We lost a warrior, a freedom fighter, a visionary, someone who changed the way I see the world. May Assata Shakur rest in power with the ancestors!

Confirmed: Assata Shakur has joined the ancestors.

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Excited for this @wordsoftype.com conversation today about academic research in typography!!! 🙌🏽

Please submit testimony in strong support of Resolution 234-25, requesting that the U.S. military CEASE ALL BOMBING AND DESECRATION activities at Pōhakuloa, reject land swaps and lease renewals without strict stipulations, and conduct a full Ka Pa‘akai Analysis of the area.

So grateful for #KnuthBigelowIncubator and all people who are working for our languages to thrive! Stay tuned for the 2026 KBI Call for Applications! #TypeDesign #LanguageJustice

Given how cost is often a barrier for designers, programs such as #KnuthBigelowIncubator that provide access to tools and resources to students across the world for free are so essential if we are really to work towards design justice.

In addition to full scholarships, #KnuthBigelowIncubator provided all students with a yearlong membership to Letterform Archive, one-year Adobe Creative Cloud licenses, and a one-year Glyphs license.

As part of the #KnuthBigelowIncubator Southeast Asian scripts cohort, I learned to design a typeface for my Indigenous heritage language, Mon. Over five weeks, I joined 23 fellow students from across the world for twice-weekly sessions— fully funded via scholarships!

I’m honored to share that I’ve completed the inaugural Donald Knuth & Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator (KBI) course. KBI is a groundbreaking program launched by @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social, @letterformarchive.org, and @wordsoftype.com! 🙌🏽 #TypeDesign #LanguageJustice #KBI #KnuthBigelowIncubator

Stay safe, Hawaiʻi fam!!! 🙏🏾 static.pdc.org/tsunami/inde...

"...it is the result of domestic political decisions on both sides, decisions that ultimately amount to a war on the poor, regardless of which side of the border they are from. In this conflict, peace is the only class based solution."

It's been really busy but I am so grateful to be able to do research in service of social movements. The work continues.

And also doing my final presentation for the Knuth–Bigelow Type Design Incubator (will be showing initial progress on my Mon language typeface) next week, while at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference!

Conference run this month:
"For Whom Are Indigenous Southeast Asian Studies?" at the Decolonizing Southeast Asian Studies Conference
[Title Redacted 😉] at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference
"Red Scare Settler Colonialism" at the Historical Materialism Conference in East and Southeast Asia
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"We are not American. We are not American. We are not American. Say it in your heart. Say it when you sleep. We are not American. We will die as Hawaiians." — Haunani-Kay Trask ✊🏽❤️ Scenes from The Centennial. Nā Maka O ka ʻĀina Prod. DVD. 1993. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDsx...

Honored to be selected for the Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator, as part of the SEA scripts cohort! I will be working on a digital typeface for Mon. Dharnk goon to my friend & type design teacher Cris Hernández for encouraging me to apply! letterformarchive.org/news/the-knu...

Starting tomorrow! If you’ll be at @socialismconference.org, come through to some of these sessions featuring IC team members. We’ve listed them all (+ related resources) here: bit.ly/ICNews47

If you can’t make it in person, check out virtual sessions: socialismconference.org/virtual-prog...

So humbled to learn from so many inspiring research collaborators! Here is the StoryMap I made for our final presentation at Chiang Mai University on June 26! arcg.is/14i4O90

Just wrapped up 5 weeks of the 2025 LuceSEA Environmental Transitions Field School in Chiang Mai, including 13 days of fieldwork in Ban Huay E Kang, where I researched how Pga K'nyau women transmit and mobilize de paw thoo (umbilical cord tree) knowledge to access forest resources!

Upcoming Zoom webinar co-sponsored by the JSEALab and the Southeast Asia Coalition on Academic Freedom (SEACAF)!

RESISTING THREATS: Defending Academic Freedom in Southeast Asia

Monday, 5 May, 8-10 pm, CDT/Madison
Tuesday, 6 May, 8-10 am, ICT/Bangkok

Register: bit.ly/4juaOmu

Congratulations!!! So well-deserved!!! 🎉

On 30 April 1975, Vietnam's National Liberation Front defeated the invading US forces, paving the road to the reunification of Vietnam, and liberating its people from over a century of imperialist rule.