Currently Browsing: Kiku Hughes
I’d heard about Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective from a few separate sources when it first opened, but didn’t get the chance to see it for myself until somewhere around the tail-end of 2025, when I happened to be writing an essay on Wilfredo Lam, and took a trip over to the Museum of Modern Art to visit their (also phenomenal!)… read more.
Welcome to Women’s History Month 2025:
To celebrate, we are reposting tributes to some of the Swans who have made the greatest impact on our own lives. These are names & faces everyone should know!
FF2 Guest Post by Joycelyn Ghansah
On February 19, 1942 – barely two months after the government of Japan executed the military attack on Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) which brought the USA into World War II – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.… read more.
Today is the third anniversary of the release of Displacement, a graphic novel exploring the ramifications of Japanese-American incarceration camps from the perspective of a young girl. It is an important narrative with a charming protagonist and beautiful graphics, created by Kiku Hughes.
Kiku Hughes is a cartoonist and illustrator based in Seattle, whose work often features sci-fi themes and queer and Asian-American characters and stories.… read more.