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AUTHOR EVENT: Satsuki Ina , “The pOET AND the silk girl”

  • North Star Lounge 301 N. Fifth Avenue Ann Arbor United States (map)

Satsuki, a wonderful activist who was born in the Japanese American internment camps, is the author of this book--published last year:
"The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest"

Book description:
The Poet and the Silk Girl illustrates through one family's saga the generational struggle of Japanese Americans who resisted racist oppression, fought for the restoration of their rights, and clung to their full humanity in the face of adversity. With psychological insight, Ina excavates the unmentionable, recovering a chronicle of resilience amidst one of the severest blows to American civil liberties. As she traces the legacies of trauma, she connects her family's ordeal to modern-day mass incarceration at the U.S.-Mexico border. Lyrical and gripping, this cautionary tale implores us to prevent the repetition of atrocity, pairing healing and protest with galvanizing power. 

Satsuki currently works with other internment camp survivors to fight injustices such as family separation at the border. See https://tsuruforsolidarity.org/

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