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 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.
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.
Jaimee A. Swift is the creator and executive director of Black Women Radicals, dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender-expansive people’s radical activism in Africa and in the African diaspora.
TD Tso is a writer, editor, and cultural organizer working at the intersections of environmental, gender, and labor justice movements, cross-racial feminist solidarities, and art. TD co-edited the anthology We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (Haymarket, 2025); has had work published in HuffPost, Allure, Refinery29, among others; and has been recognized through grants, residencies, and retreats from Asian Women Giving Circle, Asian American Arts Alliance, MoCADA, The Laundromat Project, and The Strange Foundation.
ISBN: 9798888903728
Publication date: October 14, 2025
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
“We are Each Other’s Liberation offers crucial stories and frameworks for overcoming cross-racial divisions, building on past legacies, and expanding the possibilities of solidarity and liberation. Essential and groundbreaking, it will equip organizers to harness the power of relationships for revolutionary change.”
—Nadine Naber, author of Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism
“A powerful collection that puts past, present, and theory in conversation, We Are Each Other's Liberation urges us to re-examine Black and Asian community dynamics through the lens of woman of color feminisms. The gift that this book gives us is a guide for how to think about power—how we wield it, how it is used against us, how we can use it to oppose those who are out to destroy us. We Are Each Other’s Liberation is a gathering of essential answers to the question of where we go from here.”
—Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
“A beacon of kinship, movement wisdom, and insurgent possibility for all of us struggling with despair in fascist times.”
—Harsha Walia
“A must read for organizers in need of hope in these difficult times.”
—Alice Wong
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