Podcasts Culture Fifty Feminist States: Interviews with Feminist Activists and Artists Across the U.S. Episode 36 - Forgotten feminists and Japanese-American culture in the Pacific Northwest with Mayumi Tsutakawa

Episode 36 - Forgotten feminists and Japanese-American culture in the Pacific Northwest with Mayumi Tsutakawa

Published: Feb. 20, 2020, 11 a.m.

In this episode, Amelia speaks with Mayumi Tsutakawa, a Japanese-American writer and curator from Seattle. They discuss her family\u2019s influence on the art world, her career as a journalist and curator, and her new lecture \u201cWashington\u2019s Undiscovered Feminists\u201d that tells the stories of five remarkable, but often unsung, women from Washington.

Mayumi also reflects on the past and present of the feminist movement, and shares about her family\u2019s history at Japanese internment camps through the story of her maternal grandmother.

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