Kohei Ishihara interview

Interview with Kohei Ishihara by Kelvin Yang. Ishihara is a founder of PrSYM (Providence Youth Student Movement) and the Movement Ground Farm in Tiverton; R.I. He identifies as a Japanese-American gay man. Topics in order of discussion include: growing up in Alexandria; Virginia including early social justice work and coming out senior year of high school; attending Brown University; establishing PrSYM and advocacy work with the Southeast Asian community; establishing the Movement Ground Farm and farming and food distribution as a social justice activity; being a queer person in farming and agriculture which are very heterosexualized industries. This interview was created as part of the Queering Oral History course - an oral history course at Brown University in Spring 2020 and taught by Dr. Virginia Thomas. Students were trained in oral history practices and interviewed members of the Rhode Island LGBTQIA community.