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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 137–165.
Published: 01 December 2016
... 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...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 522–547.
Published: 01 December 2020
... 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 within and refuses to collapse political approaches of Indigenous movements for sovereignty and Black race-radical traditions...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 120–124.
Published: 01 March 2004
.... However, the anti-violence movement has always contested this notion of safety at home. The notion that violence only happens "out there," inflicted by the stranger in the dark alley makes it difficult to recognize that the home is in fact the place of greatest danger for women. In response...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 491–503.
Published: 01 October 2021
... critique of heteropatriarchal anti-Muslim racism, we need to build the alternative we want to see now. As Black Abolitionist Feminism teaches us, resistance to structures like mass incarceration must entail both ending systemic violence and building the world we want beyond the structures of imprisonment...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 66–99.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the movement reclaimed the traditional human rights frame to redefine gender violence, and also raised an international tide of anti-gender violence activism by applying human rights strategies (Dickenson 1997;Dorsey 1997;Keck and Sikkink 1998;Waterman 1998;Berkovitch 1999; Smith 2000; Antrobus and Sen 2006...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 439–464.
Published: 01 October 2024
...-capitalist, anti-racist, and queer space that ran counter to white, bourgeois feminism in Puerto Rico. It was a space under construction, hence the name Colectiva Feminista en Construcción. Vanesa explained the construction aspect of the collective, describing it as “a group of feminists building something...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
... work, particularly around a common resistance to capitalist exploitation. The emergence of the global justice, anti-war, and anti-prison movements in the 1990s and 2000s marks a resurgence of movement-building based on a shared political analysis rather than on a shared social location. ro...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 237–248.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... Testimonies by Filipina migrant workers, lesbian activists in South Africa, and Palestinian women living in refugee camps were a key in building feminist alliances. Viola Casares of Fuerza Unida, a Latina worker's organization at the forefront of the early anti-globalization movement, gave testimony...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
... is dead, and it only remains for the corpse to be buried. —Asian Women’s Conference Works Cited Armstrong Elisabeth . 2016 . “ Before Bandung: The Anti-imperialist Women’s Movement in Asia and the Women’s International Democratic Federation .” Signs 41 , no. 2 : 305 – 31...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 93–102.
Published: 01 March 2004
... in horrible ways at the center of appeals has proven a very successful means of building the political will to try to address various manifestations of gender-specific violence. But she also says that this approach can undermine an image of women as empowered agents or political actors in the popular...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Gahman. This “In the Trenches” piece presents the principles of “feminist development justice” articulated by grassroots social movements of the Global South “that are decidedly anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and anti-patriarchal” counterpoints to “‘modern’ development programs...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 490–509.
Published: 01 October 2024
... racism in both Tunisia and France. It details Abdelhamid’s trajectory in becoming conscious of her Black and African identities, her complex relationship with her Arab identity, her role in building the Black movement in Tunisia after the 2011 revolution, and her arrival in France and experiences...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 110–132.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement . Chicago : Haymarket . Elia Nada . 2021a . “ How Palestine Is a Critical Feminist Issue .” Middle East Eye , March 25 . Elia Nada . 2021b . “ Israel-Palestine: How Subcontracting the Occupation Fuels Gendered Violence .” Middle East...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 163–192.
Published: 01 September 2005
... collective organization to the growing discursive weight of human rights discourses during the 1990s, whose extensive transnational networks and access to funds allowed them to take charge of the anti-acid campaign also medicalized the issue of acid violence, and it established a model of providing short...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 131–138.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the recent events of the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, but moreover erasing the personal experiences of many immigrants and U.S. people of color for whom “America” has been a site of potential or realized violence for all of their lives. Sixth, our transnational feminist response involves...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 302–308.
Published: 01 March 2002
... vulnerability, overlooking not only the recent events of the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, but moreover erasing the personal experiences of many immigrants and U.S. people of color for whom "America" has been a site of potential or realized violence for all of their lives. Sixth, our transnational...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 92–111.
Published: 01 September 2001
... interest in the extraordinary range in the forms of women's activism, from the left to the right of the political spectrum, and from feminist to anti-feminist movements. I am interested in developing a fuller, richer conception offeminism and social movements by considering these varied forms of activism...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
... should be at the forefront of this work because SORs raise, as this article has demonstrated, central questions about building sustainable anti-prison movements that center the lives of women as those most vulnerable. But further research, grounded in local organizing, is needed to document and theorize...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2016
... strategically orchestrated to include people of African descent from a variety of places, range of colors, and ethnic diversities-was coined in within the Afro-Latin American feminist movement in the context of building transnational networks of Black social movements in the process toward the Durban conference...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 261–270.
Published: 01 October 2021
... government of Turkey that has appropriated globally resonant progressive critiques of anti-Muslim racism. Turkey, under the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, proclaims itself antiracist and draws on the North American vocabulary of the civil rights, Black power, and Black Lives Matter movements to mark its...