Umi Asaka

Jul 23, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Nicolina Newcombe |Umi Asaka

"If we don’t [engage], it will be too easy for the issue to have a brief period of high exposure and then be forgotten. People will inevitably move on to other issues. The media will only cover the issues raised by the Report for a short time. But those of us who experienced the abuse can’t turn off our history. The systemic deficits in New Zealand society will remain. It is up to us to demand change." - Jonathan Mosen, Survivor "It is our report, it includes our collective stories.

Jul 18, 2024 | thedlist.co.nz | Ellen Mogård Larsen |Olivia Shivas |Cait Ruth Lawrence |Umi Asaka

For a really long time, I don’t think anyone around me saw these online communities the way I did. I seemed to see the connections made and communities evolving as more real and more valuable. You’re bound to be over-invested if social media has been your only social sustenance for years, I’m sure, but as I kept sharing through my recovery and disabilities progressing, I was seeing a world forming online that I really wanted to be a part of.