Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities NYC Book Launch

🗓️ Mon Oct 20, 2025
🕕 6:30 — 8:30 PM EST
📍 Mercury Store (131 8th St.), 11215
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Come celebrate the publication of We Are Each Other’s Liberation, a groundbreaking anthology centering Black and Asian feminist solidarities.

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.

Join us for a panel discussion with the book’s co-editors and readings from contributors in the anthology!

Speakers:
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) and cofounder of the Asian American Feminist Collective.

Jaimee A. Swift is the founder and executive director of Black Women Radicals and 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).

This event is sponsored by Black Women Radicals, Asian American Feminist Collective, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Haymarket Books.