User:Ruthtk

Quick Facts
Name: Ruth, Rue

Background: college-educated queer white American from California

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

Spheres of Interest:

Current Focus: assisting with ongoing projects to translate JP wiki articles into English and update/supplement existing stubs
 * LGBTQ+ history and figures, particularly pre-modern and non-western
 * Japanese history & literature
 * Social movements in Asia
 * Indigenous history and figures in Asia

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