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“Too high a price”: The “Terrible Honesty” of Black Women's Work in Quicksand
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 81–110.
Published: 01 September 2010
... moment in 1920sManhattan was "one of complex and double empowerment" because at the same moment that "America-at-large was separating from England and Europe, black America was recovering its own heritage from the dominant white culture" (5).Douglass asserts that Manhattan itself was a "mongrel" in its...
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Couwenbergh’s The Rape of the Negress : Visual Violence, Theological Erasure, and Black Feminist Fugitivity
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 146–168.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... The article reviews the context of the image and the art reception history that resisted naming it an image of rape. The author juxtaposes the painting with a Marian statue hidden and thus saved from the Dutch iconoclasm—now one of the most famous Black Madonnas in Europe—to locate theologically the process...
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Race and Women of Color in Socialist/Postsocialist Transnational Feminisms in Central and Southeastern Europe
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., collectives, and political alliances between postsocialist women in central and southeastern Europe and Black women and other women of color in the Global North and South will require critical conversations about how race and racial globality have constituted socialist and postsocialist women and subjects...
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An Intersectional Analysis of Sex Trafficking Films
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 208–226.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Eastern Europe and/or are men of color. The issue of sex trafficking is portrayed simplistically, in black and white terms, with a clear bad guy, innocent victim, and savior. Often these films focus on the extreme, and least common, form of trafficking: a minor being abducted off the street...
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Writing Letters as Counter-Archiving: An Afro-Nordic Feminist Care Practice
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 180–203.
Published: 01 April 2023
[email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 Black feminism counter-archiving Nordic countries Black Europe feminist methodology While I have reflected a lot on how the intricacies of oppression in the Nordic context led me to decide that I had to leave, I am still trying to figure out...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 5–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... look to the particular Black American experience and seek to universalize and apply it to Europe [,] . . . [a] dynamic . . . [that among other things] erase[s] . . . long histories of anti-imperialist struggles of Black feminists located across various European empires.” As coeditors of this special...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 April 2023
... ). By definition, to speak of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in Europe implies that these populations are distinctive from the presumptively white European. Yet European whiteness is neither natural nor long-standing. Rather, it is an invention resulting from modernity’s settler colonial, colonial...
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Flamboyant: Wildness, Loss, and Possibility in Feminist Organizing in the Netherlands
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 34–57.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of archival futurity and documentation is especially crucial for Black and WOC feminisms in Europe considering the lack of archival sites. Taking up the invitation to tend to Black and WOC feminisms within Europe thus requires a critical understanding of how regionality can be situated within...
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Matter and Memory: Black Feminist Poetics and Performance in Berlin, Germany
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 115–145.
Published: 01 April 2023
...” (Opitz, Oguntoye, and Schultz 1993 : 233). Audre Lorde was engaged in Black feminist activisms with Ayim in Berlin from 1983–92. 2 In May 1988, Lorde was invited to speak at the conference “Der Traum von Europa: Schriftsteller laden Schriftsteller ein” (“The Dream of Europe: Authors Invite...
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Intersectional Vulnerabilities and the Banality of Harm: The Dangerous Desires of Women of Color Activists
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 76–93.
Published: 01 April 2023
...-disclosure, emotional exposure, and collective caring that can constitute “bittersweet affects” and form the core of the activism of women of color in Europe. Moving away from notions of stoicism, fearlessness, and strength that are often projected onto women of color—and Black women in particular...
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Eusebia Cosme and Black Womanhood on the Transatlantic Stage
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 March 2017
... the late 1930s through the 1950s. It argues that her presentation of black womanhood engaged the transatlantic stage, or theater circuit maintained by multi-racial audiences of the Americas and Europe. A.frocubanismpaoralleled movements taking place throughout Latin America in which cultural elites drew...
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Transnational Feminist Approaches to Anti-Muslim Racism
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and their critiques of oppressive politics that masquerade as Islamic. Rabinovich brings into view veiled Muslim women in Russia who are disparagingly called “Black” and who resist their racialization in a context where Muslims are cast as civilizational others and “terrorists” by insisting that they are whiter...
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“we were two ends of one taut rope”: Audre Lorde and Black-Indigenous Relations in the Eurasian Borderlands
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 37–62.
Published: 01 April 2025
... frequently falls short in capturing the complex dynamics of Russian imperialism and its place within the broader global capitalist framework. As a non-Black and non-Indigenous queer feminist scholar from former Soviet Eastern Europe, I am particularly struck by the significance of Lorde’s engagement...
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Ama Ata Aidoo, Edna Acosta-Belén, Amrita Basu, Maryse Condé, Nell Painter, and Nawal El Saadawi speak on feminism, race, and transnationalism
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2000
... is autobiographical - IO COUNTERPOINTS OurSisterKilljoyI. didn't even know that I was black until I stepped out into Frankfurt Airport and into the city, and I saw people pointing at me as a black girl. Of course, both Europe and I have come a long way since then! I'm almost certain that today, if a young girl...
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Travelin’ Women: Black Feminist Migrations, Diasporas, and Cosmopolitanisms
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 382–388.
Published: 01 March 2017
... on a month-long cultural tour of Europe. It was a chance to become "a travelin' woman." What does it mean for a Black woman writer to be a traveling woman? How does travel affect Black women's creative and intellectual subjectivities? Alternatively, how does racialized and femalegendered experience alter...
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An Interesting Woman: A Conversation with Andrea Lee
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 507–517.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Jennifer D. Williams Copyright © 2017 Smith College 2017 JENNIFER D. WILLIAMS An InterestingWoman: A Conversationwith AndreaLee I had the pleasure of speaking to Andrea Lee twice over the course of several years about living and writing as an expatriate, traveling as a black woman, watching...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 46–55.
Published: 01 September 2016
... are usually labelled as black women's movements-later 'Afro women's movements'-in Latin America are part of the so-called "new social movements" which arose in the 1970s and gained increased traction in the 1980s. Their novelty was in the fact that their concerns were not limited to class struggles but rather...
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Decolonizing Feminisms: Accomplices, Action, and Accountability
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 14–36.
Published: 01 April 2025
... (2022) by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Becoming Kin (2022) by Patty Krawec. It examines such themes as white feminist complicity with colonial white supremacist violence, the collective survival wisdom of Indigenous and Black women, abolition, and the revolutionary potential...
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Motherwork, Daughterwork: Exploring Activist Mothering within the Latin American Diaspora in Sweden
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 58–75.
Published: 01 April 2023
... as follows: The first section introduces the Swedish racial formation with particular emphasis on the position of the Latin American diaspora. The following section presents two relevant concepts for the study of activist mothering and motherwork in a productive dialogue with Black feminist scholarship...
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Becoming “Black” and Muslim in Today’s Russia
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 396–413.
Published: 01 October 2021
... . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . West Ohueri Chelsi . 2016 . “ Mapping Race and Belonging in the Margins of Europe: Albanian, Romani, and Egyptian Sentiments .” PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin . Williams Bianca C. 2018 . The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women...
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