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Ya girl in the News:
UPCOMING EVENT:
May 10, 2025, 11:00 AM - THE GATE OF MEMORY x MATA ASHITA ONLINE READING LAUNCH EVENT. RSVP here to attend!
April 1, 2025: The Gate of Memory from Haymarket Books released April 1, 2025!
March 27, 2025: Ya girl in L.A. reading at the Japanese American National Museum! AWP Offsite Reading
February 13, 2025: Games and Social Justice Lecture Series - Tarot and Social Justice with Laura Fukumoto
April 23, 2024: “Community Fund Arts Recipients Announced” - Japanese Canadian Legacies Society
August 20, 2024: “More than 100 people at Obon ceremony at former Tashme internment site in Sunshine Valley” - The Hope Standard
February 3, 2023: “Extra Mile: Stories about going over and above” - Story Collider Podcast
July 13, 2022: "At QAF, Everything is sex, except sex, which is power” - The Ubyssey
September 16, 2019: “Vancouver Fringe Festival announces Pick of the Fringe lineup” - The Georgia Straight
September 13, 2019: “Where the Quiet Queers Are breaks through the fourth wall” - Vancouver is Awesome
May 12, 2019: “The Suitcase Project Personalizes History Of Japanese Internment” - Huffington Post
June 28, 2018: “It could happen today. These photos imagine Japanese internment in 2018” - CBC
June 15, 2018: “The Suitcase Project immerses portrait subjects in contemporary Japanese Canadian internment predicament” - The Georgia Straight
UBC Tarot Lecture, February 2025, Games and Social Justice Lecture series
Mending Circle, co-written by Laura Fukumoto and Carolyn Nakagawa. Powell Street Festival Telethon, 2020, and reimagined at The Langham Cultural Centre in Kaslo, BC, 2022. Click through to Youtube.
Mending Circle, co-written by Laura Fukumoto and Carolyn Nakagawa. Envision Festival 2019, Powell Street Festival Telethon, 2020, and The Langham Cultural Centre in Kaslo, BC, 2022.
Vines Festival: Our Stories Embodied, 2021. Click through to Youtube.
Cinephiles curated by Mily Mumford, 2020.
Vancouver Outsiders Arts Festival 2022.
Re-Pronunciation, a literary reading by Yonsei Women Writers. Powell Street Festival, 2019.
Emceeing the Diamond Stage and SUMO FUN CLUB at The 46th Annual Powell Street Festival, 2022. Click through to Youtube.
Queerotica, Queer Arts Festival 2022.
