WE ARE EACH OTHER’S LIBERATION
Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
Edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee Swift, and Tiffany Tso
Haymarket Books (August 20, 2024)
Trade paper • ISBN-13: 9798888900932• US $24.95 • 5 in x 8 in • 400pgs.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
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.
PRAISE:
“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
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Rachel Kuo is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a founding member and current affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies and co-founder of the Asian American Feminist Collective. Her writing on racial politics, social movements, and technology have been published in New Media & Society, Social Media and Society, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Teen Vogue, and Truthout.
Jaimee Swift is the creator, 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.
Tiffany Diane Tso is a feminist writer, editor, and cultural producer based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). She has written extensively on Asian American issues, sex work, Black-Asian conflict and solidarities, and labor, and has been published in HuffPost, Refinery29, Slate, Allure, and more. Along with Kate Zen, Tiffany co-edited But I Am Here, an anthology of New York City sex worker organizers, activists, writers, and artists. She is also a cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective, a community gardener, and a love evangelist.
RIGHTS INFORMATION:
Please contact subagents for the following languages and territories:
| Language/Territory | Subagent |
|---|---|
| China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam | Big Apple Agency |
| Dutch | Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency |
| English outside North America | David Grossman Literary Agency |
| French | Deborah Druba Agency |
| German | Paul & Peter Fritz AG Literatur Agentur |
| Greek | Read n' Right Agency |
| Hebrew | The Deborah Harris Agency |
| Italian | Berla & Griffini Rights Agency |
| Japanese | The English Agency (Japan) Ltd |
| Korean | BC Agency, or Korea Copyright Center |
| Portuguese | RIFF Agency |
| Russia/Baltics/Eastern Europe | Prava I Prevodi |
| Scandinavia | Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency |
| Spanish in Latin America | MB Agencia Literaria |
| Spanish in Spain | MB Agencia Literaria |
| Turkish | Anatolialit Agency |
For all other languages/territories, please contact Roam Agency.