User:Ruthtk

Quick Facts

This user is or was a participant in Wiki Education's Scholars & Scientists Program.

Name: Ruth, Rue

Background: college-educated queer white American from California

Languages: English (native), Japanese (advanced), Bahasa Indonesia (Intermediate)

Spheres of Interest:

• LGBTQ+ history and figures, particularly pre-modern and non-western
• Japanese history & literature
• Social movements in Asia
• Indigenous history and figures in Asia

Current Focus: assisting with ongoing projects to translate JP wiki articles into English and update/supplement existing stubs

My Work

Articles I have put significant work into:

• Masako Togawa
• Teijo Nakamura
• Austrian Americans

To-Do List

In no particular order; this is as much for my own benefit as anyone else's.

Movements

• Kitchen/Daidokoro Haiku- early 20th c. japanese haiku movement begun in Hototogisu which encompassed mostly female poets writing about everyday life from a women's perspective
  • People: Nakamurai Teijo, Hoshino Tastuko

People

• Hashimoto Takako (橋本 多佳子)- poet, member of the 4T's. no existing wiki page in Eng
• Togawa Masako - mystery writer, club owner and LGBTQ+ activist in Tokyo. existing wiki needs updating/revising