New dad / new prof. So-so at both. Thinking about militarism, community, and the city.https://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3mpd3uqb6mk2whttps://fpif.org/islands-of-peace/28 Jun 2026 04:05 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpd3uqb6mk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3moocodbnck2gYou Cannot Swallow a Needle, However Small: Okinawa’s Sculptor of Resistance https://thetricontinental.org/art-bulletin-okinawas-sculptor-of-resistance19 Jun 2026 21:41 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3moocodbnck2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3momacvax2223Huge congrats to old colleagues/friends at @uhmanoa.bsky.social planning and Hawaiian Studies on launching this Indigenous Planning Certificate!! https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2026/06/16/ka-wai-ola-indigenous-planning-grad-certificate/19 Jun 2026 01:54 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3momacvax2223https://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3mnxnofg7zs2s"targets were listed in Excel. PowerPoint was for mapping network connections. Word was for writing things up...as one artillery officer later told Manson “We’ve killed more people on Office than you’d ever imagine”—but precision munitions were only precise if you knew precisely where to point them" https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-project-maven-put-ai-into-the-kill-chain10 Jun 2026 21:27 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnxnofg7zs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3mnxnbidpts2oIt was a pleasure to contribute to this special issue of Amerasia Journal, "Assemblages of Asian Settler Colonial Critique." In my piece I trace the dual-colonial origins of dispossession in postwar Okinawa. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00447471.2025.2570053?scroll=top&needAccess=true10 Jun 2026 21:20 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnxnbidpts2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3mnsdpdlno22tLand lease regimes are farces drummed up by cold-war strategists to effect dispossession without purchase. Appearances be damned - overt imperialism is back on the menu. If the US finds a path to purchasing Chagos, indigenous Chagossians' will be forever exiles. Fck the military, down with all bases https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/06/07/white-house-plan-chagos-islands/08 Jun 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnsdpdlno22thttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3mnd553nox22iHappening tonight! Beyond Recognition: The Power of Refusal in Ainu and Uchinānchu Homelands.02 Jun 2026 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnd553nox22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3mnai35nqns2zExcellent essay by Kozue Uehara! "You cannot be a centipede by yourself...You have to consider the pace of the people in front and behind you, and by doing so, you can disrupt the coercive, disciplinary sense of time imposed by the state." https://www.counterwinds.net/lets-walk-as-the-legs-of-a-centipede/01 Jun 2026 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnai35nqns2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3mmu4l2pfj224https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/25/cancel-rimpac-2026/27 May 2026 18:18 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmu4l2pfj224https://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3m6ucyqvu6k2t'The use of military bases for immigrant detention is nothing new...but the land Camp East Montana sits on has its own sordid histories of occupation, dispossession, and militarization' https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/profiting-in-nowhereland/30 Nov 2025 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ucyqvu6k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3m4e25fuk7s2k"How do you train young men to do the work more easily done by fiends?" Doug Lummis speaking from Okinawa https://youtu.be/-CGDj_xHNX4?si=uvskn49FxoUWrl5N29 Oct 2025 18:08 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4e25fuk7s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3m3lrucmme22gThe quiet part: "there's a place where live fire training over innocent civilians is entirely acceptable...it's just not here" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/camp-pendleton-marines-artillery-freeway/20 Oct 2025 02:36 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3lrucmme22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3m36zu5pj722uThe climate record in song! https://gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/251/2025/?fbclid=IwT01FWANbzbNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHlljDoh89h5l5XRnAmfBWkVlTwZIkZjcI5E27ABnN36ZpcHcgWTimJfuIFKz_aem_rGY-9kOF9HOzPMXNQ9Aubg15 Oct 2025 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3m36zu5pj722uhttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3lkbknx3ow226https://theintercept.com/2025/03/10/pentagon-spending-golf-courses-trump-budget-cuts-elon-musk-doge/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter13 Mar 2025 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkbknx3ow226https://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3liovyz25vc2vJust back from the 11th East Asian Conference in Alternative Geographies on "territorial Justice" and my head is still spinning. Such a joy reconnecting with old relations and making new friends. I'm grateful to all the incredible speakers keeping justice and criticality at the center!21 Feb 2025 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3liovyz25vc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3lfpyra343c2jhttps://capitalandmain.com/as-los-angeles-burns-immigrants-mobilize14 Jan 2025 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfpyra343c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/diwama.bsky.social/post/3lfdwp4s6lk2cNext Monday, live in Okinawa and remote via Zoom. "Connecting the Dots of Colonialism and Militarism in Okinawa and Beyond." Looks excellent!10 Jan 2025 00:27 +0000at://did:plc:aet2qjvr4csdwds7eg3ugph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfdwp4s6lk2c