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The #KAAAR Fundraiser is LIVE!

2/26/2021

 
Four books by Traci Chee lined up in a row: We Are Not Free, The Reader, The Speaker, The Storyteller
The Kidlit Against Anti-Racism Auction Fundraiser is LIVE! 📣 I’m donating a signed hardcover of #WeAreNotFree and a signed paperback set of #TheReaderTrilogy! It’s been difficult to get out there and sign books during the pandemic, so this will be one of few signed copies of We Are Not Free out there in the world! ✍🏼 Go here to bid on this book bundle, and check out the many other wonderful offerings of signed books, query & manuscript critiques, calls with editors & literary agents, and more! All proceeds will go to Stop AAPI Hate & Hate Is A Virus, two organizations that work to end anti-Asian racism and racism of all kinds.

Kidlit Against Anti-AAPI Racism Auction Fundraiser

2/24/2021

 
blue and white graphic for Kidlit Against Anti-AAPI Racism Auction Fundraiser, Feb. 26-28
I’m donating a signed copy of WE ARE NOT FREE and a signed set of THE READER TRILOGY to the Kidlit Against Anti-AAPI Racism Fundraiser (#KAAAR). Bid on my item & more via the #KAAAR website from Fri, 2/26 to Sun, 2/28. All proceeds are directed to Stop AAPI Hate & Hate is a Virus to fight Anti-AAPI violence!

Day of Remembrance

2/19/2021

 
Today is Day of Remembrance. On this day, February 19, in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for the mass incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry in World War II. This morning, I’d like to share some of my memories of learning more about the incarceration with you:
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1. Tule Lake Segregation Center (2019): This was the third incarceration site I ever visited, on the California/Oregon border. Although much of the site has been lost to modern development, some of the original buildings, barbed wire fencing, and the jail (under the awning in the photo), built in 1945, remain.
A memorial plaque on a dry grassy plain with a squat concrete building beneath an awning and a rugged mountain in the background
2. Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds (2019): Near the former incarceration site at Tule Lake is a museum at the Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds. The museum is fairly small, but most striking to me was seeing one of the original guard towers in the yard. My step-grandparents were imprisoned at Tule Lake—I can’t help wondering if this was one of the guard towers they passed every day, on their way to the mess hall or to school.
A view of a wooden guard tower from below against a vivid blue sky
3. Central Utah Relocation Center, also known as Topaz (2007): My mom and aunt took me on my first pilgrimage to Topaz back in 2007. This is me standing in the site of my grandpa’s old barracks. This was where he lived. For three years, with these strange horizons, behind barbed wire, this was where he lived. Photo by Kats Kitagawa.
A small female figure in pink standing beside a cracked concrete slab in a scrubby high desert location
4. Central Utah Relocation Center, also known as Topaz (c. 1942-1945): This is my grandpa and his family at the very same barracks during the incarceration. Because most cameras were confiscated after the attack on Pearl Harbor, we don’t have a lot of photographs from inside the camps, but there are a few, and they are precious—glimpses of these hard years, these injustices. I haven’t forgotten, family. I hope we never forget.
A black and white photo of a Japanese American family sitting on a handmade bench outside of a tar-paper barrack with a potted dead tree behind them

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