A major anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarities between Black and Asian feminists.
A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, We Are Each Other's Liberation envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. Bringing together organizers, artists, journalists, poets, novelists, and more, this collection introduces readers to new ways of understanding and reflecting on race and feminism.
Drawing out lessons from the revolutionary work of movement forebearersincluding the Combahee River Collective, Claudia Jones, Grace Lee Boggs, Yuri Kochiyama, and Third World Womens Alliance as well as struggles todayWe Are Each Others Liberation offers an urgent call for the just future we might build together.
Preface: Toward Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Part 1: Our Tensions: Unpacking Conflict Through a Feminist Lens
Part 2: Our Lineages: Radical Histories of Cross-Racial Organizing
Part 3: Our Liberation: Abolition Feminisms
Part 4: Our Interconnections: From Transnational to the Interpersonal
Part 5: Our Joy: Centering Pleasure, Care, and Love in the Movement
Part 6: Our Futures: Imagining and Building Feminist Worlds
Afterword
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Editor and Contributor Bios
Jaimee A. Swift is the creator and executive director of Black Women Radicals, dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender-expansive peoples radical activism in Africa and in the African diaspora.
TD Tso is a feminist writer, editor, cultural organizer, and cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective.
Rachel Kuo is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective, which engages intersectional feminist politics grounded within Asian diasporic communities.