iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Someone who believes a nation is irredeemable does not give speeches urging justice and redemption.

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The structural response to this title is “solid”

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I just asked Chuck and he said “of course I remember him”

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We have adopted many dogs and cats from shelters and rescues. Every time it’s the same: they picked us. A dog just leans against you, looks deep into your eyes and says “when are we going home?”

120

Reposted by @marimatsuda.bsky.social

Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Everything old is new again: Ben Sakoguchi, "World War III Brand," from the Orange Crate series, 1974-81. Sakoguchi, now 87 years old, is a Japanese American artist who was interned with his family in Arizona during WWII. Based in Southern California, he has been steadily making work since the 1960s

46321

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Honolulu in the streets for Venezuela.

Hand written sign “Demilitarize Deoccupy Okinawa and Hawai’i” with taped on addition “and Venezuela”

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

A young friend just recommended it to me.

110

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

So proud that my work is on the wall of my favorite museum, declaring that good things happen when people act in solidarity. honolulumuseum.org/mari-matsuda...

Woman artist stands smiling before two large black and white prints of protesters and fishermen.

2150

Reposted by @marimatsuda.bsky.social

Nelini Stamp 🐺 @nelini.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The Resistance Revival Chorus has a message for Home Depot: We don't want deportations at The Home Depot parking lots! #WeAintBuyingIt want to organize your own carols?!? Heres lyrics: bit.ly/holidaycarol...

15823

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Thanks for the push, just emailed my uni

040

Reposted by @marimatsuda.bsky.social

vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful." — Assata Shakur (July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)

131894

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Solidarity action for marchers in Gunsan, Korea protesting destruction of tidal flats where the Sura birds live - to build yet another US military serving airport. Birds not bombs! Sura, aka Kuaka, long distance record-holding migratory champ, beloved in Polynesia, not just Korea.

People with protest signs (“tidal flats not airports!”) in Korean and English, peace flag, woman in bird costume (me) kneels in front. Diamondhead/Leahi in background to show we are in the destroyed-for-tourism former wetlands of Waikiki.

0102

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Happy to support this project. Every kid should know Benjamin Lay.

150

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Thank you for writing this lovely piece. I still, tentatively, believe it was not for nothing, because they left us an obligation to fight and that is something.

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Someone told me bt can hurt bees. Is this true?

100

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

For Asian America the line between citizen and foreigner has never meant safety. Here is my etching from my grandmother’s painting of Heart Mountain, where she was imprisoned with her US citizen sons. My father volunteered for combat duty from behind barbed wire.

Landscape of desert with barracks and dome-shaped mountain in the distance, human figures in foreground. Fine lined copper etching, traditional style, with black tones at bottom transitioning to red at top in the wiping technique called a la poupet.

0102

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

No, it fell out of their pocket when they dropped their pants to… whatever. Same reason you find coins, right?

000

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Happy May Day! To go with all of todayʻs union actions, here is when the amazing artist Favianna Rodrigues visited my drawings of 1940s-70s struggles. (Last week to see these at Native Books/Arts and Letters)

Two women artists stand smiling in front of charcoal drawings of strikers, workers, protesters.

160

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Union power as far as you can see outside the Honolulu federal building. You will have to imagine the sound of hundreds singing Solidarity Forever to go with these pics.

Woman singing into bullhorn, street lined with picketers, old and young.

Pickets line the street, red t shirts and flags of Unite Here. Hawaiian flag also visible. Under green trees and bright blue sky.

060

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Hi, maybe ask a botanist if they are samara (seeds with wings) Charms to make trees do well?

000

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

What was on the playlist at your university’s action today? Bet you can’t top The Times They Are A Changin followed by Kaulana Nā Pua

Two Kanaka singers with flowering Gold Tree in background.

130

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thanks, Mary, for pushing all of us to fight back. Humanities = human. Everything we do to survive and find love and know ourselves. Our beating hearts. Plus, once I was a debt-burdened asst prof who really needed those tiny grants.

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Your mother and her parents are watching from somewhere and they are soooo proud. A 3 generation legacy of holding Harvard to the highest standards.

090

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A waiting room for a pediatrician, with your kid. My family’s pediatrician in DC told me there were parents she never saw, only the nanny. I was shocked. It seems so basic to parenting.

041

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The guy I count on for historically-informed strategy says it’s time to poke the bear. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

inthesetimes.com

For Labor, Caution Is Fatal

The riskiest course is to stay the course.

072

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Qualitative info as well: my mom was a Headstart trainer. Headstart moms got help with getting GEDs, going on to college, pulling whole families out of poverty.Years later women still tell me “your mom made me register at HCC (local community college)”

022

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I converted an old guitar into a dobro by adding a resonator and a thrift shop tray for a cover.

110

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Thank you for knowing and remembering.

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Camp Shelby - Mr. Finch remembered fondly here!

030

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Thank you Alex, you are a great anger translator.

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Thank you Laura, our shared outrage gives me hope.

060

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Thank you, feeling surrounded by warm-hearted warriors cuz of responses like yours.

030

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I went to ceremonies every year with my dad to honor your Grandfather and all the boys - they were just boys - who did not make it home. The only time I ever saw my dad cry was at one of those memorials.

150

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

They were all heros who fought off Nazis and left us a legacy to build from.

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I take this personally. My dad volunteered while imprisoned at Heart Mountain. He believed in a united front against facism. He was the only one of his squad to survive the war. The 100th was feted in deep red Texas by survivors of the Lost Battalion rescue, a heroic story now buried as “woke DEI”

5435711159

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Found myself in a red state at the doorway of a coffee shop with a sign welcoming trans people. I felt safe. Cis women are safer where trans people are safer - my body felt this before my analysis even kicked in.

0222

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Recycling signs from 2016, headed to Patsy Mink Statue.

Cardboard handwritten signs say: ready to fight back!; I took an oath to defend the constitution. We won’t go back!

160

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

People ask if I think stop shopping day is a good tactic. I don’t care. It’s good for the soul, and 2 actual people from radically different parts of my life asked me to join the boycott. So I’m in. Not one cent to corporate America!

090

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

So did I, when it was the only place in town that had eggs. End times.

010

marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I am alive because when I got cancer the evidence-based best practice was an extremely aggressive all-day surgery + chemo. Most people die from the type of cancer I had, and the doctors needed the research to justify the risk of such an aggressive approach. Cutting off research will kill people.

57010