Beyond Belonging

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.

• IntroductionChapter 1: ESEA people in the UK: a complex narrativeChapter 2: Identity in motionChapter 3: Migration: how we came to beChapter 4: Representation and the illusion of progressChapter 5: Multiculturalism and mixed ESEA experiencesChapter 6: Appropriation, exploitation and workChapter 7: Queering the scriptChapter 8: Organizing through crisis