Herstory in East Asia

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“Herstory in East Asia” project was launched in Facing the Ocean Hackathon in Okinawa, Japan with contributors from Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Hong Kong. We want to show “herstory” in East Asia from local perspectives with a timeline and a map in our local languages, so that people from different regions of East Asia can learn more about the stories and rights women and LGBETQ+ have fought for.

Monthly meetings have been hosted to share our experience and to discuss contents, visualization design and translation issues. So far, more than 50 stories have been translated into English, Mandarin, Korean and Japanese with more than 20 participants. A website prototype is under development.

In the presentation, we would like to share:

- Demo of our work by December

- Why we join? What does the project mean to communities in different countries?

- Challenges of international collaboration, e.g. language barrier, how to set project scope and goals and pivot, hard to translate local events

- Lessons learned from the project for future international collaboration

Other speakers may include other country coordinator @Mee from Korea and @Miley from Code for Japan.

Website: https://herstory-of-east-asia.netlify.com/

Collaboration spreadsheet: https://bit.ly/2SsOPSU