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Frances, San Francisco

2023, Sony Handycam

Cinematographer, editor, original score composition

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Temperance

2023, Panasonic AG-DVX100A 3-CCD Camcorder

Cinematographer, editor

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There is Meaning to Being Alive in the First Place

2023, Canon T6

Videographer, editor, Japanese to English translator, original score composition

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On Anti-Japan Thought / 半日思想について

2021, risograph and laser print

Writer, translator, illustrator, printmaker

Bilingual (Japanese and English) 30 page zine that opens from one end in English, and the other in Japanese. Original illustrations and J to E translation with a risograph cover.

"The East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front was a series of autonomous anti-imperialist guerilla cells formed in Japan in the 1970s. Between 1974 and 1975 each formation of EAAJAF - Ookami [Wolf], Daichi no Kiba [Fangs of the Earth], and Sasori [Scorpion] - conducted a number of bombings targeting the imperialist core of Japan. This is translation of a letter written in 1982 by Masashi Daidouji, a member of the Ookami cell of the EAAJAF.

The Japanese government coordinated a mass arrest of seven members of EAAJAF on May 19, 1975. Daidouji was among them and was eventually sentenced to death. Throughout their legal battle and time in prison, members of EAAJAF and their supporters outside continued putting pressure on the institutions around them, particularly for better conditions for prisoners in Japan.

This letter, from Daidouji to his friend Nobuhiro Takemoto, is one within an anthology of letters and writings to and from Daidouji while in prison. It was first published in 1984 and re-released in 1992. The title of the letter - On Anti-Japan Thought - is from this book."

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Fusako Shigenobu, In Her Own Words

Risograph 10 page zine, 2023

Layout and design, printmaker

“Fusako Shigenobu, In Her Own Words” is an English translation by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda of Fusako Shigenobu’s newsletter written in December 2021. Fusako is the former leader of the Japanese Red Army, a communist guerrilla organization which carried out attacks against the embassies of various Western states, the US military, and multinational corporations from the 1970s until the late 1980s, in solidarity with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

During her time in prison in Japan, Fusako was supported by a small but steadfast group of comrades who called themselves “The Olive Tree.” For over twenty years, this group published a monthly newsletter that allowed Fusako to communicate her thoughts to the outside world, including her reflections on current affairs, particularly the geopolitical situation in the Middle East; daily diary entries detailing her observations from prison; original tanka poems; as well as letter exchanges she had with those who wrote her from the outside. After twenty years incarcerated, Fusako was released in May 2022.

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Bat Noise [L]

Whine [R]

2023, Disposable Camera

Photographer

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Valentine and JJ

2023, Disposable Camera

Photographer

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Sucker

2023, Disposable Camera

Photographer

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Audio: Scream Queens Radio + Interview with Earthbound

(Interview starts at 1 hour and 12 minutes)

2017

DJ and Co-host

"Scream Queens Radio went to church with duo EARTHBOUND, as they opened up doors to other worlds of music, vulnerability, and the power of women making art and sound together. Featured on this segment is a live performance and an interview with the Oakland based band, tuning us into what we as Scream Queens value, and wish to see more often in our midst - a future outside of a white cis-hetero patriarchal world."