Champions of Equality: Moving Mountains- AAPI Feminisms
Tuesday, July 14th
6:30 PM
Virtual
Join APC for our next installment of Champions of Equality. We will be talking with Dr. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu about her new book Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women’s Conference. Moving Mountains focuses on Asian American and Pacific Islander women who participated in the 1977 National Women’s Conference and subsequently organized their own regional and national conferences on Asian Pacific American women.
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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is Chancellor’s professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She also serves as faculty director of the Humanities Center and Associate Dean in the School of Humanities of Research, Faculty Development, and Public Engagement.
She authored Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: the Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, 2005) and Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (Cornell University Press, 2013). Her book, Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress (New York University Press, 2022), is a collaboration with political scientist Gwendolyn Mink and received the 2023 Mary Nickliss Prize, which recognizes the best publication in U.S. Women’s/Gender History from the Organization of American Historians. Wu and Mink also collaborated on a comic biography of Patsy Mink that is free for digital download: https://www.weteachnyc.org/resources/resource/patsy-takemoto-mink/