ironically voted as social justice warrior of the year
by a well known right wing group – 2017
hi i’m eshe kiama zuri
I am dedicated to activism and take my role as a community member seriously. As a proudly unschooled person without secondary school or university education, I try to reclaim difficult topics, theory and research back into reality and challenge gatekeeping of education and intellectualising and theorising of our real lives and experiences. I’m a problem solver and I like to get stuck in and get stuff done, I’m always working on many things but I give them all the love and attention they need.
get to know me more
- I’m a ’96 baby
- I love aerial hoop, picking wild garlic in the spring and going on side quests with my besties
- Nottingham born n raised and I run projects in my community
- I’m Bajan-English and my favourite food is coucou and gravy ofc
- I’m intersex and non-binary which I consider to fall under the trans umbrella – my pronouns are they and them only
- I’m a disabled babe with diagnosed PCOS, endometriosis, fibromyalgia and CFS/ME
- I don’t eat animals or animal products and I like to eat mostly African and Caribbean foods
- Proud to be a working class and unschooled/ uneducated robin hoodrat x
activist
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hire me as a freelance consultANT
- Deeper DEI and policy advising with a radical approach for charities and perinatal healthcare providers
- Cultural competency, cultural appropriateness and safeguarding
- Activism, direct activism, safety and security
- Fundraising, crowdfunding and fundraising marketing
- Facilitation, conflict resolution, accountability processes and a realistic abolitionist approach to transformative justice
- Setting up community projects
- Asylum seeker, refugee and migrant support
- Sex worker outreach and support
- Homeless outreach and support
- Food poverty alleviation projects, food banks, referral schemes
- Harm reduction and drug awareness
- LGBTQIA+ rights and project support
- Sex and reproductive healthcare education
- Perinatal healthcare education
- Disability justice and project support
- Signposting and accessing state and charity services
- Black liberation, prison abolition and dismantling white supremacy
a bit more about me
Over the last few years I have been on panels and spoken at events run by #BAMEOnline, Newcastle University, King’s College, Goldsmiths University, IGLYO, Enthuse, Bond, SOAS, British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), LGBT Foundation and Edinburgh Radical Bookfair, amongst others.
I have written multiple articles for gal-dem and published a range of theory, articles, and essays on other online platforms. And I have been interviewed for articles in Refinery29, Prism, Yahoo, Black Ballad, and more.
I’ve been featured and referenced in a number of books, articles, and essays spanning disability, mutual aid, economics, and political theory, as well as government public policy.
I’ve done freelance consultancy for Charity Digital Skills Report and Back To Books Brum. And I’ve developed and delivered training and resources to charities and the NHS on behalf of Black Beetle Health, Sheffield Maternity Cooperative and MindOut LGBT+ Mental Health Charity.
I am the ex-Vice Chair of The Vegan Society and you can read more about that experience here.
“Over the past few years I have attended several events Eshe has organised and we recently engaged in a live conversation around Race and the Criminal Justice System. I am consistently impressed by their indeterminable hunger for justice, broadness of their activist knowledge, and unstoppable ability to create engaging and accessible content”
Risteard McDonald
“working on events with Eshe was a wonderful experience. They were super organised, reliable, and creative. It’s exciting to collaborate with someone who works on so many projects in different fields.
Wingshan Smith (Youth programmer at Nottingham Contemporary)
“I’ve worked with Eshe on a number of projects, what impresses is their fearless determination not only to get the right results, but to work with integrity, and to get the right results the right way”
Ned
“Eshe’s passion, experience, dedication and knowledge is not just impressive but a massive asset to every space they apply it to”
Elliss (Former Development and Communications Manager at Black Beetle Health)
“We have had the absolute pleasure and privilege of working with Eshe on several projects; I am continually impressed by their passion-driven work ethic and their pure wealth of knowledge that spans several fields of expertise. Their incalculably valuable insight formed by their extensive experience has been vital to the success of those projects, and their contribution has been instrumental in the foundations of our organisation.”
Thema Akosua (Cofounder of We Will Be Proud)