GBC member Sharyl Yamada-Oda remembers this historic Obon.

I think it also provides an opportunity for the alumni to continue developing the program into what they think would help future generations.even just with some of the past members of the legacy of the program.

Its amazing to see those parallels of how the community still always finds a way to stand together to protect our legacy businesses and really celebrate our culture and our identity that way.This was my first experience being around older Japanese American women whom I could really look up to because I never had role models like that growing up.but that was done away with years ago.

is the work of Aiko Dzikowski.also leave an impact on the younger generations as well.

and the shared experiences of a lot of Japanese American women.

The way that the community came back together: it’s very powerful and moving to understand how the community bounced back after that period of intense loss and injustice.there is a growing controversy over California Assembly Bill 715.

And goals of inclusivity stand in contrast to efforts to exclude people of color from exercising their political rights or becoming an American.forgotten or never even known? We saw the consequences of erasure during the pandemic.

the bills broad definitions resembled national discourse conflating critical portrayals of Israels past or current colonial exploits with antisemitism.we were portrayed as either the Perpetual Foreigner spreading the China virus or the successfully rich Model Minority who didnt suffer like everyone else.