Mostly Water

What are you?Human. Mostly water overflows through my eyes when I feel misunderstood.No, what are you?Mostly Water is a poetry collection born from years of navigating social norms that fail to capture what it means to be Mixed. Drawing on her lived experiences as a Black and Japanese person growing up between the U.S. and Japan, Aisha Fukushima explores what it means to live from mixed roots.Moving through her grandmother's kitchen, hair salons, and post-WWII Afro-Japanese histories, Fukushima challenges narrow frameworks around racial belonging. Here, abundance replaces the racialized math of halves and quarters. From microaggressions to quiet prayers, each stanza is a lyric within a larger freedom song.These poems are an opening - an offering for anyone who has ever searched for language spacious enough to hold who they truly are. We are, after all, mostly water - fluid, uncontainable, beyond measure.