 Paradoxically, Asian American women are also rendered invisible in various feminist movements and discourses. Asian American feminist discussions on invisibility differ from other discussions within Continental feminism on visibility and feminine erasure due to their dual existence as both invisible subjects and hypervisible representations of stereotypes. Poet and activist Mitsuye Yamada states that Asian American women are “the visible minority that is invisible” (1981b). Yamada means this claim in two ways: first, in regard to how Asian American women are rendered invisible in conversations surrounding women of color oppressions; and second, in regard to how the oppressions experienced by Asian American women are often invisible to themselves. In order to carve out a space for themselves in feminist theorizing, Asian American women in this book shared their stories that demonstrate the struggle of becoming visible to oneself while existing in a world that constantly demands one’s invisibility. Yamada’s explains how she was invisible to herself because she practiced passive resistance while believing that others did not see her as the stereotype of an Asian American women. In order to become visible to herself and others, she realized that she must act in ways, such as displaying anger in response to sexist and racist acts, that an oppressive gaze would claim was “uncharacteristic” of her as an Asian American woman (1981b: 40). At the same time, the Model Minority myth can also paradoxically render Asian American women invisible by making them hypervisible as successful paradigms that are perceived as lacking experiences of oppression and violence and thus have no credibility to speak to these lived experiences.