Abstract
Her words, coiled tightly in my script, tied her spirit to her body and bound her to this life. When they burned, they would travel with her across the waters, free.-Nora Okja Keller, Woman Bringing together activists, academics, and cultural workers to analyze and discuss the structural causes ofJapanese military sexual slavery, the Comfort Women of World War II: Legacy and Lessons conference illuminated the pervasive presence of multinational capitalism and the ways in which it implicates nationstates and also responded to and intervened in multinational operations that attempt to control women, particularly in militarized and colonizing situations.1 Through this illumination, response, and intervention, the conference explicitly participated in transnational feminist activism, but I argue in this essay that the conference was indebted more specifically to an Asian American transnational
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