The A/P/A FEMINIST LEGACY
Partly because of the extreme pressure brought by racism to our communities, many of our activists felt duty-bound to support and protect our male leadership without question. I remember being in a round table discussion with female Asian American activists and hearing, “we have to support our brothers no matter what…” It took us several years to formulate a response to that one, “we are sisters to him who is a brother to us; sisters to her who is a sister to us” – thus demarcating the difference between those who would exploit our womanhood and those who would be our allies in our fight for our emancipation.