Interview with Kiyomi Fujikawa

An interview with Kiyomi Fujikawa, a mixed-race queer trans femme and activist based in Seattle. At the time of this interview, she served as Co-Director of Third Wave Fund, an activist philanthropic organization supporting grassroots, queer and trans youth of color- and women of color-led movements, as well as on the boards of the Groundswell Fund, Funders Concerned About AIDS, and API Chaya. Prior to her work with Third Wave Fund, she served as a Senior Program Associate at the Fund for Trans Generations at Borealis Philanthropy. In this oral history interview, Fujikawa discusses her politicization as a young person in movements against California's Proposition 187, globalization, and the War on Terror, the beginnings of her work and activism in the anti-violence movement, her thoughts on and experiences in the anti-violence movement as a trans woman of color envisioning safety outside of the criminal legal system, the world of activist philanthropy, and trans movements at large, and the urgency of multi- and cross-issue, intersectional models for political and community organizing as necessary for the project of building a better future for trans people.

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Identifier: bv73c0780
Collection: Oral Histories with People of Color
Institution: Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection, University of Minnesota
Creator(s): Fujikawa, Kiyomi
Contributor(s): Billund-Phibbs, Myra
Beam, Myrl
Publisher: University of Minnesota Minneapolis Libraries
Date Created: Jan. 15, 2020
Genre: Oral Histories
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Subject(s): Fund for Trans Generations
Third Wave Fund
Places: Washington > King County > City of Seattle > Seattle
Topic(s): BIPOC
Intersectionality
Multiracial transgender people
Queer people
Transfeminine people
Transgender people
Transgender people of color
Transgender youth
Resource Type: Moving image
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Language: English
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