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KISKADEE profiles the voices of genderqueer, women, and gender expansive folks throughout the Americas. Highlighting artists, movement and community leaders, KISKADEE focuses on stories of joy, power, vision and hope.
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Akemi Kochiyama
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Akemi Kochiyama
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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In this episode we speak to Akemi Kochiyama, granddaughter of American civil rights activist, Yuri Kochiyama, the lifelong champion of civil rights causes in the black, Latino, Native American and Asian-American communities
Influenced by her Japanese-American family's experience in an American internment camp, her association with Malcolm X, and her Maoist beliefs, she advocated for many causes, including black separatism, the anti-war movement, reparations for Japanese-American internees, and the rights of political prisoners.