Yuriko Shikai addresses the gathering.

and allies under the same roof of JANM.Although my parents were clearly allies.

I had the opportunity to meet people who share similar intersecting identities with me.it can sometimes feel isolating and lonely being in predominantly hetero spaces.and generations share their stories.

10 to 12 at the Japanese American National Museum.and Conference Planning committee members who helped make the conference and other programming possible.

By JASMINE KONO-SONGEditors note: The Okaeri Conference was held Nov.

The conference opened with an unapologetically queer Friday night of drag bingo with Kristi Yummykochi.How can the FAA mitigate harm and negative impacts to an irreplaceable National-Register eligible site.

eight-foot high fence on the Tulelake airfield that occupies two-thirds of the Tule Lake concentration camp in Northern California where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during WWII.in 2024 the FAA and Modoc County resumed planning a security fence to protect the cropdusting airfield located in the middle of the Tule Lake concentration camp.

and a Japanese American WWII incarceration site that President Biden promised to protect? The only reasonable alternative is moving the Tulelake airfield from the concentration camp site to another.the Tule Lake Committee launched a campaign to Stop the Tulelake Airfield Fence.