Upcoming Event: We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities Book Talk (London)
Promotional flyer for the upcoming in-person event in London, We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (2025) featuring Stella Dadzie (left), Pratibha Parmar (middle) and Jaimee A. Swift (right).
By Black Women Radicals
Join us for the upcoming book talk at The Feminist Library in London on We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities.
On Saturday, June 13 at 1:30 PM GMT, join us for an upcoming in-person event at The Feminist Library in London on We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (Haymarket Books, 2025), edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso.
The event will be held at The Feminist Library, located at Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Rd, London SE15 6JL, United Kingdom. The event is free and open to the public.
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This event will feature Stella Dadzie, founding member of the Organization of Women of African and Asian Descent and author of A Whole Heap of Mix Up (2025);A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance (2020) and co-editor of The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain (1985); Pratibha Parmar, an award-winning award-winning filmmaker and co-editor of Our Eyes As Commonly Tender (2025); and Jaimee A. Swift, Ph.D., co-editor of We Are Each Other's Liberation and founder and executive director of Black Women Radicals and The School for Black Feminist Politics.
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. Drawing out lessons from the revolutionary work of movement forebearers—including the Organization of Women of African and Asian Descent, 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.
ABOUT THE PANELISTS
Stella Dadzie
Photo of Stella Dadzie by Suki Dhanda/The Guardian.
Stella Dadzie is a published writer and feminist historian, best known for The Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain which won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature, and was re-published by Verso in 2018 as a Feminist Classic. Her work on enslaved women, A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery & Resistance was published by Verso in October 2020 to much acclaim. Her latest book, A Whole Heap of Mix Up, is out now. Stella is a founder member of OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent), a national umbrella group for Black women that emerged in the late 1970s as part of the British Civil Rights movement. She has been described as one of the “grandmothers“ of Black Feminism in the UK. Her personal archive in Brixton‘s Black Cultural Archives is one of the most visited by researchers and scholars from across the world.
Her career as a writer, artist and education activist spans nearly 50 years. She has written numerous publications and resources aimed at promoting equality and good practice, including resources to decolonise and diversify the UK national curriculum in schools and colleges. She is well known within the UK for her contribution to tackling youth racism and working with racist perpetrators, and is a key contributor to the development of anti-racist strategies with schools, colleges and youth services. She has run workshops and spoken at conferences in Germany, Slovenia, Poland, Norway, South Africa, the USA, Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia, and was a guest Lecturer at Harvard University in 2018 and 2023.
She appeared in And still I Rise, Ngozi Onwurah‘s 1992 documentary exploring the social and historical origins of stereotypes of African women, and was a guest of Germaine Greer on her BBC2 discussion programme, The Last Word in 1994. She was also a Commissioner on the Mayor of London‘s African and Asian Heritage Commission, which aimed to promote more diversity across London‘s heritage sector, including its many museums from 2003-2004 She is currently working to support the National Maritime Museum’s commitment to highlighting untold narratives.
Pratibha Parmar
Photo of Pratibha Parmar. Courtesy of Pratibha Parmar.
Pratibha Parmar’s films have shaped the politics of feminist, queer, and diasporic visual cultures for over four decades. From experimental shorts to activist documentaries and feature-length works, Parmar’s cinematic language operates as an act of visual justice. Her practice engages the image as a site of struggle—challenging the power relations that determine who is seen, how they are represented, and what forms of visual expression are made possible. Her films are a site of narrative transformation, where memory, activism, and artistic expression converge to resist erasure and imagine new futures. Pratibha is a published author and editor of of several anthologies. The Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) and Sming Sming Books published, Our Eyes as Commonly Tender: Visual Justice in the Filmmaking of Pratibha Parmar in 2025.
Jaimee A. Swift
Photo of Jaimee Swift by Seth Avusuglo
Dr. Jaimee A. Swift (she/her) is the 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.
A political scientist, Swift is dedicated to uncovering, restoring, and restituting Black women and gender expansive people's political memories, movements, narratives, and leadership. She works with Black feminist-activists, organizers, scholars, and educators from around the world to explore and expand on the power, possibilities, and futurity of Black feminisms.
She is the co-editor of We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (Haymarket Books, 2025), with Rachel Kuo and TD Tso. She is the co-author, with Joseph R. Fitzgerald, of the forthcoming biography of Black feminist icon, Barbara Smith.