Launch of Space for EVRyone

Launching… Space for EVRyone

At EVR, we’re launching a new blog series. We’d like to spotlight a range of people, including East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) community members, people on our Board, staff, and allies in the fight against anti-ESEA hate.

We’re calling this series Space for EVRyone because:

·       We want to find space for change and space for hope in our lives. Where would we be without hope?

·       We need to make space for ESEA narratives. We hear from our community members time and again of experiences of feeling unheard and unseen.

·       We believe that anti-racism should not marginalise anyone. We are equal to all, including our allies, and we know that privilege and disadvantage do not only track with race.

One of our ambitions with this series is to humanise anti-racism. The ESEA community is diverse. Each of us maps a unique constellation of life history, career, ties of affection, loss, language and potential. When any one of us suffers racism or any other form of hate, we have to bear that indignity as us. Racism is personal.

But we are unbowed, and EVR exists for us.

We hope you’ll visit this page every other Thursday, when we’ll be posting a fresh profile. If there is anyone you’d like us to profile – perhaps yourself… why not? – we can be reached at info@evresea.com or on Twitter @EVR_ESEA.