About

Setsu Shigematsu is a mother of two children and an Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside. Her intellectual and scholarly concerns include the relationship of US and Japanese imperialism, gendered state violence, transnational liberation movements, comparative feminist theory and cultural studies. She is the author of Scream from the Shadows: the Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan, and the director of

Re-Visions of Abolition (2011/2021), a documentary film about the prison industrial complex and the prison abolition movement. She is also co-editor of Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific.

 
Professor Setsu Shigematsu with her daughter at an event at the UC Riverside Botanical Gardens to celebrate the launch of the next story in the Guardian Princesses book series titled Princess Leilani and the Lanu Tree.
Setsu Shigematsu sits on all-women panel to discuss the musical adaption of her book, Princess Ten Ten & the Dark Skies.
Setsu Shigematsu sits with community members at Earth Day event.
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Professor Setsu Shigematsu giving a presentation about the Guardian Princesses to students at Cal Poly Pomona
Setsu Shigematsu reads to classroom for Guardian Princesses event.
Professor Setsu Shigematsu welcoming guests to a launch event at the UCR Botanical Gardens for the next story in the Guardian Princesses book series titled Princess Leilani and the Lanu Tree.