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Watch our webinar launching Shapeless Shapes LIVE here on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K05KPslSH0Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
The wonderful Professor Jacqueline Bhabha of @HarvardFxb opens by commenting on how timely it is in an era of #Covid_19 to be thinking about how we can get the message out about discrimination and exclusion to as wide an audience as possible, which is what #ShapelessShapes does
Enjoy a taster of the book with this 90-second animation...! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=9CNC1akf3lA&feature=emb_logo">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
You can download #ShapelessShapes from our website here https://www.institutesi.org/year-of-action-resources/shapeless-shapes">https://www.institutesi.org/year-of-a...
@byhannakim explains the origins of the idea for #ShapelessShapes: “It upset me to learn that millions of people are suffering in the shadows because they lack a nationality. I’d never heard about the issue before and got thinking about how I would explain it to friends & family”
@byhannakim constructed a world of shapes, to visualise countries and citizens, then to visualise #statelessness as a & #39;shapeless shape& #39; - challenging the notion that a stateless person is invisible and also conveying that statelessness can be resolved
@Amal_deC explains how the sequence of images in #ShapelessShapes exposes how citizenship is used as a weapon to exclude people and #statelessness in turn allows them to then be treated as sub-human
#ShapelessShapes contributes to amplifying the voices of stateless people because we need to counter the pens and swords of the powerful shapes with megaphones for stateless people and activists - explains @Amal_deC as he talks about his pride in this publication
Ekaterina from @UnitedStateless talks about her own experience of #statelessness and how the book shows you that it is shapes that commit an act against other shapes, so we are reminded that discrimination is something that is & #39;done& #39; to people, not just something that & #39;happens& #39;
Importantly, #ShapelessShapes also contains a message of hope, which is so important for stateless people who are trying to navigate their situation and collaborate to achieve change - explains Ekaterina from @UnitedStateless
@Amal_deC says that working together with @byhannakim on #ShapelessShapes meant producing something better than either could have alone, but also for Amal, a chance to get a better understanding of the issue of #statelessness itself, by breaking it down in this way
"Statelessness is a global issue and collaborating with other organisations, especially those also led by stateless activists is going to be a crucial element of success, here in the US and elsewhere" according to @UnitedStateless activist Ekaterina
Ekaterina also referred to research on #statelessness in the US which has helped to expose the extent of the issue. Interested to know more? You can access the report by @CMSnewyork here https://cmsny.org/publications/stateless-in-the-united-states/">https://cmsny.org/publicati... @UnitedStateless
There& #39;s been fantastic energy among activists and NGOs working on #statelessness over the past few years - now is the time to take this forward together in a way that allows stateless people to be leading the movement - explains @Amal_deC, reflecting on what& #39;s next for activism
#Statelessness is a different and a unique plight from what (the rest of) migrant communities are facing and this must be much more widely recognised and understood - adds @UnitedStateless member Ekaterina. The specific challenges we face as stateless people need to be known
A huge thank you to Prof. Bhabha of @HarvardFxb, @byhannakim, and Ekaterina of @UnitedStateless for collaborating with us on this webinar!
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