Story 04
Women's Liberation
The January 1971 special issue of Gidra opened with a statement signed by fifteen Asian American women:
"We are Third World Asian sisters uniting in the struggle for liberation. Amerikan society has reduced women to economic and psychological servitude, and third world women and men to racist and dehumanizing stereotypes…In no way is our struggle different from the struggle for the liberation of all people. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!"
The authors addressed a range of topics, including sexual stereotypes of Asian women prevalent in the American military, the exploitation of Asian American women working in the garment industry, and discrimination against women within the Asian American movement. Decades before the term became widely familiar, this issue of Gidra recognized and called out the intersectionality of sexism, racism, and poverty.
