Community Change: Resources and Protest.
An absolute honour to announce this event with MeToo Asians, Asian Voices Europe and Shiori Ito on the 29th January 2022. It has been months in the making, making schedules line-up and thinking of the safest and most comfortable way for us to have such a vital conversation.
Join us at 13:00 CET, 12:00 GMT / 21:00 JST for one hour to hear award-winning journalist Shiori Ito, community innovators MeTooAsians and Asian Voices Europe on a panel on the different ways we can affect change and alternative forms of protest against the insidious arms of structural inequality. Protest comes in many forms, not always in the ways we have come to expect. From the dissemination of information around sexual violence and misconduct to an unveiling of how fields such as journalism can improve their practice, the panel will also touch on the different types of "protest' within the #MeToo movement.
The proceeds for these solidarity tickets will go towards the works of MeTooAsians and Asian Voices Europe. This event will be chaired by Tice Cin, writer and community manager of Tilted Axis, who published Shiori in the UK. Please send questions in advance for the Q&A through the Google form for the best chance to have them answered by 26th January. Upon registration, the Zoom secure link will be sent 24 hours in advance of the event.
Shiori Ito (born 1989) is a freelance journalist who contributes news footage and documentaries to the Economist, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and other primarily non-Japanese media outlets. In 2017 she published Black Box about her own experiences as a rape survivor, making her one of the few women in Japan to speak out against sexual assault. In 2020, she was named one of TIME's Most Influential People of the year.
Asian Voices Europe (est. 2020) is a nonprofit working on promoting Asian diversity with a focus on facilitating dialogue on anti-Asian racism and discrimination in the region. Its current projects include creating a guideline on dealing with discrimination at the workplace, a survey on Asians’ experience of discrimination, and creating an archive/map of racist incidents in Europe.
Jiye Seong (born 1990) is one of the co-founders of Asian Voices Europe, North Korea projects manager at the Human Rights Foundation, and a freelance interpreter/translator. In her Master’s degree in Science, Technology and Society Studies, she researched online feminist activism in South Korea, findings of which can be found on ARTE, BBC Asia, and Korea Exposé.
MeTooAsians e.V. (est. 2018) is a non-profit organization in Germany that focuses on the internal community aspect of resource building, they hold therapy and community-sharing sessions/workshops for survivors of sexual assault and help victims file lawsuits.
Lily Shim (born 1994) : is one of the board members of MeToo Asians e.V. In 2021 she worked on the short documentary project, [Our Stories, Our Voices] to find out a definition of ‘Anti-Asian Racism’ via qualitative interviews with Asian Women about their experiences with racism and sexism in Germany. She works as a member of AG Trostfrauen in a voluntary way. In her master thesis, she has analyzed the institutional influences on the Gender Pay Gap comparing Germany and South Korea.
