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Continue reading →: Excerpt from “Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women’s Conference” by Judy Tzu-Chun WuIn November 1977, over twenty thousand participants, mostly women, gathered in Houston for the first and only US National Women’s Conference, funded by the federal government with the goal of creating a national women’s agenda. In Moving Mountains, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Adrienne A. Winans center the more than eighty…
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Continue reading →: Tlingit Raven Stories: A Conversation with Sealaska Heritage InstituteYéil Kundayaayí, Adventures of Raven, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Will Geiger, and Jeff Leer, brings together fifty stories that reveal Raven’s wit and world-shaping power. Known in Tlingit as Yéil, Raven is a legendary cultural hero, world-maker, and trickster figure among the Tlingit of Southeast Alaska. Stories…
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Continue reading →: Excerpt from “Citizen 13660”: Miné Okubo’s Witness of IncarcerationFirst published in 1946, Citizen 13660 remains one of the earliest and arguably best-known autobiographical accounts of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Through spare prose and more than 200 drawings, Nisei artist Miné Okubo documented daily life inside the camps. An accomplished artist before the war,…
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Continue reading →: From “Heartbreak City”: The Story of Seattle’s All-Black Women’s Softball TeamFor Black History Month, we’re sharing an excerpt from Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress by Shaun Scott on the Seattle Owls. Long before A League of Their Own, this all-Black women’s softball team broke new ground on the diamond as Black Seattleites reshaped the…
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