 In This Bridge Called My Back (Moraga &amp; Anzaldúa 1981 [2015]), Asian American thinkers such as Genny Lim, Merle Woo, Nellie Wong, and Mitsuye Yamada established their positions in feminist theorizing by exploring their own perspectives on topics surrounding gendered identity, sexuality, silencing, the feeling of not-belonging, and living against stereotypes of Asian American women as docile, quiet, agreeable, and submissive. Similarly, in This Bridge We Call Home (Anzaldúa &amp; Keating 2002), Minh-ha T. Pham, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, and Jid Lee theorize from the specific experiences that they face as Asian American immigrant women, such as exploring a connection to an Asian mother who emigrated to the United States, navigating the cultural connection they still hold to a land that they may have never visited, and living in the face of the Model Minority myth while also subverting the stereotype. Writings that center the perspective of the Asian American and diasporic Asian woman are essential for Asian American feminist theorizing, for, as Sonia Shah emphasized,