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[uwmspeccoll]

Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: KEVIN MIYAZAKI

Today we highlight Milwaukee-based photographer and artist Kevin Miyazaki, and his book A Guide to Modern Camp Homes: 10 New Models & Plans for Persons of Japanese Ancestry. Our copy was published in 2024, but editions were also released in 2013, and 2018. Miyazaki’s statement on the final page characterizes the book as “a fictional publication containing only facts.” Styled after Sears Roebuck catalogues of the time, the optimistic salesmanship stands in harsh contrast to both the bleak descriptions of the camps, where Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II, and the heavy legacy of our nation’s human rights abuses. In a section titled Home Design, the copy assures: “Constructed mainly from wood and tar paper, your new home is designed to conform to international law.”

The book draws extensively from archival materials. Photographs come from the catalogues of the Library of Congress and include documentary work by Ansel Adams, Clem Albers, Fred Clark, Hikaru Iwasaki, Dorothea Lange, Tom Parker and Francis Stewart. First person testimonials are from Densho, a public history project documenting and preserving oral histories and primary source materials related to the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Libby and Patrick Castro of LP/ws Design Studio crafted the architectural designs.

Copies of A Guide to Modern Camp Homes are available for purchase through the Japanese American National Museum.

See more AAPI Month posts!

--Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[tampire]

When you first get to know me / When I unleash my big personality

[micronsizedbean]

egg tarts from my taiwan trip

[dailydccomics]

"It's an honor to draw all 6 of this year's AAPI Heritage Month covers for @/DCOfficial, and to make it feel extra special I connected them into a giant celebration of some of the DCU's Asian characters." -Cliff Chiang on formerly Twitter

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ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY DAYS HAPPY TIMES SOLIDARITY FOREVER!!!!! If u wanna see middle aged trans AAPI characters with messy situationships u should totally follow me and check out my ocs. WHO I PUT IN FANCY CONSTUMES 4 THIS MONTH!!!

Closeups under cut cus I’m super proud of this. Happy aapi month my guys

[bimdraws]

Hawaiians for Palestine 🇵🇸

[iron-sparrow]

AANHPI Heritage Month ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚. Asian American ‧ Native Hawaiian ‧ Pacific Islander

May has been recognized as Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month since 1991, when it started as a single week of observance in the United States. Over time, the name has undergone changes to be more inclusive, while also shining a light on the very obvious flaws of lumping so many different cultural and ethnic groups under a single umbrella.

I decided to write some posts in 2024 commemorating AANHPI Heritage Month, and I like to think it was well-received and also somewhat insightful. I enjoyed the experience, on a very personal level, and promised myself to do something similar this year.

To be honest with you, friends and mutuals, my heart hurts with anger as I write this. My celebratory spirit still eludes me, buried under the ongoing stress of simply existing as I am.

On January 20, 2025, the fascists in power signed Executive Order 14148, titled "Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders." AANHPI Heritage Month and other observance months were axed, no longer recognized by the federal government; the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI), established in 1999, was dissolved.

I am filled with pain and rage. I am determined also to turn that pain and rage into action and advocacy ⸺ I hope you will do the same, both online and off. Because as long as we exist, all of us must demand to be recognized.

Let us have a productive and enlightening month.

[katieaki]

It's Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Wouldn't you like to read about a lesbian wasian cowgirl getting up to shit in a Japanese-American-flavored post-apocalypse, written by a Japanese-American lesbian (me)?

cowgirl in geta and jinbei. butch in boro and zori. you see the vision. read the story.

one of the world's two gods is nisei (from pre-apocalypse) and the Japanese-Wastelanderian population and cultural influence is big in my ~worldbuilding~. additionally, the main characters have been crashing at a coastal fishing village with a family of ama (pearl divers). I've been having a lot of fun pushing the "old west" and "ukiyo-e" sliders all around throughout this story. the girls are double fisting snake oil and tsūsensan. there's a big banjo/cookie tin banjo/shamisen/cigar box shamisen family jam. kuchikami pine sol*. come on! you'll love it!

*note: pine sol is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the Wasteland Anyway: Read Pony Express!

[dearcloudheart]

proship/comship/etc dni

[onyx-collective]

The most unique Jane Austen adaptation film has ever seen 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[doeeyeddyke]

Lend a hand?

I technically have a job but have Very Few hours and never make even $90 a week. That's most definitely not enough to cover the bigger bills and mortgage and whatnot, let alone lunch money or grade school expenses for my siblings.

I also need to take both cats to the vet for a number of treatments, but seeing as just a general physical exam is about $100, it's just straight up not an option to take them anytime soon.

Any help and sharing is appreciated, including recommendations on the vet front for options.

ko-fi

c-app: purple0925

vmo/pp: hbm0925

[reverie-quotes]

If you don't believe it, go down to your local karaoke bar on a busy night. Wait until the third hour, when the drunk frat boys and gastropub waitresses with headshots are all done with Backstreet Boys and Alicia Keys and locate the slightly older Asian businessman standing patiently in line for his turn, his face warmly rouged on Crown or Japanese lager, and when he steps up and starts slaying "Country Roads," try not to laugh, or wink knowingly or clap a little too hard, because by the time he gets to "West Virginia, mountain mama," you're going to be singing along, and by the time he's done, you might understand why a seventy-seven-year-old guy from a tiny island in the Taiwan Strait who's been in a foreign country for two-thirds of his life can nail a song, note perfect, about wanting to go home.

— Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

[why-i-love-comics]

DC AAPI Heritage Month covers

[rachy-chel]

ceramic Filipino food and banana leaf plate. the siopao, gyoza, and lumpia are filled with: clay and burnt newspapers :)

[ssavaart]

Day 14 of my Hair Journal was painting during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPI).

I reached out to Professor Wayne Quilliam who specialized in photography of Aboriginal people (who works with the Aboriginal people and gets permission to photograph them) and he gave me permission to reference his photography for my portrait.

https://aboriginal.photography/

For the background, I referenced the traditional Aboriginal Dot Painting.

I always find it so interesting to paint people from all over the world. Though I bet traveling and doing it in person would be far more interesting than from my little Hobbit Hole.

Still... I really enjoyed it.