Jenni “Emiko” Kuida
Jenni “Emiko” Kuida foi coautora do original “101 maneiras de saber se você é nipo-americano” com Tony Osumi. Atualmente, ela é gerente de subsídios no Centro Comunitário e Juvenil de Koreatown e membro do conselho dos Serviços Comunitários Nipo-Americanos e do Conselho Juvenil de Veneza. Seus hobbies incluem jardinagem, ir a obons e jogar Pokémon Go.
Atualizado em agosto de 2017
Stories from This Author
Cercar, em dança
17 de Agosto de 2017 • Maiya Kuida-Osumi , Jenni “Emiko” Kuida , Tony Osumi , Evelyn Yoshimura , traci kato-kiriyama
No Nikkei Uncovered deste mês, damos adeus à temporada de Obon com reflexões especiais de uma família de ativistas/artistas e de uma lenda local e organizadora comunitária. Maiya, Jenni e Tony Kuida-Osumi compartilham conosco poemas que ligam a dança que fazemos em comemoração aos ancestrais em Obon, com homenagem em ação à comunidade, à nossa luta compartilhada, a Los Angeles. Evelyn Yoshimura nos traz um breve ensaio refletindo sobre o desapego e as imagens que brotam da própria dança. Esperamos …
O reassentamento Okazaki-Kuida
20 de Abril de 2015 • Jenni “Emiko” Kuida
Meus pais eram crianças pequenas quando a EO 9066 foi assinada. Minha mãe, Machiko Okazaki, morou em quatro lugares dos quatro aos sete anos de idade. Autódromo de Santa Anita. Montanha do Coração, Wyoming. Cidade de Cristal, Texas. Fazendas Seabrook, Nova Jersey. O meu avô, Masashi Bancho Okazaki, ministro de Tenrikyo, foi separado da família devido à sua ocupação como ministro. Ele se reuniu com minha avó e seus cinco filhos em Crystal City em 1944. Sua filha Sumi, de …
Channeling Grandma: Passing on the Gardening Genes
14 de Março de 2014 • Jenni “Emiko” Kuida
I remember walking through my Grandma Kuida’s garden as a child. She had ten or twelve rows of different vegetables growing, and lots of old rusty cans and tools. Along with a bountiful lemon tree, her small backyard garden near Crenshaw and Jefferson was filled with delicious tomatoes, Japanese cucumbers, and zucchinis. When she hunched over with her apron full of fresh-picked vegetables to send home with us, she was 4½ feet tall. But to me, she was a gardening …
Kindergactivism, is that a word?
29 de Fevereiro de 2012 • Jenni “Emiko” Kuida
Some people say that if you bring kids to a political rally, that it’s not age appropriate. Well, we’ve been bringing Maiya to community events since she was two weeks old (Day of Remembrance commemorating the anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 in 1942, which led to the incarceration of 110,000 Japanese Americans, including my parents as children and Tony’s grandparents), and her first of 6 annual trips to the Manzanar Pilgrimage was when she was 14 months …
Seabrook Farms 1945... Thai Garment Workers 1995
20 de Fevereiro de 2012 • Jenni “Emiko” Kuida
Ask any Japanese American enough questions, and you’ll invariably find out that you’re somehow related. You learn that your second cousin went to school with so-and-so’s neighbor, or your friend’s great-uncle used to golf with your dad. It seems like we’re always looking for those ties that bind us together as a community. A common question we JAs often ask is “What Camp were you, your parents, or grandparents in?” In my case, my mom’s family went from Santa Anita …
My Surreal Life Experience: Stand Up for Justice
14 de Fevereiro de 2012 • Jenni “Emiko” Kuida
Despite how annoying it is, reality TV is here to stay. I admit that I’ve been watching episodes of “The Surreal Life.” It’s the show that joins 6 semi-celebrities in a mansion with lots of alcohol, innuendo and modern furniture. In November 2002, I joined 100 others as extras in the film project “Stand Up for Justice” in our own kind of surreal life experience, Japanese American style. Produced and presented by Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR) and …
Mitsugi's Christmas
24 de Dezembro de 2011 • Jenni “Emiko” Kuida
This story is dedicated to my Japanese grandfathers. Keiichi Kuida and Yoshio Osumi who I never met, and Masashi Bancho Okazaki, who I wish I could remember. Mitsugi Yamamoto stared out the window on Christmas Day and wished that his daughter Lorraine would come to visit him at the Keiro Retirement Home. It had been years since her last visit. Mitsugi could still remember how excited he and his wife Sumiko were when Lorraine, their only child was born almost …
