CV — Tiffany Diane Tso

ASIAN AMERICAN FEMINIST COLLECTIVE | co-founder
VOYEUR | creator

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | Austin, TX
Bachelor’s of Journalism | Multimedia Journalism
Minor: English | Dean’s List | Activities: White Rose Society

GENERAL ASSEMBLY | New York, NY
Digital Marketing

PEOPLE’S FORUM | New York, NY
Revolutionary Feminism

PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS/CHAPTERS

2025 | Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities: An Anthology | co-edited with Jaimee Swift, Rachel Kuo | Under Contract, Haymarket Press

2024 | “Asian American Feminist Roundtable on Media for World-Building” | Contemporary Asian American Politics | editors: Diane Wong and Mark Tseng-Putterman | Under Review, New York University Press

2021 | But I Am Here: Speeches, Writing & Art from the Sex Worker Movement in New York City | co-edited with Kate Zen | Oldest Profession Productions

PUBLICATIONS - SELECT WRITING

2022 | The Riot Grrrl Movement Introduced Me To Feminism, HuffPost

2022 | Not Victims: On Global Sex Worker Organizing, The Margins

2022 | A Chinese-Japanese Couple Use Photos to Question Gender, Power, and Nation, gal-dem

2021 | Finding Solidarity And Survival Within A Transnational, Intergenerational Zoom Dance Party, The Margins

2021 | Racism and sexualization of Asian women pushes them into low-wage jobs, Prism Reports

2020 | Here’s How You Can Help Sex Workers During the COVID-19 Outbreak, Rewire News Group

2019 | After 170 Years, the 'Sideways Asian Vagina' Myth Still Won't Go Away, Mel Magazine

2019 | 'Hustlers' And The Evolution Of Asian Sex Workers On-Screen, HuffPost

2019 | Can Marriott Employees Combat Sex Trafficking? Why Sex Workers Don't Think So, Refinery29

2019 | How Black-Asian Conflict Plays Out In New York City's Elite High Schools, Refinery29

2019 | How Asian-American Dominatrixes Use Stereotypes to Their Advantage in the Fetish World, Allure

2018 | Nail Salon Brawls & Boycotts: Unpacking The Black-Asian Conflict In America, Refinery29

2018 | The Bamboo Glass Ceiling, Slate

PUBLICATIONS - SELECT EDITING

2021 | To Us And Ours, Asian American Feminist Collective x Kundiman

2021 | Anti-Asian Racism is a Reproductive Justice Issue. We Must Address It, If/When/How

2021 | Real/Imagined, Asian American Feminist Collective

2020 | We Lead The World’s Liberation: A Conversation with Sex Work Activists SX Noir And Kate Zen, Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins

2020 | I Survived Gender-Affirming Surgery During a Pandemic, Rewire News Group

2019 | First Times, Asian American Feminist Collective

VIDEO PRODUCTION

2021 | HEAR US RISE EXHIBIT WALKTHROUGH | Wing Luke Museum

2018 | INSIDE THE WORLD OF ASIAN DOMMES IN NEW YORK | Dazed

2016 | STUDIO NITE VOL 1 | PHHHOTO

WORKSHOPS + PANELS + TALKS

March 1, 2023 | Techno-Orientalism and Strategies Against Violence | Recess (speaker)
July 9, 2022 | Anti-Asian Violence Forum | Ma-Yi Theatre (speaker)
May 19, 2021 | Asian American Feminist Writing Workshop Final Reading | Kundiman, virtual (organizer)
April 28, 2021 | Black and Asian Feminist Perspectives on Immigration | Off-White x Black Discourse, virtual (speaker)
April 12, 2021 | Sex Work in a Transnational Context | Informal, Criminalized, Precarious: Sex Workers Organizing Against Barriers virtual conference (organizer, moderator)
April 8, 2021 | Sex Work & Migration | Informal, Criminalized, Precarious: Sex Workers Organizing Against Barriers virtual conference (organizer, moderator)
March 30, 2021 | Asian American Feminist Media Making | Harvard - Ethnicity, Migration & Rights (speaker)
March 5, 2021 | Community Care and Mutual Aid Efforts | Free Healing Event for AAPI Community | Ethel’s Club, virtual (workshop leader)
March 2 + 3, 2021 | Asian American Feminist History in Action + Class Visit | Cornell University, virtual (speaker, co-facilitator)
February - May 2021 | Asian American Feminist Writing Workshop | Kundiman, virtual (co-facilitator)
January 31, 2021 | Stories from the South: Archiving Your Family History | Asian American Resource Center x Austin History Center, virtual (speaker)
January 28, 2021 | Siblings in Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities Launch | Asian American Writer’s Workshop, virtual (organizer)
October 6, 2020 | Anti-Racism: Storytelling in Education and Awareness | AAIFF43 (speaker)
August 6, 2020 | This Bridge Called My Back Book Club with Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey | Asia Society (co-facilitator)
June 25-28 2020 | Building an Asian American Feminist Movement | Allied Media Conference, virtual (coordinator)
April 30, 2020 | Sisters and Siblings in the Struggle: COVID-19 + Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities | Black Women Radicals, virtual (speaker)
April 25, 2020 | How to Combat Anti-Asian Racism | Spicy Zine, virtual (co-facilitator)
March 7, 2020 | Asian American Feminist History in Action | Wing Luke Museum (co-facilitator)
January 9, 2020 | Asian American Feminist History in Action | Ethel’s Club (co-facilitator)
November 2, 2019 | Digital Organizing & Unionizing in the Workplace | Women, Action, & The Media | People’s Forum (facilitator)
August 11, 2019 | Chinatown Beautification Day | Chinatown Youth Initiatives | Museum of Chinese in America (speaker)
July 28, 2019 | AAIFF42: AAPI Culture Writers and Critics | Asian Cinevision | Asia Society (facilitator)
May 30, 2019 | Asian American Feminist History in Action | The Wing Soho (organizer, co-facilitator)
May 18, 2019 | Coalitions: Recounting Pasts, Presents and Futures Journalism Panel | Asian American Leadership Forum for Youth (speaker)
April 26, 2019 | Building Asian American Feminist Movements | AAAS conference (co-facilitator)
March 27, 2019 | Asian American Feminism: Building Feminist Politics | NYU Gallatin (co-presenter)
March 13, 2019 | Dreaming Our Futures: A Transnational Asian Feminisms Gathering | NYU (co-organizer)
January 10, 2019 | Asian Dominatrixes: Film Screening + Panel Discussion | Banana Magazine | The Wing (speaker)
June 19, 2018 } Storytelling and Gender-Based Violence in Our Communities | NYU (co-facilitator)
April 22, 2018 | Queering Asian American Feminism | NAPAWF NYC | New Women Space (organizer)
June 2, 2017 | Asian American Feminism x Politics | NAPAWF NYC | Museum of Chinese in America (co-organizer)
April 11, 2017 | Asian American Feminist Organizing in NYC | NAPAWF NYC | NYU Silver Center (co-organizer)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

INTERNSHIPS

PROJECTS

EVENTS + CURATION

PUBLIC SPEAKING

SELECT PRESS/INTERVIEWS

2022 | “We Were Supposed to Help Asian Migrant Women—Instead We Got Police” | The Nation (quoted)
2022 | “The Rise of Anti-Asian Hate” | In The Thick (podcast interview)
2021 | “Making Asian American Pacific Islander History 2021” | Good Morning America (nomination)
2021 | “Meet The Organizers Who Serve (& Have Been Serving) Asian American Communities” | Refinery29 (feature)
2021 | “Home care workers say: Pay back stolen wages, end 24-hour workday!” | Liberation News (quoted)
2021 | “#OldProProject2021 New York, NY” | The Oldest Profession Podcast (interview)
2020 | “The Asian American Feminist Collective Creating International Frameworks” | Keke Magazine (interview)
2020 | “Anti-Asian Racism Is On the Rise During Coronavirus — But It’s Nothing New” | Teen Vogue (interview)
2019 | “How Do We Make the Revolution Fun?” | Sweet and Sour (podcast interview)
2019 | “AAFC on Interrogating What It Means To Be Asian in America” | Spicy Zine (interview)
2019 | “The Unstoppable Asian American Feminist Collective Creating Spaces” | Mochi Magazine (interview)
2018 | “Sam Sanders Gives Us A Minute” | Strange Fruit (podcast interview)
2018 | “Building Asian American Feminism: In Conversation with the Asian American Feminist Collective” | Reappropriate (interview)
2015 | “#NYFW Diary: Tiffany Diane” | Steve Madden (feature)
2013 | “Incoming Freshmen 2013” | Ladygunn Magazine (feature)
2012 | “Tiffany Diane: A Certified Snap Snap Snap Voyeur” | Bleach Online (interview)
2012 | “LomoAmiga Tiffany Tso Shoots with the La Sardina in Texas” | Lomography (feature)

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2023 | A4 & MoCADA | Bandung Resident
2022 | ASIAN WOMEN GIVING CIRCLE | Arts and Activism Grantee