Informationen zum Autor David Kam is a London-based Malaysian movement artist, speaker, researcher, facilitator and founder of kindredpacket. To him, movement - through a queering lens - can be a practice of resistance, relation, and reimagining. He develops and shares embodied practices of joy, care and freedom, moving communities towards reclaiming agency, celebrating expression and fostering collective wellbeing. Amy Phung is a writer, designer, speaker, community advocate and co-founder of besea.n, Britain's East and South East Asian Network. Informed through years of cross-community solidarity building and active bystander workshop facilitation, she aims to develop her practices for transformation through art, using creativity as means to reimagine and embody new futures. Mai-Anh Vu Peterson is a British Vietnamese, Edinburgh-based writer, strategist, facilitator and community organiser, and co-founder of the group Britain's East and South East Asian Network (besea.n). She writes about identity, activism and community building, and is an experienced speaker and facilitator of active bystander training, empowering communities to handle experiences of identity-based harm. Klappentext How do we organise through crisis? How do we move past anti-racism work that operates in isolation among different communities, towards sustainable action and solidarity? This exciting and ground-breaking work from grassroots organisers, David Kam, Amy Phung and Mai-Anh Vu Peterson, is dedicated to the stories and experiences of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities living in the UK today. Using qualitative methods, such as interviews, anecdotes and existing research, this book provides a critical examination of different aspects of ESEA presence in Britain, including identity, migration, activism and the pitfalls of representation. Through an accessible and grounded approach, this book sheds light on how issues of racism, capitalist structures and the challenges of organising have impeded community-building efforts. It aims to join together the dots across different ESEA communities, past, present and future, in order to work towards a UK-specific discourse that brings ESEA people into a wider discussion on solidarity. Zusammenfassung The first book from besea.n, a volunteer-led, community focused organisation whose mission is to empower, educate and embrace Ease and South East Asian (ESEA) communities in the UK. Finding our Place provides the social, political and historical context, intertwined with anecdotes and interviews from both the writers and various members of ESEA communities in the UK. ...

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How do we organise through crisis? How do we move past anti-racism work that operates in isolation among different communities, towards sustainable action and solidarity?

This exciting and ground-breaking work from grassroots organisers, David Kam, Amy Phung and Mai-Anh Vu Peterson, is dedicated to the stories and experiences of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) communities living in the UK today. Using qualitative methods, such as interviews, anecdotes and existing research, this book provides a critical examination of different aspects of ESEA presence in Britain, including identity, migration, activism and the pitfalls of representation. Through an accessible and grounded approach, this book sheds light on how issues of racism, capitalist structures and the challenges of organising have impeded community-building efforts. It aims to join together the dots across different ESEA communities, past, present and future, in order to work towards a UK-specific discourse that brings ESEA people into a wider discussion on solidarity.

Zusammenfassung
The first book from besea.n, a volunteer-led, community focused organisation whose mission is to empower, educate and embrace Ease and South East Asian (ESEA) communities in the UK. Finding our Place provides the social, political and historical context, intertwined with anecdotes and interviews from both the writers and various members of ESEA communities in the UK.