Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey aka DJ MOR Love, Joy is an activist and educator working on issues of militarism, armed conflict and violence against women. Margo was a member of the historic Black feminist Combahee River Collective. She is a founding member of the Afro-Asian Relations Council, East Asia-U.S. Women’s Network Against Militarism, and the Institute for Multiracial Justice and the International Network of Women Against Militarism. She has a long standing relationship to social justice work in South Korea and with the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling in Palestine.
Episode Questions
1) What do you love?
2) What brings you joy?
3) How are you working to be in service of others?
Resources
Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Breakdown of wealth gaps amongst Asians in the US
Feminist Freedom Warriors by Mohanty & Carty (2018) http://feministfreedomwarriors.org/book.php
Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives by Kirk & Okazawa-Rey (2020) https://learninglink.oup.com/access/kirk-okazawa-rey-7e
Credits
This episode was hosted, edited and produced by me, Shantrice King. Special thank you to the Afro American Cultural Center at Yale and our co-sponsor for this episode, Asian American Cultural Center.
Music provided by pixabay.com
