{"id":1598,"date":"2021-11-11T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?page_id=1598"},"modified":"2021-12-13T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T21:37:21","slug":"angie-an","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/angie-an\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInvisibility is an Unnatural Disaster”: Asian American Women During the Second Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

This curatorial exhibit explores the socio-historical influences responsible for Asian-American invisibility during the Second Wave Feminist Movement. As delineated by scholars Esther Chow and Jid Lee, traditional strongholds of Asian cultures bred a non-confrontational mentality within Asian women, thus partly accounting for their political apathy. However, Second Wave<\/span> Asian-American feminists argue that Asian women <\/span>were<\/span><\/i> politically active but ultimately rendered nameless by mainstream feminism. Eminent Asian-American feminists Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong vocalize their frustrations regarding such invisibility in the anthology, <\/span>This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color<\/span><\/i>. Periodicals such as <\/span>Heresies<\/span><\/i> and Sinister Wisdom<\/em> further highlight the shame, guilt, and confusion that accompanies the Asian-American identity within Western culture. Additional marginalized perspectives, including those of Vietnamese feminists and Filipina poet Mila Aguilar, are spotlighted in the journals, <\/span>Off Our Backs<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Women\u2019s Studies Quarterly<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>Phoenix Rising,<\/span><\/i> a lesbian periodical, addresses the lack of queer voices in Asian-American feminist communities and works to strengthen intersectional ties with other communities of color, such as Ach\u00e9<\/em>, a periodical for Black lesbians.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

-Angie An<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere Are All the Asian American Women?\u201d: Cultural and Political Influences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The \u201cDouble Image\u201d of the Asian American Identity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt Is Not One Story\u201d: Trajectories Within Asian American Communities<\/a><\/p>\n

Defying Stereotypes and Carving Their Own Space: Queer and South Asian Americans<\/a><\/p>\n

Cross-Cultural Solidarity and Black Communities\u2019 Influence on Asian American Activism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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