Black & Asian American Feminist Solidarities:

resources from our free virtual workshop in partnership with
Asian american feminist collective

On Saturday, June 27th, Asian American Feminist Collective led the virtual Black and Asian American Feminist Solidarities Workshop. The workshop looked to Black and Asian American feminist writings to offer Asian Americans the tools and strategies for continuing to build solidarities for liberation. We discussed what the future can look like and the role of Asian Americans in working to build that future, drawing on poetry, literature from The Bridge Called My Back, essays by Audre Lorde and bell hooks, and collective writings that dream, imagine, and enact Black and Asian American feminist solidarities. This workshop was offered for free, but we asked those with funds to consider donating to The Survived and Punished NY Mutual Aid Working Group, which supports incarcerated survivors of gender-based violence.

If you missed the workshop, we’ve compiled some resources! You can watch the full recording of the event, look through the slides used as a presentation, read the transcript, or check out the recommended readings.

transcript

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slides from the workshop:

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Workshop syllabus & recommended readings

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, a feminist anthology edited by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
“Learning from the 60s” by Audre Lorde (1982)
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, anthology edited by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan
Grace Kyungwon Hong’s “Intersectionality and Incommensurability: Third World Feminism and Asian Decolonization”
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu’s “Asian American Feminisms and Woman of Color Feminisms: Radicalism, Liberalism, and Invisibility”
Tamara Nopper’s “The Illusion of Afro-Asian Solidarity?: Situating the 1955 Bandung Conference”
Black and Asian American Feminist Solidarities Reading List by Black Women Radicals & Asian American Feminist Collective

Asian American Feminist Collective:

Asian American Feminist Collective engage in intersectional feminist politics grounded within our communities, including those whose backgrounds encompass East, Southeast, and South Asian, Pacific Islander, multi-ethnic and diasporic Asian identities. Through public events and resources, AAFC seek to provide spaces for identity exploration, political education, community building, and advocacy.

Asian American feminism is a world-building project. The beauty of the Asian American feminist movement is that we can continue to shape and evolve it. We must constantly reflect upon and refine a political agenda that works for all of us. AAFC’s goal is to continue interrogating and defining this movement as well as producing different spaces and resources to build stronger coalitions, connect people in the Asian American community, and produce new ideas.

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