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Safe Motherhood Initiative: Whither African Indigenous Birthing Knowledge?
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 263–294.
Published: 01 April 2024
...Esther Oluwashina Ajayi-Lowo Abstract In the quest to create global maternal health care protocols, African Indigenous birthing epistemologies are often overlooked in research, policy, and advocacy aiming to improve maternal health and reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). The global maternal...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
...: a hui hou . Moving from Indigenous matriarchy to motherhood, Esther Oluwashina Ajayi-Lowo’s In the Trenches essay, “Safe Motherhood Initiative: Whither African Indigenous Birthing Knowledge?,” critiques the coloniality of the World Health Organization’s Safe Motherhood Initiative (SMI). The SMI...
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Making Way for Ghosts and M others : Storied Socialities, Sexual Violence, and the Figure of the Furtive Migrant
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 206–226.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., the fugitivity of a morning when two young girls buried a baby served not as the advent of a transformational epistemological moment but rather introduced the beginning of many disappearances my mother would intimately encounter in her migration toward the West. 1971. Karachi (then, West) Pakistan. Eight...
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Speaking for Ourselves: Reclaiming, Redesigning, and Reimagining Research on Black Women’s Health
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 219–229.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., and lovers of all things Black Feminist and Womanist, sat down at the National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference in Montreal and strategized. We reimagined a way of life for the health of Black girls and women. We explored philosophies of science, considered ontologies and epistemologies...
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When My Brown Got Colored: Living through/in the Times of White and Brahmanical Supremacy
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2023
... for personal, epistemological, and political purposes. In moving from Narendra Modi’s India to Donald Trump’s America, I found myself in the midst of a right-wing restoration. Moving to the United States meant experiencing the heightening of racialized right-wing politics, whereas in India I lived...
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Profoundly Decolonizing? Reflections on a Transfeminist Perspective of International Relations
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 184–213.
Published: 01 September 2018
... South(s)-focused epistemologies. This article is penned from the clearly proven premise that the time has come for IR to come of age, to become a truly international discipline, in which "Western," "white," "cisgender," and "heteronormative" should no longer be the prerequisites to receive...
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Post Partum Blues I & II Consanguinidad Virtual/Virtual Consanguinity
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 68–80.
Published: 01 March 2004
... to expose a few underlying assumptions. Modernism's large debt to the notion of the "primitive," used as critical ground for what became a marker of cultural development-makes it epistemologically problematic, if not impossible, for me to legitimately engage with abstraction in painting, since I am...
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Mi Casa Is Not Su Casa : A Research Reflection
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 October 2020
... organization and her father’s experiences growing up in Harlem to better understand what it means to strategically navigate sites of inclusion and exclusion. This reflection is written in the spirit of testimonio in an effort to honor and extend Latina feminist epistemologies and contribute to scholarship...
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Meridians (2025) 24 (1): 137–164.
Published: 01 April 2025
... don’t have freedom of mobility and are denied movement due to closures, checkpoints and a segregation-apartheid wall. Before moving to the UK, I lived in Ramallah in the West Bank, but I am totally separated from my family in Gaza—my place of birth. I can’t go to Gaza or Jerusalem or Palestinian lands...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 297–305.
Published: 01 October 2024
... responsibility and economic efficiency of free trade without holding social structures (governmental, economic, epistemological, and technological, to name a few) accountable.” Reckoning with the legacies of the social harm wrought by the interrelated forces of global capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy...
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Structural Trauma
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 29–50.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to Decolonization in a Settler Colony: Re-introducing Black Feminist Identity Politics .” AlterNative 14 , no. 3 : 190 – 99 . Dotson Kristie . 2017b . “ Theorizing Jane Crow, Theorizing Unknowability .” Social Epistemology 31 , no. 5 : 417 – 30 . http://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2017.1346721...
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Race and Women of Color in Socialist/Postsocialist Transnational Feminisms in Central and Southeastern Europe
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., in 1972, between a young Muslim girl in socialist Bulgaria and African American feminist Angela Davis. This encounter is linked to postsocialist Romani feminisms explicitly rooted in African American women's epistemologies of intersectionality to confront racism and anti-Gypsyism in the European Union...
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Authority, History, and Everyday Mysticism in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton: A Womanist View
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 36–57.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to scratch the surface of the religious and epistemological meanings inherent in the poet's work-meanings that have deep affinities with womanist wisdom. Using a framework informed by Walker's womanism, African American literary studies, and the history of Afro-Atlantic religions, this essay explores...
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Beyond Black Girlhood: An Underground Railroad to Nowhere
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 528–547.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Season , and Binti from Nnedi Okorafor’s ( 2015 ) novel of the same name. In Dawn , Lilith gains agency by both choosing to lead a team of humans to resettle the ravaged earth and choosing to give birth to a human-oankali (alien) hybrid child. In Okorafor’s novel, the Himba girl, Binti, becomes part...
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Writing Castelessly: Brahminical Supremacy in Education, Feminist Knowledge, and Research
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 October 2023
... nationalist formations, the appearance of Brahminical attachment to liberal postcolonial modernity serviced active Brahminical investment in consolidating caste distinction. These material relations of social power ground the normative, modern savarna Bengali Brahminical epistemological standpoint. In short...
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Vendidas y Devueltas: Queer Times and Color Lines in Chicana/o Performance
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 114–146.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., mestiza, and white selves, for whom belonging is so fleeting, partial, and incomplete? Chicana theorists have taken these questions seriously in their efforts to map and untangle the baggage that binds and the tools that empower, birthed by our colonial inheritance. The figure ofLa Vendida-also known...
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De-naming: Unraveling the Sex-Skin and Gender-Mask Technologies in the Colonial Naming Structure
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 417–438.
Published: 01 October 2024
... birth to the inheritors of capital and colonial humanity (2007: 202; 2010: 743). Notably, the birth of modern men and modern women coincided with the emergence of the modern idea of sex. Thomas Laqueur ( 1992 ) emphasizes that dimorphic sex, conveying the “incommensurable difference” (11) between...
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Under-Theorized and Under-Taught: Re-examining Harriet Tubman’s Place in Women’s Studies
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 463–483.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that “slavery, and resistance to it, were the defining moments of the birth of black women’s oppositional consciousness” (Hine 1993 , 343). Tubman’s role in this history is also, in part, what Barbara Smith sought to underscore when explaining how the naming of the Combahee River Collective was a conscious...
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The Uses of Mourning: An Introduction
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 307–316.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the ways that mourning constantly intrudes as well as inspires scholarly and artistic productions. Following Morrison, Lorde, bell hooks, and other critical feminist scholars, it is a means of disrupting dominant epistemologies, while centering a conceptual frame issuing from the contributions of people...
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Under-Theorized and Under-Taught: Re-examining Harriet Tubman's Place in Women's Studies
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 28–49.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to multiple forms of oppression. For instance, to underscore Tubman's position in the history of black feminist consciousness, Darlene Clark Hine argues that "slavery, and resistance to it, were the defining moments of the birth of black women's oppositional consciousness" (Hine 1993, 343). Tubman's role...
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