Abstract
Abstract: This dialogue brings together feminists with decades of experience in abolitionist work to discuss what it means to take up abolition feminisms within Asian American Studies today. Margo Okazawa-Rey dialogues with Priya Kandaswamy and Setsu Shigematsu about who we need to become to create a “culture of life” and what it means to embody and practice abolitionist values in the present-continuous. Together we discuss the tensions between Asian American as an identity and abolition as a politics that seeks to dismantle America. While addressing the limits of identity politics, we ask about how Asian diasporic subjects are situated within systems of anti-Black state violence and interrogate our own relationship to the nation-state. Based on our experiences in different movement spaces, we suggest some ways to reimagine and reconceptualize how we relate to each other and what might be useful and/or dangerous theoretical frameworks that have emerged from Asian American Studies for our praxis of abolition feminism.
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