How We Formed the WOC Book Club Team

This project is inspired by the close friendships and coalitions sprouted from a university’s literature department.

We are friends who found each other in our transcultural studies literature classes during college.⁣⁣⁣ We collectively studied multi-ethnic literature and film, world literature and film, comparative race and racialization, racial capitalism, queer theory, world movements and solidarities, and WOC & gender non-conforming POC literature and activism. 
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With time and with care, we formed intimacies with each other that blossomed into our own women of color coalitions.⁣⁣ The texts that we collectively studied have been the backbone of our intimacies, coalitions, and radical thought. 
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These literary and theoretical texts have been truly liberating, validating, and inspiring because they allow us to make sense of our own realities and lived experiences. ⁣⁣⁣They allow us to attach ourselves to longer histories and genealogies of WOC coalition politics.
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We want to share with you all the transformative powers of reading literature that reflects who you are. ⁣We are inspired by—and committed to—nurturing radical WOC solidarities. 

We believe in futures that center WOC—our joy and our trauma—to create kinships of care, belonging, and radical compassion. We draw strength and value from and with one another. We nurture each other. We build new worlds together. 
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