Collected Item: “Emiko Yoshikami Oral History, 2022/03/09”
Title
Emiko Yoshikami
Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.
Kit Heintzman
Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.
Emiko Yoshikami
Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.
kheintzman@gmail.com
Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?
#apocalypse, #Asian, #AsianAmerican, #BIPOC, #Buddhist, #California, #CDC, #compassion, #disability, #Fauci, #fire, #guilt, #homebody, #interconnectivity, #lockdown, #love, #meditation, #mentalhealth, #mixedrace, #Oakland, #partnership, #police, #policebrutality, #queer, #race, #racism, #relationship, #SanFrancisco, #spirituality, #suicide, #whitelash, #wildfires
What is the format of your recording?
Video
In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.
Ohlone Land, Oakland, California
What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*
queer woman; she/they pronouns
What is the age of the interviewee?
35 to 44
How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*
mixed-race Japanese and white; of the U.S
Describe the oral history.
Some of the things we discussed included:
Being a homebody during a stay-at-home order
Spending more time with partner; emotional labor; support; going on walks
Roommates’ unsafe behavior during the pandemic and deciding to move out
Moving from San Francisco to Oakland during the pandemic
Changing ideas about masking and outdoor safety
Fear of getting others sick
Erring on the side of caution with incomplete information
Surrogate partnering; career
The need for radical change, individuals’ roles within the collective
California’s apocalyptic sky (9 September 2020)
Protesting during the pandemic: risk, social distancing, waking up
Health through the lens of disability justice
A feeling of great possibility during the pandemic
George Floyd, BLM, whitelashing
Isolation and suicide
Interconnectivity, Buddhist philosophy, agape love, meditation, both/and
Spiritual bypassing
Meditating over Zoom in multicultural and BIPOC groups
Taking long periods of silence and being with oneself weekly
Wanting a world with more love and more care; seeing into the sacred nature of one another
Other cultural references: East Bay Meditation Center, Lisa Ling, Mia Mingus’s writing (https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/), Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993), Zoom
See also:
http://www.healingintimacy.org
Being a homebody during a stay-at-home order
Spending more time with partner; emotional labor; support; going on walks
Roommates’ unsafe behavior during the pandemic and deciding to move out
Moving from San Francisco to Oakland during the pandemic
Changing ideas about masking and outdoor safety
Fear of getting others sick
Erring on the side of caution with incomplete information
Surrogate partnering; career
The need for radical change, individuals’ roles within the collective
California’s apocalyptic sky (9 September 2020)
Protesting during the pandemic: risk, social distancing, waking up
Health through the lens of disability justice
A feeling of great possibility during the pandemic
George Floyd, BLM, whitelashing
Isolation and suicide
Interconnectivity, Buddhist philosophy, agape love, meditation, both/and
Spiritual bypassing
Meditating over Zoom in multicultural and BIPOC groups
Taking long periods of silence and being with oneself weekly
Wanting a world with more love and more care; seeing into the sacred nature of one another
Other cultural references: East Bay Meditation Center, Lisa Ling, Mia Mingus’s writing (https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2022/01/16/you-are-not-entitled-to-our-deaths-covid-abled-supremacy-interdependence/), Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993), Zoom
See also:
http://www.healingintimacy.org
On what date did you record this oral history?
2022-03-09T13:43