181 On December 15, 2013, Suey Park started a conversation about Asian American feminism on Twitter under the hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick. The hashtag pushed conversations around Asian American feminism to the forefront of both Asian American and feminist online communities, and demanded a space where the two digital publics could converge. #Not- YourAsianSidekick produced many conversations in mainstream media, popular media, and academic outlets about the efficacy of hashtags in activism and the many ways that Twitter has been used by racial justice activists. Since its origins in 2006, the platform has provided opportunity for discourse, education, demonstration, organization, and community-building. It is positioned within the larger realm of social media such as Facebook posts, Tumblr blogs, and Instagram images, which re-mediate print media materials like flyers, newsletters, and posters. As part of a strategic and intentional process, the use of hashtags on Twitter can drive discourse about race and racism to generate more visibility for racial justice movements. The hashtag’s power lies in the massive number of contributors, as more tweets enhance a message’s complexity and elevate its reach. While hashtag activism is relatively new to social movement practice, the messages of #NotYourAsianSidekick are not new (Fang 2013; Ma 2013). Hashtags extend and expand ongoing struggles to shift cultural politics around racial discourse, and in this particular case, help us to better understand the intersection between anti-racism and feminism. In this chapter, I compare samples of print and digital media materials that articulate dis- courses of solidarity from the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) 1 women who are working to build a more intersectional feminist, anti-racist movement. These dis- courses can be seen as examples of intersectionality and solidarity in practice, and reveal the ways that hashtags on Twitter function as a tool for unity and specificity. The print materials come from Asian Women United (AWU)’s archives (1976–1989) and the archives of the Asian American Legal Defense Fund (1973–1993) and Asian Cinevision (1978–1990).They include letters, newsletters, pamphlets, article clippings, and brochures that reflect attempts on the part of these organizations to form women’s coalitions and participate in broader movements. These archival materials help provide the background for this specific historical moment in 16 REFLECTIONS ON #SOLIDARITY Intersectional Movements in AAPI Communities Rachel Kuo <i>The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media</i>, edited by Lori Kido Lopez, and Vincent Pham, Routledge, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4813451. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2019-09-17 13:06:48. Copyright © 2017. Routledge. All rights reserved.