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... the levers that make things happen around here. We deserve to be listened to with kindness and openness—the sweet kind of listening we know and experience from our favorite Aunties—who always help us understand and feel that our presence and contributions matter. We deserve to have teachers in our...

..., when the settler-colonial monster oozes toward you with the intention of suffocating your hope, your spirit, your love . . . gather up whatever kindness and care you have left in your power . . . and join us in sitting quietly, respectfully, and ready to soak up Auntie’s precious teachings. —Michelle...

... enlarge. "Adrinker and a liar!" he shouted and started hitting me everywhere. I screamed and screamed and finally got free and ran to my room. I opened the closet and closed the door behind me and prayed to God the fire would burn elsewhere. Auntie Maysoun made a party for my twelfth birthday. She cooked...

... that a sexual transaction is required of her. Presumably one's education acts as a buffer, but in spite of her medical degree, Ifemelu's Aunty Uju begins an illicit relationship with The General, an older, married, top official, in order to make her way into the medical profession. Without his endorsement she...

... minutes under the blocks. After this, God sent someone else to pull me out. We hit the road and went to the hospital. It was then I saw that it was everywhere. That really struck me. That was very sad.-Marie-Jeanne, Poto Mitan The children who were in the entryway came and called "Auntie!Auntie! Auntie...

... in between their thighs?    Because how dare we sleep on strange land    without blessing? There are black eyed peas in my auntie’s coin purse. She keeps moonlight in there too.    Because luck is far more precious than loose change. Tell me how your sister folds indigo leaves between her...

... the same forwards and backwards home home coming coming home home the one that shames the judge and the legislators the one that makes the people feel invincible the one that makes your mom and aunties feel like i must have known you before they strung your name up in headlines the one that accidentally...

... as Fish enumerates them include her self-conception as a "yellow" woman who is between black and white, British and Jamaican identities, a Crimean heroine who defies norms of propriety, a female picaro, a nonsexual "aunty" in Panama, and "mother" at the Crimean front. Seacole's multiplicity manifested...

... Pilkington/Nugi Garimara uses the personal history of her mother and her Aunties' initial escape from Neville's racist SHIFTING CONTEXTS, SHAPING EXPERIENCES 47 miscegenation project of state-sponsored assimilation to reconstruct the history of colonialization in Australia. The first four of nine short...

... the stain of his "halfbreed" existence and whose home becomes even more alien to him when Tayo returns from the war that killed Auntie's son: "He lay there with the feeling that there was no place left for him, he would find no peace in that house where the silence and the emptiness echoed the loss" (32...

... for too many are just debutante balls! 14 The pedagogical space, the studio, is one many who are familiar with dance in South Asian communities affectionately refer to as “auntie’s basement,” a shorthand for the social and kinship structures that define both womanhood and dancerhood...

..., involves touching for maintenance and upkeep. In black communities especially, hairstyling is an intimate endeavor. From childhood, the hairstyling experience—of sitting on the floor (with or without a pillow) for hours in between a mama, grandma, auntie, or neighborhood friend’s legs, getting hands popped...

... of a multinational or transnational, McDonald's describes itself as a "multi-local." Led by young people and children, Beijing consumers have embraced and appropriated McDonald's food and culture (Yan1997, 72-3). McDonald's has introduced special "children's paradises," special Auntie or Uncle McDonald...

... of home with the making of families. Our interviewees recall forms of making families where narrow notions of biology are challenged and alternative forms of family, kin, and community are forged in solidarity with the political struggle. In Mariana’s words, I think about all the tías (aunties...

... and always "Auntie," never eroticized (or subtly so in Bennu's work when presented as a potential love interest for "Runaway Billie Dee Williams Because of such portrayals, Tubman is not allowed to iconically "grow up," and sexual portraits of this historical figure become nearly impossible to imagine...

...”), it represented her point of consciousness, her choice of radical resistance, and the way she fervently instilled her consciousness work and manner of resistance in and to her son. In their private roles as mothers, aunties, teachers, and community members, those same Black women also pose a greater...

... of her, I would spend hours daydreaming about what she looked like, and what she might have been like. Did she wear traditional garb like my auntie? How did she wear her hair? I wondered what she smelled like, and what her specialty dish might have been. I think I felt such profound loss over never...

... have historically used the word to replace the term auntie , which whites used to refer to a Black nursemaid for a white family. Figure 2. Figure 2. Likewise, many African American and Native American activists have rejected white feminist sisterhood and located solidarity not with white...

... school in Muscat. For her, the crossing over ofmehndi in the U.S. is not a new phenomenon; Ameena's first observation of mehndi being worn by a white person was, in fact, at a school event a few years ago in Oman where "desi aunties" applied henna for European students. She commented, "I didn't see...

... from Auntie Maree, is that process of making and the journey being part of that whole narrative.” —artist Mitch Mahoney (Boonwurrung / Wamba Wamba / Barkindji), Artery: A Podcast on Art, Authorship, and Anthropology , episode 1 This visual essay is a collaborative effort to share some...