Happy Birthday, Yuri! 🎉⠀ ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽⠀ Remembering abolitionist OG: Yuri Kochiyama ⠀ ⠀ “Unless we know ourselves and our history, and other people and their history, there is really no way that we can really have positive kind of interaction where there is real understanding.”⠀ ⠀ Portrait by artist Melanie Cervantes of @dignidadrebeldeart ⠀ ⠀ #shero #asianamericanmovement #AsianAmerican #AsianAmericanHeritageMonth #AAPIHeritageMonth⠀