traci kato-kiriyama
@traciakemitraci kato-kiriyama is a performer, actor, writer, author, educator, and art+community organizer who splits the time and space in her body feeling grounded in gratitude, inspired by audacity, and thoroughly insane—oft times all at once. She’s passionately invested in a number of projects that include Pull Project (PULL: Tales of Obsession); Generations Of War; The (title-ever-evolving) Nikkei Network for Gender and Sexual Positivity; Kizuna; Budokan of LA; and is the Director/Co-Founder of Tuesday Night Project and Co-Curator of its flagship “Tuesday Night Cafe.” She’s working on a second book of writing/poetry attuned to survival, slated for publication next year by Writ Large Press.
Updated August 2013
Stories from This Author
an homage for Yuri Kochiyama - read at the Los Angeles Memorial for Yuri on August 31, 2014
Sept. 19, 2014 • traci kato-kiriyama
an homage for Yuri… — You were the first stamp on the letter for the least likely to receive the last one to forget a face first finger at the light switch the last one to leave — countless many hold their “first time I met Yuri” story as if it happened yesterday before meeting her i didn’t understand the meaning of Star Struck until my bones shook and the skin on my arms shrieked the day she walked in from a …
Oldest-and-Still-Running-Asian-American Blah Blah Blah...
Aug. 16, 2013 • traci kato-kiriyama
If you’ve heard about a thing called “Tuesday Night Cafe” you might have heard this line: “We’re one of the longest-running, free, public art+community series in Downtown L.A. and the oldest-and-still-running Asian American-run open mic space in the country…” What does that even mean? After saying that at a recent TNC celebrating several kick ass LA-based AAPI LGBTIQ organizations, it made me pause and take a look back… I remember the word way back when —> They said J-Town was dying. …
