Asian American Feminist Collective
The Asian American Feminist Collective (AAFC) was founded in 2018 and is a group of scholars, organizers, and writers that seeks to engage in intersectional feminist politics grounded within communities that include East, Southeast, and South Asian, Pacific Islander, multi-ethnic and diasporic Asian identities. The AAFC aims to create spaces for identity exploration, political education, community building, and advocacy through the events, workshops, and resources that they provide. The AAFC has attributed their ability to think and act critically in community activism to the work of Black feminist thought and feminist movements in developing nations . Since 2018, the AAFC has published three zines: "Building an Asian American Feminist Movement", "How to Make History", and "Care in the Time of Coronavirus". Common themes in their zines have included dissecting privilege and access, among other social issues. History. In the surge of feminist resistance that helped launch the 2017 Women's March, AAFC's founding members (Julie Ae Kim, Rachel Kuo, Senti Sojwal, and Tiffany Diane Tso) noticed that women of color and their needs were often excluded or tokenized. The inaugural members of AAFC found it crucial that they help rekindle Asian American feminism and activism  to insure the inclusion and representation of the needs of Asian American women, girls, and marginalized genders when it came to political resistance. In early 2017, they created an Asian American Feminism event series before launching the AAFC in September 2018.