NYC Launch of We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Promotional flyer for the NYC Launch of We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities. From L-R: Akemi Kochiyama-Ladson, Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, TD Tso, and Kai Naima Williams.
Celebrating the NYC launch of Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities anthology.
On Monday, October 20th between 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective celebrated the book launch, We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (Haymarket Books) co-edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso! The book launch took place at Mercury Store in Brooklyn, New York. This event was sponsored by Black Women Radicals, Asian American Feminist Collective, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Haymarket Books.
You can purchase the anthology here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2519-we-are-each-other-s-liberation
Emerging out of a collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities offers an urgent call for the just future we might build together. Drawing out lessons from the revolutionary work of movement forebearers and bringing together organizers, artists, journalists, poets, novelists, and more, this collection envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics.
Drawing out lessons from the revolutionary work of movement forebearers and bringing together organizers, artists, journalists, poets, novelists & more, this collection envisions a cross-racial and internationalist politics.
During the event, Kai Naima Williams opened the program by reading a poem featured in the anthology and the panel discussion featured Akemi Kochiyama-Ladson, Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso.
Speaker Bios:
Akemi Kochiyama-Ladson is a Harlem-based writer, scholar-activist and non-profit consultant. The granddaughter of human rights activist, Yuri Kochiyama, Akemi is co-editor of Passing It On: A Memoir by Yuri Kochiyama and co-director of The Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project (YKSP).
Rachel Kuo is an assistant professor of gender and women studies and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of Movement Media: In Pursuit of Solidarity (Oxford University Press) & cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective.
Jaimee A. Swift is the founder and executive director of Black Women Radicals & The School for Black Feminist Politics.
TD Tso is a feminist writer, editor, cultural organizer, and cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective.
Kai Naima Williams is a multidisciplinary writer and performing artist based in Harlem, New York. She is the author of The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements (Kaepernick Publishing, 2024) and poetry chapbooks He Tried to Drown the Ocean, I Waved (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2018) and Tomorrow Maps (Hunger Press, 2023).
Photos from the NYC Launch
Photos by Daleelah Saleh
