All those who are here in Seattle for the AAAStudies Conference: Please come thru for the TEA ROOM! Share with everyone.

Happening Now: Hundreds of students at the University of Minnesota lock hands and encircle encamptment as police threaten arrests

Daghang salamat, Dr. Diaz!

Lifting up Dr. Diaz's name as a Filipino-Pohnpeian scholar from Guam and an immovable bridge in Critical Indigenous/Pasifika studies. He also received his PhD in History of Consciousness from UC Santa Cruz: a program that graduated numerous of our beloved revolutionary thinkers

Currently at the University of Minnesota Gaza/Palestine solidarity encampment. Day 2 of the re-established encampment. 4/30/2024 5pm

This is the response to the Zionist attack on UCLA’s encampment. It’s beautiful.

You can’t talk about AAPI Heritage Month without talking about AAPI History and you can’t talk about AAPI History without talking about Palestine.

🇵🇸The tents are gone (for now) but the UMN student protesters are STILL HERE and will KEEP SHOWING UP until the administration follows through with divestment!🇵🇸

UCLA Asian American Studies Solidarity Statement denouncing UC-condoned police violence against students and demanding amnesty, a vote of no confidence, and that UCLA disclose/divest asianam.ucla.edu/2024/05/03/asi…

Calls for Asian American solidarity w/ Palestine that center geography ("Palestine is in Asia") or history ("Asian Americans opposed the Vietnam war") often obscure the fact that the same imperialism responsible for the genocide in Gaza also divides and occupies Asia. A 🧵...

I love being a PhD student. it feels like I’m expected to be miserable or overwhelmed. but as a first-gen student, I’ve had to overcome a lot worse to get here. to read and write and learn for a living feels like a gift that I hope I never take for granted, inshallah 🙏🏽

"Becoming Hoa: Indigenous Political Thought & the Question of Settler Aloha ʻĀina in Hawaiʻi" is out now⏩bit.ly/becominghoa! Mahalo nui loa to the editors of this stunning special issue for American Quarterly entitled "'We are not American' Still"⏩muse.jhu.edu/issue/53203

The AQ issue is here! 🚀 "We Are Not American, Still (and Maybe You're Not, Either)." Includes a fresh take on rethinking Asian settler colonialism, co-authored with my mentor & friend Davi Pōmaika'i McGregor. Grateful to learn & write with this pathbreaking scholar. #LandBack⬇️

Really appreciate this exploration of the changing political economy in Hawai'i throughout history to critique current theorizations on Asian settler colonialism scholarship.

Daghang salamat to my UMN American Studies department for this recognition. This dissertation chapter draft allowed me to unpack what it means when people say, “Don’t Hang With Those Kalihi Kids.” It’s in this unpacking that, I argue, disrupts popular imaginations of Hawai‘i as “paradise.”