No One Is Illegal-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories presents an interview with Lily Shinde as part of “Inheriting Resistance: A Community History Project.” For more information: http://noii-van.resist.ca/?page_id=4225

Lily Yuriko Shinde is a 64-year-old Japanese Canadian lesbian, storyteller and anti-racism educator and a long time political activist living in Vancouver. She was one of the founding members of the first Third World Womens group and Women of Colour group in Vancouver. She has been involved with the Japanese Canadian politics, taught a course she created called Feminist English in Osaka, Japan and played softball for the first lesbian of colour team in the Mabel league for several years. She is currently a member of the Greater Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizens Human Rights Committee.