Uyghur Resistance Book Launch
Event description
Uyghur Resistance Naarm Exhibition + Book Launch
📅 September 6th, 2–5pm
🎟️ Reserve your free ticket
📖 Signed copies available
📍Hillvale Gallery Brunswick
Please join us for the official launch and exhibition of the photography and words featured in Uyghur Resistance.
After more than four years of work, supported by 825 donors around the world, we are proud to officially launch Uyghur Resistance in Naarm (Melbourne).
As Uyghurs, we are used to having others tell us who we are. Our identities are flattened, our stories distorted, our experiences spoken about but rarely heard.
Uyghur Resistance, as the first project of its kind, disrupts this trend. Our book affords Uyghur people a platform with which to tell their own stories, in their own words, for their own sake.
In the face of an ongoing genocide perpetrated by one of the most powerful regimes on earth, Uyghur Resistance is a testament to the diverse and often unexpected ways in which a diaspora in exile practise resistance.
This isn’t a book about what is happening to us, it is about the Uyghur voices, across continents and generations, raised in staunch defiance.
– Nuria Khasim, Editor
Produced by Kate Bensen
Designed by Lan Anh M
Photographed & Published by Sam Biddle
While this book and exhibition will focus upon Uyghur resistance, the Chinese Communist Party’s genocidal policies also target the Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik and Uzbek peoples in East Turkestan, as well as Tibetans and Mongolians.
We commit to inclusive advocacy that platforms other Indigenous and oppressed voices in so-called China.
The fight for Uyghur justice is but one part of the global struggle against oppression. We stand firmly in solidarity with oppressed peoples everywhere: from Palestine to West Papua and from so-called Australia to East Turkistan.
No one is free until we are all free.
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