JoinedOctober 12, 2022
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Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara is a Japanese-British-American community organiser and writer based in London. On top of the editorial and workshop facilitation work they do for shado, they organise with the immigration justice group SOAS Detainee Support to provide support and campaign for those victimised by borders and prisons. They have also found a home in the London-based collective ESEA Sisters, a community group providing spaces for East and South East Asian women, trans, non-binary and genderqueer folk to heal, create and connect with one another.
In conversation with Instituto Janeraka on their Refuge House and Artistic Residency as a structure of resistance for decolonisation and regeneration of ancestral relations
The Bibby Stockholm and Rwanda Plan are just the beginning. Activists, legal charities, and grassroots organisations expose how Offshore Detention policies are impacting migrants in the UK and what we can do to resist.
How grassroots legal education is responding to the collapse of the legal aid sector and expanding Hostile Environment by building sustainable communities of knowledge and radical solidarity at the local level.
Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara & Image: Heedayah Lockman
Maïa Barouh on her new album AÏDA and what it means to be “between”
Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara & Image: Alia Romagnoli
In conversation with Nicole Chui, Kimberley Cookey-Gam, and Kimran Rana
On the rise of warm banks, the current state of community organising and the role that organised religion contends to play in it.
Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara & Image: Cherie Kwok
In conversation with the cofounders of ESEA cinema advocacy group MilkTea on the transformative nuance of Broker and the radical potential of community film screenings.
Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara & Image: Wei Wu
In conversation with ESEA Life Drawing on communal art classes, bodily expression and reconnecting with our heritage
In conversation with Siobhán McGuirk on how Neoliberal Capitalism is driving the expansion of the migration industry, and where we could be headed
Isabella Yasmin Kajiwara & Image: Cherie Kwok
The threat to refugees and people seeking asylum and the importance of migrant justice groups fighting back against growing right wing hostility