A groundbreaking anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarity between Black and Asian feminists, helping us make sense of the world were in and the world we must imagine and build.
For many in the US and abroad, calls to #SayHerName, the uptick in violence against Asian Americans throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings remain raw and unhealed. Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities contextualizes a cross-racial feminist politics that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. Taken together, the pieces remind us that wherever there is struggle against oppressive systems, there is great possibility for empathy, respect, and solidarity.
A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, this unprecedented work brings together organizers, artists, journalists, poets, novelists, and more, introducing readers to new ways of understanding and reflecting on race and feminism. The anthology wrestles with contemporary feminism through a multitude of anglesfrom the Combahee River Collective to nail salons and massage parlors, from misogynoir to the model minority myth.
Edited by co-founders of BWR and AAFCRachel Kuo, Jaimee Swift, and Tiffany Diane Tsothe anthology features poetry, critical essays, interviews, creative nonfiction, and other contributions by/with Barbara Smith, Tamara Nopper, Franny Choi, Sonya Renee Taylor, and several other vital, radical, feminist voices.
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Opening
Foreword, Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey
Introduction, Editors
Black and Asian Feminist Solidarity Letter, Black Women Radicals and Asian
American Feminist Collective
Part 1 - Our Lineages: Radical Histories of Cross-Racial Organizing
On Claudia Jones and Afro-Asian Solidarity, Zifeng Liu*
Celebrating 100 Years of Yuri Kochiyama: Akemi Kochiyama on Her Grandmothers
Life, Leadership, and Legacy, Jaimee Swift
Exploring Black and Asian American Lesbian Archives: Aché and Phoenix Rising,
Jaimee Swift
Reviving the History of Radical Black-Asian internationalism, Minju Bae and
Mark Tseng-Putterman
A Conversation with OWAADs Stella Dadzie and Beverly Bryan, Jaimee Swift
What is the Third World? Reflections on the Third World Womens Alliance,
Karla Mendez
Not Victims: On Global Sex Worker Organizing, Tiffany Diane Tso
Dear Indo-Caribbean People, Ashley Somwaru
Part 2 - Our Tongues: Languages of Solidarity
South Asians for Abolition, Mon Mohapatra
A Conversation on the War in Tigray and Indias State Violence in Kashmir,
Simi Kadirgamar
We Will Not Be Used, Mari Matsuda
Practicing Feminist Solidarity in Writing, Julie Ae Kim
Revisiting a Press of Our Own with Barbara Smith, BAFS Editors
Commitment is Key: Grace Lee Boggs and Rigor, Rachel Kuo
Part 3: Our TensionsUnpacking Conflict Through a Feminist Lens
Nail Salon Brawls & Boycotts, Tiffany Diane Tso
Zheng Xianjuan Autoethnography, Nana Brantuo*
On Terror, Captivity, and Black-Korean Conflict, Tamara Nopper
Congressional Testimony at 9, Rosa Bordello*
We Want Cop-Free Communities: A Letter, Asian American Feminist Collective
Field Trip, Franny Choi
Part 4 - Our Relationships: Feminist Solidarity on Intimate Levels
From the Other Coast with Love by Zuri Gordon, Cecile Afable
Con Flama, Sharon Bridgeforth
Searching for Care and Justice: Anti-Violence Organizing and Theories of
Survival, Salonee Bhaman
Pratibha Parmar Interview, Jaimee Swift*
Meditations on Black/Asian Locations, Julie Ae Kim
Part 5 - Our Liberation: Abolition Feminisms
We Lead the Worlds Liberation: A Conversation, SX Noir And Kate Zen
Love Letter to Ny Nourn, Nate Tan
8Lives Vigil speeches, Sinnamon Love and TD Tso*
Kuleana Lhui: Collective Responsibility Beyond Statehood, Noelani
Goodyear-Kapua
Lessons Learned: Building a Police Free Future with Abolition Park, Victoria
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Aaron Says, Franny Choi
Toward Grace, Franny Choi
Part 6 - Our Joy: Centering Pleasure, Care, and Love in the Movement
Finding Solidarity and Survival Within a Transnational, Intergenerational
Zoom Dance Party, Tiffany Diane Tso
What Ethical Non-Monogamy, Queer Platonic Intimacy, and Parenthood Taught Us
About Community and the Movement, Jamy Drapeza and Shaé Smith
A Black Feminist Perspective on The Politics of Care, Breya Johnson
A Conversation on Slowness, J Wortham and Yin Q*
Unapologetic Agreements, Sonya Renee Taylor
Breadfruit, Rosa Bordello
Part 7: Our Futures: Imagining and Building Feminist Worlds
radical imagiNation, Kai Naima Williams
An Interview with Loretta Ross, BAFS Editors*
Abortion Rights are Racial Justice, Senti Sojwal
Afro-Iranian Voices, Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda*
Claiming my Power, Simone Jhingoor
We Could Create Crimes Together, Rekha Subramanian, Eunsong Kim, Demita
Frasier, and Moya Bailey
On How (After Nate), Franny Choi
Rachel Kuo is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a founding member and current affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies and co-founder of the Asian American Feminist Collective. Her writing on racial politics, social movements, and technology have been published in New Media & Society, Social Media and Society, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Teen Vogue, and Truth Out.
Jaimee Swift is the creator, founder, and executive director of Black Women Radicals, a Black feminist advocacy organization dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender expansive people's radical activism in Africa and in the African Diaspora. She is also the creator and founder of The School for Black Feminist Politics (SBFP), the Black feminist political education arm of Black Women Radicals. The mission of the SBFP is to empower Black feminisms in Black Politics by expanding the field from transnational, intersectional, and multidisciplinary perspectives.
Tiffany Diane Tso is a feminist writer, editor, and cultural producer based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). She has written extensively on Asian American issues, sex work, Black-Asian conflict and solidarities, and labor, and has been published in HuffPost, Refinery29, Slate, Allure, and more. Along with Kate Zen, Tiffany co-edited But I Am Here, an anthology of New York City sex worker organizers, activists, writers, and artists. She is also a cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective, a community gardener, and a love evangelist.
