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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 77–80.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of village girls and muffle her strange lullabies to Baby Sister, dead from diarrhea and cold war before she could claim even one birthday. Sen.9ilc, hukahamnida.Happy Birthdays to You. She insists on keeping both. One birthday for the naturalized, tennis-playing mother behind Louis Vuitton sunglasses...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 214–221.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Nikky Finney Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 NIKKY FINNEY Inquisitor and Insurgent BlackWomanwithPencilS, harpened I was a small town girl with a big love for writing sticks. My birthday fell at the end of August, the last week of summer, the first week of the new school year. My early...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 142.
Published: 01 September 2018
... could read and talk about Pushkin, Mandelstam and even the long dead Gumilyov at your own pace, your own leisure. There was the special bouquet, for your seventy-fifth birthday, gathered by a firm friendly hand from your garden. The artist sketch of you, magnificent, a simple dress in the pale bruised...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 136–146.
Published: 01 April 2020
...” (Suryakusuma 1996 : 100). Wirjohatmodjo’s commemoration of Kartini in the United States allowed the Indonesian government to proclaim its nascent women’s rights ideals abroad as it forged its national identity in the new community of nations. Despite a history of celebrating Kartini’s birthday, Kartini...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 246–247.
Published: 01 April 2021
... a birthday balloon, the electric zap cracked chest, puppy whimpers in the backlit light, the once and only flatline note turned air to ash and tears to saline drip of lost time, time codes, a call for the darkly beloved to scamper through this plastic tubing, red tape, tape decks, stacked decks...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
..., in search of her kin, including a lost daughter and mother (Hartman 2007 ). When my mother asked what I wanted for my forty-second birthday, I told her that I wanted her to mark my death. I had decided that the version of me that had been birthed by her needed to die, and that someone else needed...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 October 2020
...-of-age fifteenth birthday party is commonly celebrated throughout Latin America, the Hispanic Caribbean, Spain, and the Latin@ United States. It is usually quite elaborate, with the birthday girl wearing a ball gown, tiara, and high heels for the “first” time, and typically includes a male escort...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 208–226.
Published: 01 March 2014
...,a middle-aged white man named Bryan quits his job as a CIA investigator so he can live near his estranged daughter Kim and develop a relationship with her. His life, however, is pathetic. In the opening scene Bryan sits in a dark room watching films of Kim's fifth birthday party. He gives his daughter...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (2): 102–105.
Published: 01 March 2010
... lawfully wedded partner. We eloped this summer, to celebrate our 40th anniversary, and the 40th anniversary of Stonewall. We eloped to Bill Preston's deck on Martha's Vineyard-our annual July visit for several decades, a John Jay thing-to celebrate Jerry Markowitz's birthday. Bill, our former chair, Jerry...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 8–13.
Published: 01 April 2019
... had not the bodies to see. how do we breathe across generations. ask yourself. this is not the power of positive thinking. this is no birthday wish in smoke. this is existence or absence. no joke. 4 between you and me, we knew it would never work. just because the singing of the whales had...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 253–260.
Published: 01 October 2021
... the curtains of my room. When our house burned down my first year of boarding school on the day before her fiftieth birthday, she told me, “Who else gets the opportunity to start their life all over again?” She calls me almost every day to tell me about her grand plans for the future. “I want to write...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 143–162.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and residents organized a surprise birthday party for me and a small baby shower before the birth of my son. It is to the issue of involvement in the lives of individual shelter residents that I now turn with a second example from my fieldwork. Midway through my fieldwork, I met Casandra, a resident...
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Meridians (2010) 10 (1): 32–53.
Published: 01 September 2010
... appetite since it marks one of the few times he plays the role of emotional provider to another family member rather than the mere recipient oflvah's care. It is Maisie's birthday and return to voice that occasions this first overnight gathering. The youngest Ogata had become mute following Eleanor's death...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 142–152.
Published: 01 September 2014
... thirtieth birthday), Julia journeyed for hours to find an access point to the Combahee River, we discovered on our way there that we were following in Harriet's footsteps. She had first journeyed to South Carolina to begin the work that would result in the Combahee River Uprising that same week 150 years...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 512–537.
Published: 01 October 2022
... by an off-duty officer while attending a fish fry, on a day just shy of her twenty-fifth birthday. Her death was ruled an accident, which resulted in the officers not being charged and held to account. In both instances, in the period following Danye’s and Adaisha’s deaths, the mothers engaged in campaigns...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 40–65.
Published: 01 September 2004
... everybody know. Andaiye remembers that "all hell broke loose." Soon thereafter, Andaiye celebrated her birthday. She says: And then I may be putting these together and they don't fit. But I think it was shortly after [that] it was my birthday. And all my friends from outside the hospital, who didn't know...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 457–470.
Published: 01 October 2019
... their letters, appeals, with UNHCR, with their files, taking video testimonies, organizing cultural events, celebrations, and birthdays. In the summer many of the migrant workers who are part of the center bring their children when they are at work and children don’t have school in the summer, so a few children...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 53–64.
Published: 01 March 2001
... 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...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 39–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Rani and Tulsi. He always imagined that he would have a daughter who would go to iss-kool like the lady doctor who saved Tulsi’s life after her head swelled to twice its size on her first birthday. His mother had invoked god and expressed the desire for a son to replace this unnecessary grandchild...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 69–86.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that reflected Walling’s vision and invited Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of the great abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and publisher of the New York Evening Post , to join them. In an article coinciding with Lincoln’s birthday in February, Villard published what became known as “The Call...
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