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... the Bombay score in order to show how a number of interrelated fundamentalist debates are alluded to in the text itself. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 ALEXANDRA LYNN BARRON Fire'sQueer Anti-Communalism Abstract Whilemanycriticshavepointedout howFire's (1996)receptionrevealsmuchaboutthe...

...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...

...Luiza Bairros; Sonia E. Alvarez; Miriam Adelman LUIZA BAIRROS AND SONIA E. ALVAREZ Translatedby MiriamAdelman Feminisms and Anti-Racism: Intersectionsand Challenges An interviewwith LuizaBairros, Minister,BrazilianSecretariatof PublicPolicies for the Promotionof RacialEquality(SEPPIR)2,011-2014...

... in our experience as racialized women, as well as in the ideas and theories that we have produced thus far. Our work is a valuable source that allow us to locate and comprehend the articulation of systems of oppression for our context. OCHYCURIEL RADICAL ANTI-RACIST FEMINIST PoLITICS 47 What...

... relevant but also to help sustain hope, both in ourselves and in others. Recently, I've encountered hope in an unexpected place. After twenty years of activism, writing and teaching under a variety of mantlesprimarily feminism and anti-racism, but also anti-militarism, antiimperialism, and queer liberation...

...Frances Kim Russell FRANCES KIM RUSSELL Anti-Manifesto After the struggle, the body learns to float. The core finds buoyancy while limbs sway to and fro, keeping head above water. And even as the bones begin to enjoy the slow rise, fall, push,pull of current and tide, even as the skin begins...

... of Nabra Hassanen in Reston, Virginia. This author argues that the denial of these cases as hate crimes contributes to the diminishment of anti-Muslim racism and should be understood as a form of racial gaslighting—a systematic denial of the persistence and severity of racism. In conversation with those...

... that women are universally coerced into wearing this garment despite empirical research noting that women wear the niqab as an expression of faith. The treatment of niqab-wearing women requires close attention to the transnational routes of legalized anti-Muslim racism. Bans or attempts to ban the niqab...

... War period were marked, undoubtedly, by US racism and condescension toward the populations of Asia and Africa—but, significantly, not by the distinct and overt anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racism of the late– and the post–Cold War eras. This created a space for Muslim women in countries like Egypt...

...Zeynep K. Korkman; Sherene Halida Razack [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 This special issue brings together feminist scholars to theorize anti-Muslim racism. It specifically attends to an understanding of anti-Muslim racism...

...Zeynep K. Korkman Abstract As critiques of anti-Muslim racism travel transnationally, they get translated in relation to complex histories of imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism, and nationalism. These (mis)translations produce unexpected uses and abuses of anti-Muslim racism as an academic...

... and the United States. This critical ethnic studies intervention focuses on the theoretical interventions driven by indigenous and Black race-radical feminists and how this has placed these activists at the forefront of anti-violence movement-building. Such an intervention specifically upholds the tensions...

...Tatiana Rabinovich Abstract Global anti-Muslim racism takes new and specific forms in contemporary Russia by mobilizing the shifting meanings of “Blackness” to stigmatize vulnerable populations. Stemming from the tsarist and Soviet pasts, these meanings of “Blackness” (and “whiteness”) have been...

... the Women's Committee of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). Beal's story captures the challenges of anti-racist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist organizing with a gender perspective. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 FRANCES M. BEAL AND LORETTA J. ROSS Excerpts from the Voiceos...

...-profit project as an outcome of dynamic interactions among a constellation of both global and local feminist forces and agents. It shows that the formation of the project combines three interwoven processes, which include 1) the emergence of women's NGOs and the rise of anti-domestic violence activism...

...Wendy Thompson Taiwo Abstract In this personal essay, the author analyzes what it means to be black and Asian American in a nation where racial capital determines social value and non-black immigrants are encouraged to uphold and abide by anti-black systems, policies, and practices. Narrating her...

...Minoo Moallem Abstract This article focuses on anti-Muslim racism as a discourse that collapses race and religion and cannot be reduced to phobia. It is instead about a racial project of accumulation based on European superiority and how cultural racism upholds the European civilizational project...

...Malia Lee Womack Abstract The United States does not meet global human rights standards regarding economic, social, and cultural rights. In 1994 the United States ratified the United Nations core anti-racism treaty, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial...

...Erica R. Meiners Abstract Using recent work by anti-prison theorists and community-based activists who are working against the prison industrial complex, this article links prison abolition to feminist frameworks to question escalating sex offender registries and community notification laws...

...Sharmila Lodhia Abstract Anti-violence activism for women in India has been riddled with a unique advocacy challenge. Women experiencing violence within the home confront a widespread backlash against Penal Code section 498A, the only criminal law in India that specifically encompasses domestic...