We are each other's liberation : Black and Asian feminist solidarities / edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Asian American Feminist Collective, organizer.

Black Women Radicals, organizer.

Kuo, Rachel, editor.

Swift, Jaimee A., editor.

Tso, TD, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American feminists--Political and social views.

African American feminists.

Feminists--Black people--Women--Political and social views.

Feminists.

Feminists--Asian Americans--Political and social views.

Women, Black--Political and social views.

Women, Black.

Asian American women--Political and social views.

Asian American women.

Feminism.

Feminist theory.

African American women--Social conditions.

African American women.

Asian American women--Social conditions.

Asian Americans.

African Americans.

Intersectionality (Sociology).

Solidarity.

Race discrimination.

Sex discrimination.

feminism.

feminists (people).

african american.

sex discrimination.

Radical feminism.

Radical feminists.

Black feminism.

Black feminists.

Physical Description:

xiii, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Black and Asian feminist solidarities

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL. : Haymarket Books, 2025.

Summary:

A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, We Are Each Other's Liberation brings together work by organizers, artists, journalists, poets, and novelists to reflect on solidarity among Black and Asian feminists. Drawing out lessons from the revolutionary work of movement forebearers--including the Combahee River Collective, Claudia Jones, Grace Lee Boggs, Yuri Kochiyama, and Third World Women's Alliance--as well as struggles today, We Are Each Other's Liberation offers an urgent call for the just future we might build together. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Preface: Toward Black and Asian feminist solidarities / Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso.

Part 1. Our tensions: unpacking conflict through a feminist lens. Five memorials for Latasha / Courtney Faye Taylor

Field trip to the Museum of Human History / Franny Choi

Understanding disability, ableism, and incarceration more expansively / Talila A. Lewis

We want cop-free communities: a letter / Asian American Feminist Collective

Nail salon brawls and boycotts: unpacking the Black-Asian conflict in America / TD Tso

On anti-Black terror, captivity, and Black-Korean conflict / Tamara K. Nopper

I rememory you, Zheng Xianjuan / Nana Brantuo

Dear Indo-Caribbean people / Chandanie Somwaru

We will not be used / Mari Matsuda

Recognition and liberation for Chamoru people: a congressional statement / Rosa Bordallo.

Part 2. Our lineages: radical histories of cross-racial organizing. "Peace and freedom

inseparable": Claudia Jones's Afro-Asian internationalism / Zifeng Liu

At the Intersections of race, gender, and class: honoring the revolutionary feminist legacy of the Third World Women's Alliance / Karla Méndez

"We're here because you were there": on the organisation of women of Asian and African descent / Beverley Bryan and Stella Dadzie interviewed by Jaimee A. Swift

Our solidarity is a lifeline / Pratibha Parmar interviewed by Jaimee A. Swift

Revisiting a press of our own / Barbara Smith interviewed by the editors

Exploring Black and Asian American lesbian archives / Aché and Phoenix Rising, Jaimee A. Swift

Reviving the history of radical Black-Asian internationalism / Minju Bae and Mark Tseng-Putterman.

Part 3. Our liberatio : abolition feminisms. To my movement sister, Ny Nourn / Nate Tan

Lessons learned: building a police-free future with Abolition Park / VX

"We lead the world's liberation": a conversation with sex work activists / Kate Zen and SX Noir

"We have more in common than not": 8Lives Vigil speech / Sinnamon Love

Then, a Palestinian was born / Samah Serour Fadil

Searching for care and justice: antiviolence organizing and theories of survival / Solonee Bhaman

Beyond gilded cages: South Asians for abolition / Mon M.

Part 4. Our interconnections: from the transnational to the interpersonal. Not victims: on global sex worker organizing / TD Tso

Taking up each other's cause: a conversation on Tigray and Kashmir / "Tsinia't" and "Bint Ali" interviewed by Smi Kadirgamar

con flama (excerpt) / Sharon Bridgeforth

Celebrating a hundred years of Yuri Kochiyama / Akemi Kochiyama-Ladson interviewed by Jaimee A. Swift

Meditations on Black/Asian locations / Julie Ae Kim

Academia and activism: inside and outside the ivory tower / Shreerekha Pillai, Eunsong Kim, Demita Frazier, and Moya Bailey

What ethical non-monogamy, queer platonic intimacy, and parenthood taught us about community and the movement / Jamy Drapeza and Shaé Smith

From the other coast, with love / Zuri Gordon and Cecile A.

Part 5. Our joy: centering pleasure, care, and love in the movement. The breadfruit does not float far from the tree / Rosa Bordallo

Finding solidarity and survival within a transnational, intergenerational zoom dance party / TD Tso

A Black feminist perspective on the politics of care / Monaye Johnson

On healing through nature, kink, and communion: a conversation / Yin Q and J Wortham

On dalit dreaming and rebellious joy / Shaista Aziz Patel and Vijeta Kumar

Reimagining the autistic mother tongue / Jane Shi

Claiming my power / Simone Devi Jhingoor

Unapologetic agreements / Sonya Renee Taylor.

Part 6. Our futures: imagining and building feminist worlds. Dreaming is our radical inheritance and "radical imagiNation" / Kai Naima Williams

Nā Wāhine Noho Mauna: leadership, solidarity, and gender on Maunakea / Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua

Toward transnational feminist futures / Loretta J. Ross interviewed by the editors

Collective reproductive freedom is racial justice / Senti Sojwal

Siyah, hypervisible in silence is violence / Priscilla Kounkou-Hoveyda

Black feminist solidarity and Palestine / Beverley Guy-Sheftall

"Commitment is the key": Grace Lee Boggs and the rigor of revolution / Rachel Kuo

On how / Franny Choi

Afterword: Tough love / Margo Okazawa-Rey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798888903728

8888903720

9788888903729

9798888904312

OCLC:

1523233321

Publisher Number:

90104382320