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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 465–489.
Published: 01 October 2024
... community through the establishment of groups like the Arab Lesbian Network. The establishment of queer Arab American social groups worked in the service of both building queer Arab American community and as a foundation from which to conduct certain forms of out queer Arab American activism...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... excludability from allegedly more progressive nations. In a piece called “Reflections of a Genderqueer Palestinian American Lesbian Mother,” Huda Jadallah (founder of one of the first public networks for Arab lesbians in California in the 1980s) writes: Growing up I was always keenly aware of being...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 394–413.
Published: 01 October 2019
... a multiracial delegation of lesbian and straight women that visited Sandinista Nicaragua in 1984 after receiving an invitation from the Asociación de Mujeres Nicaragüenses Luisa Amanda Espinosa. Somos Hermanas thus emerged as an organization following this first trip. The group recognized itself as national...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 298–301.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and political life; Islamic fundamentalism was on hand to shore up a dualistic moral framework of good and evil. Islamic fundamentalism functions both as a transnational movement and a system of representation. It moves by way of global networks of communication, trade, and travel; its vectors are money, ideas...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean was the founding conference of the NetworkofAfro-LatinAmericanand CaribbeanWomenin 1992 in the Dominican Republic. It was the first network of its kind in the region, setting the stage for the organizational webs of Afro-Latin American social movements by the end of that decade...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 124–140.
Published: 01 March 2010
... extreme and frequent forms of racism in France that targeted blacks and so-called "'Arab' immigrants." Still, I started to feel under siege. Anti-Semitic attacks were commonplace. By2000, the numbers had soared and gotten closer to home: the kosher grocery store where I used to park got fire-bombed...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 42–65.
Published: 01 March 2010
... on women of color and reproductive rights; it KIMALA PRICE WHAT IS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE? 45 coincided with the 1987March for Women's Lives. Some smaller prochoice organization such as the Reproductive Rights National Network (R2R.2)placed race, class, and LGBTissues at the center of their mission (Fried...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 340–362.
Published: 01 December 2020
... March for Women’s Lives. Some smaller prochoice organization such as the Reproductive Rights National Network (R2N2) placed race, class, and LGBT issues at the center of their mission (Fried 2007 ). Nevertheless, many women of color activists have expressed their frustrations with working within...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 41–66.
Published: 01 March 2002
... in Nigeria in 1906 (Amadiume 2000), conveyedto women the ideal ofbeauty defined as looking more European. In the case of Muslim women, Arab and Indian films had a similar effect. Some may see embodying the Other as inversions and ways of subverting local control. But subverting to whose benefit...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., as well as a site of real skirmish between poor people and the official sellers of permits and the police; one has only to think of the Tunisian street vendor who set himself alight, sparking the Arab Spring revolts across North Africa and the Middle East. Street markets are also one of the few public...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
... inhabited by female women and men's prisons inhabited by male men, out of a population that in actuality embraces an immense range of gender diversity. In addition to transsexual prisoners who may or may not be on hormones and/or in the process of transitioning surgically, this includes butch lesbians...
