...Julia Sudbury Abstract This article examines the experiences of black, gender-oppressed women, and transgender activists in the anti-prison movement in the U.S. and Canada. By foregrounding the experiences of transgender and gender non-conforming activists, the author makes visible the reality...

... whichit emerged. Frustrated by the individualist approach of the pro-choice framework, a growing movement created and led by women of color has emerged to broaden the scope of reproductive rights. Calling itself the reproductive justice movement, this coalition of women of color activists and their allies...

... context from which it emerged. Last, I collected interview transcripts from the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, which is housed at the Sophia Smith Collection. Many of the feminist activists interviewed are the “founding mothers” of the reproductive justice movement, including Byllye Avery...

...Akwugo Emejulu; Francesca Sobande Abstract In this article we examine how intersectional vulnerabilities are experienced and made sense of by women of color activists in Europe. We name intersectional vulnerabilities as a broad, sometimes contradictory, set of emotions, all tied to activists...

... of self and identity. Through an analysis of the life history narrative of middleclass, Afro-Guyanese political activist Andaiye, I explore the ways in which the return home is necessarily about locating oneselfin a place from which SHE WHO RETURNED HOME 41 to engage in the struggle not just...

... rights. We envision a world where girls and women in East Africa are educated and live healthy, productive lives. ZanaAfrica also creates menstrual pads and engages in activist and policy work. Our driving mission is to realize a world in which menstrual health management is recognized as a human right...

... the activist dispositions of girls of color in a society that has actively subjugated their voices, identities, and potential requires different work than merely attending to their gender. To deconstruct the ways technology can serve as a vehicle to further patriarchal images requires an education that guides...

..., intellectual, and social activist who flourished in the first half of the nineteenth century, offers an alternative to the popular stereotype that the Qur'an and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad have historically sanctioned the abuse and low social status of women throughout the Islamic world. By focusing...

...Debra L. Schultz DEBRA L. SCHULTZ SupportingActivistWomen: BlanchWe iesenCookandFeminisBt iography Referred to as Eleanor Roosevelt's "ferociously feminist biographer" by NewYorkTimescolumnist Maureen Dowd (Dowd 1999), Blanche Wiesen Cook describes herself as an activist, journalist, and historian...

... mothers and their daughters. paulina.de_los_reyes@ekohist.su.se diana.mulinari@genus.lu.se Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 daughterwork motherwork activist mothering Latin American political diaspora We are the children who have witnessed how our mothers’ lives have been...

... and for secular feminists in Pakistan, there is great clarity on the issue that national laws should comply with universal human rights, and that the latter is the rubric for women’s rights as well. Women’s rights activists have thus advocated for the modernist project of legal reform and have defended...

...Lena Palacios Abstract This essay, with accompanying lesson plan, explores how race-radical women of color feminist activists—in particular, Black and indigenous feminists—identify, conceptualize, theorize, and resist the carceral state violence of white settler societies in both Canada...

...Cláudia Pons Cardoso; Miriam Adelman Abstract This article was written on the basis of interviews with 22 Afro-Brazilian activist women. It uses research on their trajectories to show how, as political subjects, they have used inequalities based on class, race, gender, and sexuality as instruments...

...Dorothy E. Mosby Abstract This paper is both a personal reflection and critical analysis of the circulation of the poem “Rotundamente negra” by Afro-Costa Rican poet and cultural activist Shirley Campbell among Afro-descendant women in Latin America. As I heard various recitations...

...Nishaun T. Battle Abstract “From Slavery to Jane Crow to Say Her Name” examines the ongoing social movement in the United States by Black women activists and intellectuals from as early as the nineteenth century to present day contemporary movements and campaigns such as Say Her Name, which began...

... feminisms. Written from a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) feminist perspective, the essay looks to the foundational work of Kanaka Maoli scholar-activist Haunani-Kay Trask as a too often overlooked theorist of settler colonialism writ broadly. The essay also looks more specifically at Trask’s theorizing...

..., amplified by activists on the outside and international human rights organizations documenting prison conditions, highlight rampant violations of human rights behind walls. The gendered nature of racism, which fuels the growth of the prison industrial complex, results in experiences of violence, including...

...Sudarat Musikawong Abstract Masculinity and nationalisms in Thailand during the 1970s served to enable gendered violence against activist women. Archival research and fieldwork reveal how feminist epistemologies and methods for studying memory are always gendered. Both conservative and leftist...

... progressive Canadian Muslim activists began to emerge and circulate, critiques that represent Hashmi's model of Muslim womanhood as detrimental and potentially dangerous to Canadian values. Employing a transnational feminist framework, I examine how the subject of Al-Huda and her presumed relation...