Konrad Aderer
@konraderer.bsky.social
Nassau County, NY. Hapa yonsei. Filmmaker: They Took My Father Too, Resistance at Tule Lake, Enemy Alien
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Konrad Aderer
@konraderer.bsky.social
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We wrapped an ambitious day of production for They Took My Father Too, recreating scenes from the lost cinema culture of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
This is the story of a father's arrest under the Alien Enemies Act, but also the erasure of a vibrant Japanese American enclave. buff.ly/qnGjEv1
This is the story of a father's arrest under the Alien Enemies Act, but also the erasure of a vibrant Japanese American enclave. buff.ly/qnGjEv1
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We mourn the loss of historian Art Hansen. Thanks to @kenjitaguma.bsky.social for giving us a chance to remember him and his lifetime contributions. Subscribe to the Nichi Bei News.
November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We mourn the loss of historian Art Hansen. Thanks to @kenjitaguma.bsky.social for giving us a chance to remember him and his lifetime contributions. Subscribe to the Nichi Bei News.
This is part of my home office workshelf...you can kind of discern a pattern around what I'm most focused on :) #booksky #BookishQOTD
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is part of my home office workshelf...you can kind of discern a pattern around what I'm most focused on :) #booksky #BookishQOTD
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Cover reveal for my memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE from UW Press is now up at @discovernikkei.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Cover reveal for my memoir A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE from UW Press is now up at @discovernikkei.bsky.social
I'm proud of my NYC, and amazed at how far we've come since 9/11. I have to say I'm still nervous because all the anti-Muslim, white supremacist hate thrown at him is very much still around, percolating and scheming. But for now, I'm happy for this victory.
BREAKING: The people of New York City have elected Zohran Mamdani to be New York City's next Mayor, making him the first South Asian/Indian and first Muslim person to hold the position. This is a significant milestone for diversity in political leadership.
Mamdani Blazes Trail as New York’s First Muslim and South Asian Mayor-Elect
Zohran Mamdani’s ascent was powered by a relentless focus on affordability. Along the way, he energized South Asian and Muslim communities that rarely receive sustained attention from politicians.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I'm proud of my NYC, and amazed at how far we've come since 9/11. I have to say I'm still nervous because all the anti-Muslim, white supremacist hate thrown at him is very much still around, percolating and scheming. But for now, I'm happy for this victory.
On November 5, a chance to review how this particular community fought for redress for gross violations of constitutional rights, and won.
In 1981, over 750 Japanese American former incarcerees and descendants testified in public hearings about their experiences of forced removal and incarceration during World War II—many speaking out for the very first time.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On November 5, a chance to review how this particular community fought for redress for gross violations of constitutional rights, and won.
In the old days, warmongering GOP moves were couched in gravitas and reams of official justification. It was bullshit, but even bullshit legitimization, when based on international norms, had the grace of helping maintain those norms.
Now, war is waged with a smirk. This is a dangerous era.
Now, war is waged with a smirk. This is a dangerous era.
Pretty sure "attacking another country's military infrastructure within its own borders" has a name...
(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
@miamiherald.com
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In the old days, warmongering GOP moves were couched in gravitas and reams of official justification. It was bullshit, but even bullshit legitimization, when based on international norms, had the grace of helping maintain those norms.
Now, war is waged with a smirk. This is a dangerous era.
Now, war is waged with a smirk. This is a dangerous era.
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This city belongs to all of us. The ones who just got here, the ones who grew up here, the ones who never stop showing up for each other.
We protect New York because we love it. Join Hands Off NYC on October 29 to learn how we defend our city together.
🔗HandsOffNYC.com/call
We protect New York because we love it. Join Hands Off NYC on October 29 to learn how we defend our city together.
🔗HandsOffNYC.com/call
October 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This city belongs to all of us. The ones who just got here, the ones who grew up here, the ones who never stop showing up for each other.
We protect New York because we love it. Join Hands Off NYC on October 29 to learn how we defend our city together.
🔗HandsOffNYC.com/call
We protect New York because we love it. Join Hands Off NYC on October 29 to learn how we defend our city together.
🔗HandsOffNYC.com/call
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It’s Media Literacy Week (Oct 27–31)! At Densho, we believe that media literacy is essential to preserving memory, challenging bias, and ensuring that history is told with care and truth.
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s Media Literacy Week (Oct 27–31)! At Densho, we believe that media literacy is essential to preserving memory, challenging bias, and ensuring that history is told with care and truth.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - Tamiko Nimura seeks to highlight people who are resisting—through direct action, advocacy, arts and culture.
We Who Resist is a 6-essay series conversations with Nikkei individuals and organizations about their stories of resisting oppression.
We Who Resist is a 6-essay series conversations with Nikkei individuals and organizations about their stories of resisting oppression.
💡 Call for Nominations: “We Who Resist”
Send nominations by Dec 31, 2025, to [email protected], including:
* Name of person or organization
* Contact info (email/website)
* 2–3 sentences explaining why
Join us in honoring the courage of Nikkei resistance today!
Send nominations by Dec 31, 2025, to [email protected], including:
* Name of person or organization
* Contact info (email/website)
* 2–3 sentences explaining why
Join us in honoring the courage of Nikkei resistance today!
October 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - Tamiko Nimura seeks to highlight people who are resisting—through direct action, advocacy, arts and culture.
We Who Resist is a 6-essay series conversations with Nikkei individuals and organizations about their stories of resisting oppression.
We Who Resist is a 6-essay series conversations with Nikkei individuals and organizations about their stories of resisting oppression.
"I am both in mourning and angered that so many of our elders (and many of them long gone) devoted their lives trying to prevent what is happening now to vulnerable communities."
- @tamikonimura.bsky.social
- @tamikonimura.bsky.social
An elder once told Tamiko Nimura, “You can be a bridge between communities.” For her upcoming Discover Nikkei essay series, she will highlight Nikkei individuals and organizations actively resisting oppression today.
Read more: discovernikkei.org/e...
Post 2 (thread):
Read more: discovernikkei.org/e...
Post 2 (thread):
Introduction
Back in 2012, not long after I began writing for Discover Nikkei, I was at a Japanese American community event in Seattle. I met one of the event organizers and introduced myself. “Where are you in the community?” she asked. When the organizer asked that, I felt instantly ashamed, though I do not believe that …
discovernikkei.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"I am both in mourning and angered that so many of our elders (and many of them long gone) devoted their lives trying to prevent what is happening now to vulnerable communities."
- @tamikonimura.bsky.social
- @tamikonimura.bsky.social
The sites of Japanese American incarceration are administered by the National Park Service. The DOGE pillage and the regime's relentless "anti-DEI" attacks have endangered my community's work to preserve and interpret this history...so anyone with a stake or interest please tune in!
📢 Join us Mon, Nov 3 (5pm PT / 8pm ET) for “Advocacy Updates on Sacred Sites: A View from DC.”
Hear from community members on federal updates & community advocacy to protect Japanese American incarceration sites & other sacred places.
Register Now at: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Hear from community members on federal updates & community advocacy to protect Japanese American incarceration sites & other sacred places.
Register Now at: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The sites of Japanese American incarceration are administered by the National Park Service. The DOGE pillage and the regime's relentless "anti-DEI" attacks have endangered my community's work to preserve and interpret this history...so anyone with a stake or interest please tune in!
I interviewed Junko Kobayashi at the last Tule Lake Pilgrimage. Her foundational scholarship interprets Tessaku as a continuation of a Japanese-language literary movement that flowered in the U.S. in the years before World War II. buff.ly/s9igFod
October 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I interviewed Junko Kobayashi at the last Tule Lake Pilgrimage. Her foundational scholarship interprets Tessaku as a continuation of a Japanese-language literary movement that flowered in the U.S. in the years before World War II. buff.ly/s9igFod
This is really disheartening. NBCs Asian America team was really strong - they were crucial in the coverage of incarceration survivors leading a protest movement against family detention in 2018. Dedicated coverage of historically targeted groups is an important part of their moral leadership.
There will no longer be a dedicated editorial team for NBC Asian America. NBC has reportedly dissolved the editorial teams it had created to report on covering Black, Latino, Asian American, and LGBTQ+ communities.
asamnews.com/2025/10/15/p...
asamnews.com/2025/10/15/p...
NBC dismantles 'NBC Asian America' editorial team – AsAmNews
NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino, and NBC Out will no longer have dedicated editorial teams. 150 staffers have been laid off.
asamnews.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is really disheartening. NBCs Asian America team was really strong - they were crucial in the coverage of incarceration survivors leading a protest movement against family detention in 2018. Dedicated coverage of historically targeted groups is an important part of their moral leadership.
In a broad view this debate had heavy old v. young energy. Cuomo came off listless and out of touch. Both the older candidates struggled to understand many of the questions.
Mamdani not endorsing Gov. Hochul was ballsy - my take is it's his strong instinct to use every bit of his leverage.
Mamdani not endorsing Gov. Hochul was ballsy - my take is it's his strong instinct to use every bit of his leverage.
Zohran Mamdani, the favourite in the race to be elected mayor of New York, has faced off against his rivals in a televised debate. In a heated exchange over Israel’s war on Gaza, Mamdani said he was the first to call for a ceasefire and dismissed accusations of antisemitism.
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In a broad view this debate had heavy old v. young energy. Cuomo came off listless and out of touch. Both the older candidates struggled to understand many of the questions.
Mamdani not endorsing Gov. Hochul was ballsy - my take is it's his strong instinct to use every bit of his leverage.
Mamdani not endorsing Gov. Hochul was ballsy - my take is it's his strong instinct to use every bit of his leverage.
I'll admit it - the Dem attack android fills an emotional need of mine.
Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.
October 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'll admit it - the Dem attack android fills an emotional need of mine.
Just kids...stout, beardy 27-35 year-old kids blowing off steam, what's wrong with you?
October 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Just kids...stout, beardy 27-35 year-old kids blowing off steam, what's wrong with you?
Shortly before the pandemic I began my obsession with Tessaku ("Iron Fence"), the Japanese-language literary journal of Tule Lake Segregation Center...and last year I started production of film adaptation and hybrid documentary expanding on a 1944 short story from the second issue. buff.ly/LxiolpO
October 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Shortly before the pandemic I began my obsession with Tessaku ("Iron Fence"), the Japanese-language literary journal of Tule Lake Segregation Center...and last year I started production of film adaptation and hybrid documentary expanding on a 1944 short story from the second issue. buff.ly/LxiolpO
Before World War II, Japanese Americans saw many Japanese films at cinemas and community venues. Denise Khor's book Transpacific Convergences reveals this transnational public sphere of cinema and ideas across the Pacific, which we recreate in They Took My Father Too.
buff.ly/19Zg0dn
buff.ly/19Zg0dn
October 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Before World War II, Japanese Americans saw many Japanese films at cinemas and community venues. Denise Khor's book Transpacific Convergences reveals this transnational public sphere of cinema and ideas across the Pacific, which we recreate in They Took My Father Too.
buff.ly/19Zg0dn
buff.ly/19Zg0dn
All right mister smartypants, whadja get don witcha five hard drives plugged in all day?
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
All right mister smartypants, whadja get don witcha five hard drives plugged in all day?
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The latest tactic in Trump's cruel anti-immigrant agenda? Depriving people of life-saving medical care.
After being interrogated by CBP in an airport for five days, Paramjit Singh — a Sikh man from India battling a brain tumor and a heart condition — was rushed to the ER for a medical emergency.
After being interrogated by CBP in an airport for five days, Paramjit Singh — a Sikh man from India battling a brain tumor and a heart condition — was rushed to the ER for a medical emergency.
Paramjit Singh: Sikh man with brain tumour detained by US immigration
Paramjit Singh, an Indian passport holder, has lived in the US on a green card since 1994.
www.bbc.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The latest tactic in Trump's cruel anti-immigrant agenda? Depriving people of life-saving medical care.
After being interrogated by CBP in an airport for five days, Paramjit Singh — a Sikh man from India battling a brain tumor and a heart condition — was rushed to the ER for a medical emergency.
After being interrogated by CBP in an airport for five days, Paramjit Singh — a Sikh man from India battling a brain tumor and a heart condition — was rushed to the ER for a medical emergency.
Kenji Liu: "when we look at the ICE detention camps being built now, it’s not hard to draw a connection—between a presidential executive order and unchecked federal power. I think people forget that this happened to Japanese Americans—in Little Tokyo. (Los Angeles)"
Kristie Valdez-Guillen interviews artist Kenji Liu on his art, Los Angeles's Little Tokyo, and what he's working on now.
Art as Resistance: Kenji Liu on Little Tokyo, Memory, and Place-Based Practice
When the JANM staff reached out with the opportunity to interview Los Angeles artist Kenji C. Liu, as a lifelong Angeleno, I was excited to learn more about his Little Tokyo and El Sereno place-based art. Due to the military occupation and federal raids seizing Los Angeles at the time of this interview, we decided …
discovernikkei.org
October 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Kenji Liu: "when we look at the ICE detention camps being built now, it’s not hard to draw a connection—between a presidential executive order and unchecked federal power. I think people forget that this happened to Japanese Americans—in Little Tokyo. (Los Angeles)"
Talk of Asian immigration as an "invasion" dominated politics in the early 20th century. But folks eager to see Asians locked up en masse had to wait for an actual war to trigger the Alien Enemies Act. Now we have a gov't willing to reinvent words like "invasion" and "insurrection."
buff.ly/hiOOOcz
buff.ly/hiOOOcz
October 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Talk of Asian immigration as an "invasion" dominated politics in the early 20th century. But folks eager to see Asians locked up en masse had to wait for an actual war to trigger the Alien Enemies Act. Now we have a gov't willing to reinvent words like "invasion" and "insurrection."
buff.ly/hiOOOcz
buff.ly/hiOOOcz
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A clipping from my research around U.S. Japanese-language literature, which I'm excavating and reimagining as a filmmaker. Scholars of Japanese diasporas from Yuji Ichioka to Duncan Ryuken Williams have worked to free Asian American history from assimilationist biases. buff.ly/4LI028A
October 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A clipping from my research around U.S. Japanese-language literature, which I'm excavating and reimagining as a filmmaker. Scholars of Japanese diasporas from Yuji Ichioka to Duncan Ryuken Williams have worked to free Asian American history from assimilationist biases. buff.ly/4LI028A
Y'know, having Drumph in charge is going to make certain people loads and loads of money. And the wealthiest in the world will be like 3 of the worst possible people.
October 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Y'know, having Drumph in charge is going to make certain people loads and loads of money. And the wealthiest in the world will be like 3 of the worst possible people.