl
Police have accused a U.S. Navy sailor on Okinawa of inappropriately touching a Japanese girl over the summer.
www.stripes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Police have accused a U.S. Navy sailor on Okinawa of inappropriately touching a Japanese girl over the summer, adding to a string of offenses that have roiled the island community the past two years.
www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...
www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Catching up with a friend at Ülëw Coffee & Juice, which serves Guatemalan flavors and ambience! It was a lovely way to spend my afternoon (and the coffee was delicious)!
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Catching up with a friend at Ülëw Coffee & Juice, which serves Guatemalan flavors and ambience! It was a lovely way to spend my afternoon (and the coffee was delicious)!
Mango Sticky Rice Matcha and Pumpkin Spice Latte with colleagues today. ☺️
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Mango Sticky Rice Matcha and Pumpkin Spice Latte with colleagues today. ☺️
Two different Okinawa Soba, both with Asa (アーサー). Soba on the left also has Yushi Dofu (ゆし豆腐).
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Two different Okinawa Soba, both with Asa (アーサー). Soba on the left also has Yushi Dofu (ゆし豆腐).
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Join us 11/18 at 1 p.m. ET for our 3rd annual webinar on the state of trans rights. 🏳️⚧️
We continue to face a wave of coordinated attacks from both state & federal levels. Tune in as we break down these fast-moving developments & what they mean for trans people.
RSVP now: tinyurl.com/45tmvz56
We continue to face a wave of coordinated attacks from both state & federal levels. Tune in as we break down these fast-moving developments & what they mean for trans people.
RSVP now: tinyurl.com/45tmvz56
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Join us 11/18 at 1 p.m. ET for our 3rd annual webinar on the state of trans rights. 🏳️⚧️
We continue to face a wave of coordinated attacks from both state & federal levels. Tune in as we break down these fast-moving developments & what they mean for trans people.
RSVP now: tinyurl.com/45tmvz56
We continue to face a wave of coordinated attacks from both state & federal levels. Tune in as we break down these fast-moving developments & what they mean for trans people.
RSVP now: tinyurl.com/45tmvz56
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Bashofu textiles, crafted from Okinawan banana fibers, achieve softness, durability, and breathability through precise artisan techniques that optimize fiber structure for subtropical comfort.
Bashofu textiles combine banana fiber structure and artisan skill for sustainable comfort
For as long as humans have been around, we have been using our hands and senses to create beautiful and useful objects from the natural environment around us.
phys.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Bashofu textiles, crafted from Okinawan banana fibers, achieve softness, durability, and breathability through precise artisan techniques that optimize fiber structure for subtropical comfort.
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A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.
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The Mitsuishi Ainu Society is holding an Ainu Music Festival on Sunday at the Hamanasu Hall in Shinhidaka. Free entry, doors open at 12pm and performances start at 1pm.
Ainu artists Oki & Rekpo, Marewrew, Nin Cup and Kapiw & Apappo are among those performing.
More info: kaih.at/iEHLM
Ainu artists Oki & Rekpo, Marewrew, Nin Cup and Kapiw & Apappo are among those performing.
More info: kaih.at/iEHLM
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The Mitsuishi Ainu Society is holding an Ainu Music Festival on Sunday at the Hamanasu Hall in Shinhidaka. Free entry, doors open at 12pm and performances start at 1pm.
Ainu artists Oki & Rekpo, Marewrew, Nin Cup and Kapiw & Apappo are among those performing.
More info: kaih.at/iEHLM
Ainu artists Oki & Rekpo, Marewrew, Nin Cup and Kapiw & Apappo are among those performing.
More info: kaih.at/iEHLM
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“Housing is harder and harder to build, but projects like Umeya show what’s possible when community and legacy come together.”
laist.com/news/housing...
laist.com/news/housing...
How the LA site of an iconic Japanese cracker brand became supportive housing
The Umeya is meant to act as a bridge between Skid Row and Little Tokyo.
laist.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“Housing is harder and harder to build, but projects like Umeya show what’s possible when community and legacy come together.”
laist.com/news/housing...
laist.com/news/housing...
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A life-changing moment of my academic career was the decision to do language training at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. Great teachers and location in Yokohama. The call for the next cohort is now posted! #Japan #language #PhDLife iuc.fsi.stanford.edu/programs-10M
IUC Programs 10-Month
iuc.fsi.stanford.edu
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A life-changing moment of my academic career was the decision to do language training at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. Great teachers and location in Yokohama. The call for the next cohort is now posted! #Japan #language #PhDLife iuc.fsi.stanford.edu/programs-10M
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
Tsukazan-aza, Haebaru Tsunahiki in Okinawa last year. Unfortunately didn't make it to the actual tug of war but experiencing this district's way of celebrating it was fun!
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Tsukazan-aza, Haebaru Tsunahiki in Okinawa last year. Unfortunately didn't make it to the actual tug of war but experiencing this district's way of celebrating it was fun!
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［戦後８０年］戦没７人の遺骨 壕に 糸満真栄里 入れ歯も 弾貫通か 京都のＮＰＯ収集
［戦後８０年］戦没７人の遺骨 壕に 糸満真栄里 入れ歯も 弾貫通か 京都のＮＰＯ収集
2025年11月08日 08時40分
www.okinawatimes.co.jp
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM
［戦後８０年］戦没７人の遺骨 壕に 糸満真栄里 入れ歯も 弾貫通か 京都のＮＰＯ収集
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Fábio Akamine's research into his family history was kindled by his uncle's stories and even after his passing, continues to be ever present. He shares how their relationship evolved and how it lead to a book and exhibition presented in Okinawa and Brazil.
Shinko Akamine, my teacher
I still have half a dozen long videos to review. They're recordings from recently digitized old VHS tapes, capturing my family's Christmas celebrations in the 1980s and 1990s. Between the antics of the kids and the excitement of some slightly drunk uncles, the Akamine family's true Christmas spirit invariably reveals itself in two moments on …
discovernikkei.org
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Fábio Akamine's research into his family history was kindled by his uncle's stories and even after his passing, continues to be ever present. He shares how their relationship evolved and how it lead to a book and exhibition presented in Okinawa and Brazil.
A photo in Kyoto from 2018.
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A photo in Kyoto from 2018.
Last year's experience at the Haebaru Kasuri Kaikan with my friend, Mai. Learning more about the textile and its history and seeing masters at their craft was such a cool experience!
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Last year's experience at the Haebaru Kasuri Kaikan with my friend, Mai. Learning more about the textile and its history and seeing masters at their craft was such a cool experience!
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The article states this will be a crisis of proportions not seen since the Great Depression & I cannot stress enough that this is all being willfully inflicted upon us because an octogenarian's having a temper tantrum
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The article states this will be a crisis of proportions not seen since the Great Depression & I cannot stress enough that this is all being willfully inflicted upon us because an octogenarian's having a temper tantrum
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...