Brandon Shimoda
@brandonshimoda.bsky.social
There's only one reason to be on social media at this point: gazafunds.com
My book The Afterlife Is Letting Go came out 1 year ago today.
Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful.
The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M
Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful.
The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M
December 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My book The Afterlife Is Letting Go came out 1 year ago today.
Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful.
The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M
Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful.
The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M
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3 months ago, I bought a water truck (1000+ gallons) for a community in Gaza. I've been raising funds since, to keep the water deliveries steady. The community remains in desperate need—of water, plus funds for food, tents, blankets. Message me if you're interested in donating.
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
3 months ago, I bought a water truck (1000+ gallons) for a community in Gaza. I've been raising funds since, to keep the water deliveries steady. The community remains in desperate need—of water, plus funds for food, tents, blankets. Message me if you're interested in donating.
Meet Maggie's pigeons (keep scrolling down):
December 8, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Meet Maggie's pigeons (keep scrolling down):
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if you're interested in covering THE HUNGERING YEARS, a debut collection by a palestinian writer abt friendship & food & art & obsession, pls reach out to me or my publisher (editors at hostpublications dot com) 👼
you can now pre-order THE HUNGERING YEARS, out from
@hostpublications.bsky.social
2.24.26 💜🌻 hostpublications.com/collections/...
@hostpublications.bsky.social
2.24.26 💜🌻 hostpublications.com/collections/...
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
if you're interested in covering THE HUNGERING YEARS, a debut collection by a palestinian writer abt friendship & food & art & obsession, pls reach out to me or my publisher (editors at hostpublications dot com) 👼
Trees, poetic hemorrhage, eating breath / Books I read in 2025, the second post of my newsletter, Vanishing Clarity: t.ly/ihbDL
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Trees, poetic hemorrhage, eating breath / Books I read in 2025, the second post of my newsletter, Vanishing Clarity: t.ly/ihbDL
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Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE – Spectre Journal
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
spectrejournal.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter:
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...
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Happy pub day to Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social now available on the Noemi website!
Be sure to check out Raquel's interview with Caroline Tracey for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social also out today:
www.theborderchronicle.com/p/a-border-w...
Be sure to check out Raquel's interview with Caroline Tracey for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social also out today:
www.theborderchronicle.com/p/a-border-w...
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Happy pub day to Southwest Reconstruction by @raquefella.bsky.social now available on the Noemi website!
Be sure to check out Raquel's interview with Caroline Tracey for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social also out today:
www.theborderchronicle.com/p/a-border-w...
Be sure to check out Raquel's interview with Caroline Tracey for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social also out today:
www.theborderchronicle.com/p/a-border-w...
Coming soon @blacklawrence.bsky.social:
@sunyungshin.bsky.social's Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language — the inaugural selection of the Immigrant Writers on Immigrant Writing Series
May 2026: t.ly/5GHw9
@sunyungshin.bsky.social's Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language — the inaugural selection of the Immigrant Writers on Immigrant Writing Series
May 2026: t.ly/5GHw9
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Coming soon @blacklawrence.bsky.social:
@sunyungshin.bsky.social's Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language — the inaugural selection of the Immigrant Writers on Immigrant Writing Series
May 2026: t.ly/5GHw9
@sunyungshin.bsky.social's Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language — the inaugural selection of the Immigrant Writers on Immigrant Writing Series
May 2026: t.ly/5GHw9
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Kyo Maclear and @brandonshimoda.bsky.social bond over their quest to understand what it means to grow, parent, and exist within the many layers of self. . . . on BRICK Literary's "Writer to Writer" podcast bit.ly/3KwFRls
Shimoda is the author of THE AFTERLIFE IS LETTING GO (City Lights Dec 2024)
Shimoda is the author of THE AFTERLIFE IS LETTING GO (City Lights Dec 2024)
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Kyo Maclear and @brandonshimoda.bsky.social bond over their quest to understand what it means to grow, parent, and exist within the many layers of self. . . . on BRICK Literary's "Writer to Writer" podcast bit.ly/3KwFRls
Shimoda is the author of THE AFTERLIFE IS LETTING GO (City Lights Dec 2024)
Shimoda is the author of THE AFTERLIFE IS LETTING GO (City Lights Dec 2024)
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Border Patrol has raided the @nomoredeaths.bsky.social humanitarian aid camp several times in the past, but this is the first time volunteers have witnessed agents enter structures without a warrant, marking a significant escalation in the agency’s cruel and illegal conduct at the border.
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Border Patrol has raided the @nomoredeaths.bsky.social humanitarian aid camp several times in the past, but this is the first time volunteers have witnessed agents enter structures without a warrant, marking a significant escalation in the agency’s cruel and illegal conduct at the border.
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🚨 On Sunday, November 23, U.S. Border Patrol illegally entered the No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station and arrested three people who were receiving aid, without a warrant.
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🚨 On Sunday, November 23, U.S. Border Patrol illegally entered the No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid station and arrested three people who were receiving aid, without a warrant.
The final word of James Baldwin's No Name in the Street, which I read for the sixth time this morning, is: Ghost.
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The final word of James Baldwin's No Name in the Street, which I read for the sixth time this morning, is: Ghost.
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Ty Brandon! If a poster w/animals and blankets isn’t your thing, TWO of Brandon’s books are available for purchase in our online bookstore (linking below). Proceeds also to Sameer’s Give Warmth to Gaza campaign!
Donate to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's "Blanket Friday Drive," collecting funds for The Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign to provide urgently needed blankets, waterproof tarps, tents, warm clothes to families in Gaza to protect against harsh winter conditions: t.ly/_spUL
[W4G] Blanket Friday Drive
W4G's 2026 Blanket Friday campaign is collecting funds for The Sameer Project's "GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" campaign! Winter rainfall is here, temperatures are dropping, and families are still without shelt...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Ty Brandon! If a poster w/animals and blankets isn’t your thing, TWO of Brandon’s books are available for purchase in our online bookstore (linking below). Proceeds also to Sameer’s Give Warmth to Gaza campaign!
Donate to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's "Blanket Friday Drive," collecting funds for The Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign to provide urgently needed blankets, waterproof tarps, tents, warm clothes to families in Gaza to protect against harsh winter conditions: t.ly/_spUL
[W4G] Blanket Friday Drive
W4G's 2026 Blanket Friday campaign is collecting funds for The Sameer Project's "GIVE WARMTH TO GAZA" campaign! Winter rainfall is here, temperatures are dropping, and families are still without shelt...
t.ly
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Donate to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social's "Blanket Friday Drive," collecting funds for The Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign to provide urgently needed blankets, waterproof tarps, tents, warm clothes to families in Gaza to protect against harsh winter conditions: t.ly/_spUL
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In 2019, a group of Japanese American activists came to the offices of a group complicit in the incarceration of migrants hoping to confront one of their own: the CEO is herself the offspring of migrants sent to internment camps during WWII.
Back from the Underworld | Brandon Shimoda
“Your use of your history to shield yourself is a betrayal. You have a lot of healing to do for yourself and for the harm you have caused.”
thebaffler.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:57 PM
In 2019, a group of Japanese American activists came to the offices of a group complicit in the incarceration of migrants hoping to confront one of their own: the CEO is herself the offspring of migrants sent to internment camps during WWII.
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"Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
Disabled people around the world are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza."
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Disabled people around the world are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza."
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Crips for eSims for Gaza
Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
chuffed.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Crips for eSims for Gaza is a collaboration between Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Alice Wong.
Disabled people around the world are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza."
chuffed.org/project/crip...
Disabled people around the world are raising funds to get as many eSims as we can into Gaza."
chuffed.org/project/crip...
I couldn't sleep last night so I started a substack:
brandonshimoda.substack.com/p/vanishing-clarity
brandonshimoda.substack.com/p/vanishing-clarity
Vanishing Clarity
an introduction to a festival of the dead as occasional writing
brandonshimoda.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I couldn't sleep last night so I started a substack:
brandonshimoda.substack.com/p/vanishing-clarity
brandonshimoda.substack.com/p/vanishing-clarity
Marcia Douglas, from The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs @ndbooks.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Marcia Douglas, from The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs @ndbooks.bsky.social
New @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social: Samer Abu Hawwash's Ruins and Other Poems, translated from the Arabic by @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social: t.ly/zGd5r
Samer Abu Hawwash - Ruins and Other Poems — WORLD POETRY
SAMER ABU HAWWASH RUINS and OTHER POEMS Translated from Arabic by HUDA J. FAKHREDDINE
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social: Samer Abu Hawwash's Ruins and Other Poems, translated from the Arabic by @hudafakhreddine.bsky.social: t.ly/zGd5r
3 months ago, I bought a water truck (1000+ gallons) for a community in Gaza. I've been raising funds since, to keep the water deliveries steady. The community remains in desperate need—of water, plus funds for food, tents, blankets. Message me if you're interested in donating.
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
3 months ago, I bought a water truck (1000+ gallons) for a community in Gaza. I've been raising funds since, to keep the water deliveries steady. The community remains in desperate need—of water, plus funds for food, tents, blankets. Message me if you're interested in donating.
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...
chuffed.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...
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So timely. But it shouldn't have to be timely for these stories to matter. I just registered.
Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com).
Register here: t.ly/HT233
Register here: t.ly/HT233
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So timely. But it shouldn't have to be timely for these stories to matter. I just registered.