Reflections on #Solidarity: Intersectional Movements in AAPI Communities

This chapter compares samples of print and digital media materials that articulate discourses of solidarity from the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women who are working to build a more intersectional feminist, anti-racist movement. These discourses can be seen as examples of intersectionality and solidarity in practice, and reveal the ways that hashtags on Twitter function as a tool for unity and specificity. The print materials come from Asian Women United (AWU)'s archives and the archives of the Asian American Legal Defense Fund and Asian Cinevision. The hashtag pushed conversations around Asian American feminism to the forefront of both Asian American and feminist online communities, and demanded a space where the two digital publics could converge. While hashtags function as gestures of solidarity between both individuals and communities, they are also just a small piece of a movement.