Kay Stephens

Kay holds an MPhil and BA in Philosophy from UCL. They recently completed a traineeship at Eastside Community Heritage, a local heritage charity that runs oral history projects in East London. They have also delivered creative workshops for other heritage projects, including Activating Newham – a project exploring Newham’s history of anti-racist community activism.

Kay is also an editor of daikon* zine, which explores issues of solidarity, community, and the experiences of East and Southeast Asian people of marginalised genders. This sparked an interest in the global material conditions that lead to different modes of East and Southeast Asian racialisation in the diaspora. As such, Kay is interested in learning more about the class character of Japan-UK migration, and the gendered experiences of post-war Japanese women migrants in the UK.