Tina Takemoto
“"Terminal Island, California was the location of a Japanese American fishing village in the Port of Los Angeles. In February 1942, less than a week after President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, Terminal Island residents were the first Japanese Americans to be forcibly evicted from their homes and imprisoned in US concentration camps.”
BIO
Tina Takemoto is an artist and scholar whose work explores Asian American queer history including the hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and queer sexuality for Japanese Americans incarcerated by the US government during World War II. Takemoto has received grants from Art Matters, ArtPlace, +LAB Artist Residency, the Fleishhacker Foundation, the James Irvine Foundation, and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
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