Create the World Anew: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
A groundbreaking anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarity between Black and Asian feminists, helping us make sense of the world we’re in and the world we must imagine and build.

For many in the US and abroad, calls to #SayHerName, the uptick in violence against Asian Americans throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings remain raw and unhealed. Create the World Anew: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities contextualizes a cross-racial feminist politics that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. Taken together, the pieces remind us that wherever there is struggle against oppressive systems, there is great possibility for empathy, respect, and solidarity.

A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, this unprecedented work brings together organizers, artists, journalists, poets, novelists, and more, introducing readers to new ways of understanding and reflecting on race and feminism. The anthology wrestles with contemporary feminism through a multitude of angles—from the Combahee River Collective to nail salons and massage parlors, from misogynoir to the model minority myth.

This innovative anthology features poetry, critical essays, interviews, creative nonfiction, and other contributions by Barbara Smith, Tamara Nopper, Franny Choi, Sonya Renee Taylor, and other vital, radical, feminist voices.

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Create the World Anew: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities
A groundbreaking anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarity between Black and Asian feminists, helping us make sense of the world we’re in and the world we must imagine and build.

For many in the US and abroad, calls to #SayHerName, the uptick in violence against Asian Americans throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings remain raw and unhealed. Create the World Anew: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities contextualizes a cross-racial feminist politics that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. Taken together, the pieces remind us that wherever there is struggle against oppressive systems, there is great possibility for empathy, respect, and solidarity.

A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, this unprecedented work brings together organizers, artists, journalists, poets, novelists, and more, introducing readers to new ways of understanding and reflecting on race and feminism. The anthology wrestles with contemporary feminism through a multitude of angles—from the Combahee River Collective to nail salons and massage parlors, from misogynoir to the model minority myth.

This innovative anthology features poetry, critical essays, interviews, creative nonfiction, and other contributions by Barbara Smith, Tamara Nopper, Franny Choi, Sonya Renee Taylor, and other vital, radical, feminist voices.

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A groundbreaking anthology that illuminates historical and contemporary solidarity between Black and Asian feminists, helping us make sense of the world we’re in and the world we must imagine and build.

For many in the US and abroad, calls to #SayHerName, the uptick in violence against Asian Americans throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings remain raw and unhealed. Create the World Anew: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities contextualizes a cross-racial feminist politics that explicitly addresses solidarity between Black and Asian feminists. Taken together, the pieces remind us that wherever there is struggle against oppressive systems, there is great possibility for empathy, respect, and solidarity.

A collaborative project between Black Women Radicals and the Asian American Feminist Collective, this unprecedented work brings together organizers, artists, journalists, poets, novelists, and more, introducing readers to new ways of understanding and reflecting on race and feminism. The anthology wrestles with contemporary feminism through a multitude of angles—from the Combahee River Collective to nail salons and massage parlors, from misogynoir to the model minority myth.

This innovative anthology features poetry, critical essays, interviews, creative nonfiction, and other contributions by Barbara Smith, Tamara Nopper, Franny Choi, Sonya Renee Taylor, and other vital, radical, feminist voices.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798888904312
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 08/05/2025
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Rachel Kuo is 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 Truth Out.


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.

Table of Contents

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

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