Writing - Essays
Writing: selected essays
Opposing Militarism
Feminists Opposing Militarism: Creating Cultures of Life and Connectedness
In Deportate, esuli, profughe special issue on war in Ukraine. July 2022.
Demilitarization for Social Justice
In Feminist Formations, 30 (3), Special issue on feminist teaching for social justice (Winter 2018): 34-44. (pdf version)
Ecology and Feminism
Environmental Effects of U.S. Military Security: Gendered Experiences from the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan
In Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific: Method, practice, theory, edited by Kathy E. Ferguson and Monique Mironesco (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008: 294-317). (pdf version)
Ecofeminism and the Chicano Environmental Movement: Bridges Across Gender and Race
In Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive kin, edited by Devon G. Peña (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998: 177-200). (pdf version)
Standing on Solid Ground: Towards a Materialist Ecological Feminism
In Materialist Feminism: A Reader in class, difference, and women’s lives edited by Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham (New York: Routledge, 1997: 345-363). (pdf version)
Women's Peace Activism
When Is War Over? Women’s stories of healing and rebuilding after the war in El Salvador
In Gender, War and Militarism: Feminist perspectives edited by Laura Sjoberg and Sandra Via (Praeger Security Studies, 2010: 169-181). (pdf version)
Women Working across Borders for Peace and Genuine Security
In Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 22:2 (April 2010: 164-170)—with Ellen-Rae Cachola, LisaLinda Natividad, and María Reinat Pumarejo. (pdf version)
Contesting Militarization: Global Perspectives
In Security Disarmed: Critical perspectives on gender, race and militarization, edited by Barbara Sutton, Sandra Morgen and Julie Novkov (Rutgers University Press, 2008: 30-55). (pdf version)
Feminism and Militarism — Asia Pacific Region
Resisting U.S. bases in Okinawa, Foreign Policy in Focus, October 22, 2014—with Ayano Ginoza and Michiko Hase.
Disaster Militarism: Rethinking U.S. relief in the Asia Pacific, Foreign Policy in Focus, March 11, 2014—with Annie Isabel Fukushima, Ayano Ginoza, Michiko Hase, Deborah Lee and Taeva Shefler.
Military Sexual Violence: From frontline to fenceline, Foreign Policy in Focus, June 17, 2013—with Annie Isabel Fukushima.
Fortress Guam: Resistance to US military mega-buildup, The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Newsletter, May 10, 2010—with LisaLinda Natividad.
Making Connections: Building an East Asia-US Women’s Network Against US Militarism In The Women and War Reader, edited by Jennifer Turpin and Lois A. Lorentsen (New York: New York University Press, 1998: 308-322)—with Margo Okazawa-Rey. (pdf version)