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Born "doing time" in Poston, Mia Yamamoto's own experiences inspired her to spend her life fighting for others. She became the first openly transgender attorney in California history in 2003. #TransDayOfVisibility
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Molly Murakami (she/her) is a cartoonist & storyteller from Minneapolis. In her personal work, @heymolls is often drawn to themes of family, shared histories, & identity. Murakami’s graphic novel In Your Path explores intergenerational trauma & relationship to her grandfather.
5. Tak Yamamoto: The first openly gay president of any chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, a longtime leader of @manzanarcomm, and co-founder of the first formal org created specifically by and for queer Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
From 1895-1905, Yeiko Mizobe So ran a shelter for Japanese immigrant women escaping domestic violence. Despite constant threats from abusers & those who enabled them, she provided housing, education, and even reproductive health services to over 700 women. https://t.co/OnsNrkfyRd
This #WomensHistoryMonth let's honor the brilliant leadership of women like Mia Yamamoto—the first openly trans attorney in California history and a lifelong defender of human rights—by standing with our queer, trans, Black, brown & incarcerated siblings. https://t.co/cCz5z0Lre6
Happy birthday, Ruth Asawa! Asawa first learned to weave through work making camouflage nets at Rohwer concentration camp and went on to become part of the vanguard of modernist sculpture. Read more about her on the Densho blog: https://t.co/TzQApFnZbD
Our resident artist @geniusbeee drew up these brilliant homages to some bad ass Japanese Americans who have been inspiring us lately. We made them into magnets so they can be part of your daily rituals of resistance too. Make a donation and get your own: https://t.co/ypwWPKGN8S