Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (suggested donation $25).

Step 2: Register for “Reading Against Empire: A Reading Group” here.

How has our world been narrated to us by empire, and how can we speak back against those narratives? What anticolonial strategies for reading, writing, and being do these works cultivate in their attention to British, American, and Japanese imperial projects?

Join scholars Sam Ikehara and Nozomi Nakaganeku to read and discuss Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes, Dionne Brand's Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, Crystal Myun-hye Baik's Re-encounters: On the Korean War and Diasporic Memory Critique, and Wendy Matsumura's Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan’s Empire.

Participants will meet online across four sessions to discuss these books with one another, though there is no requirement to join every session. They are also encouraged to purchase copies of the texts from the Workshops4Gaza bookstore, where all proceeds are donated to a different Gaza initiative each month.

Sam Ikehara was born and raised in Oʻahu. Her research and activism emerge from her family's histories and experiences across multiple wars and empires in the Pacific Ocean, particularly the U.S. military occupations of Hawaiʻi and Okinawa.

Nozomi Nakaganeku-Saito is an Assistant Professor of English and Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies at Amherst College. Her research focuses on the impacts of US militarism and Japanese settler colonialism on Okinawa and the role of literature and storytelling in (re)shaping relations to land/air/sea by centering Indigenous perspectives.