Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities: An Anthology

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FILLS A MAJOR GAP: There is no other book on the market that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists from historical, contemporary, intersectional, and intergenerational perspectives. The online pieces that became the foundation for this anthology, published in the Asian American Writers Workshops The Margins, made a big splash, and we expect readers who found that series valuable along with young people getting organized for the first time and people becoming newly politicized around their identities to pick up the book and spread the word about it.

, a grassroots racial and gender justice group engaged in intersectional feminist politics grounded within diasporic communities. Both groups are hugely influential and connected, and will help with the launch of the book.

The editors expect blurbs or other kinds of support from writers and organizers like Angela Y. Davis, Mariame Kaba, Barbara Smith, Mimi Kim, Roxane Gay, StaceyAnn Chin, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Kimberl Crenshaw, Alexander Chee, Dorothy Roberts, Jenna Wortham, Nicole Chung, and many many others.

The book will have a long life in academic settings, appealing to professors interested in feminism and social movements as well as for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms in departments such as media and communication studies; political science; gender, sexuality and feminist studies; African American studies and Asian American studies.

Author Bio

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.