Tanaka Mhishi

Tanaka Mhishi is a writer, performer and storyteller. His works with issues surrounding masculinity and trauma have been produced on screen for BBC 3 and on stages nationwide, including This Is How It Happens, a play about male survivors of sexual violence and the Off West End Award nominated Boys Don’t which he co-wrote and performed in in partnership with Papertale Productions and Half Moon Theatre. He is poet-in-residence for the Consent Collective and a trustee for SurvivorsUK, the UK’s preeminent charity supporting male and non-binary survivors of sexual violence. Tanaka works with media organisations, charities and universities to support conversations surrounding race, sexual violence, masculinity and consent.