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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., and feminism have been overlooked in popular and academic works. In this essay, I aim to bridge some of these conversations by linking early works of radical feminists of color with contemporary hip-hop feminism in an effort to frame Ndegeocello's contributions to hip-hop culture, Black queer identity...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2008
... that knowledge production is a key mechanism through which economic or demographic processes are organized. Against such a mobilization of knowledge, this essay situates black feminism as a site of alternative futurity. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 GRACE KYUNGWON HONG "TheFutureof OurWorlds...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Jennifer C. Nash Abstract This article examines the consolidation of love into a black feminist politics during second-wave feminism. By reading love-politics as both a practice of the self and a nonidentitarian strategy for constructing political communities, I argue that black feminism's love...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 204–232.
Published: 01 September 2015
... College 2015 ANASTASIA CURWOOD Black Feminism on Capitol Hill: Shirley Chisholm and Movement Politics, 1968-1984 Abstract Shirley Chisholm (1924-2005) conducted a long political career in the service ofblackfeminist ideas. Her 1972 runfor President is the most famous of her efforts, but she also served...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 40–64.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of Black women in a large Midwestern city. Formed during the summer of 2014 in response to what we as the founders of the group saw as a personal, professional, social, spiritual, and otherwise holistic need, the group is a safe place for the women who AsHLEY PATTERSON, ET AL. BLACK FEMINISM AND CRITICAL...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 343–350.
Published: 01 March 2018
... an expanded understanding of Black feminism and womanism, Black women can more fully engage in holistic health journeys. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 SHAWN ARANGO RICKS Normalized Chaos: Black Feminism, Womanism, and the (Re)definition ofTrauma and Healing Abstract This paper will discuss how...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 373–381.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and their health. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 CHINYERE OKAFOR Black Feminism Embodiment: A Theoretical Geography of Home, Healing, and Activism Abstract This paper aims to uplift a story by a queer Black woman activist residing in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Using various narrative analysis techniques...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 439–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
...” is the centerpiece of her hip-hop feminism (Morgan 1995 , 152), Gwendolyn Pough argues that the labor of contemporary Black feminism should be articulating a “message of self-love” (Pough 2003 , 241), and bell hooks reminds us that “all the great movements for social justice in our society have strongly emphasized...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 19–52.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Whitney A. Peoples Abstract This essay seeks to explore the sociopolitical objectives of hip-hop feminism, to address the generational ruptures that those very objectives reveal, and to explore the practical and theoretical qualities that second- and third-wave generations of black feminists have...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 7–39.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Stephanie Troutman; Ileana Jiménez Abstract This coauthored article examines the ways in which teaching Black feminism in both high school and undergraduate contexts can inspire Black feminist activism in young Black women and girls. Using the work of bell hooks as a foundation for designing...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 245–268.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Conra D. Gist Abstract This article examines the ways in which black feminism—as a concept, an applied theory, and a safety net—functions as a critical social theory designed to assist students in understanding the multiple ways that black and brown women are marginalized through institutionalized...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 118–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... care, as well as a home and a place of dignity in the world's history to millions of Black/Afro-descendent women. We need to conspire to secure access to adequate care and treatment to Black/Afro-descendent women living with HIV, and to preserve the land of deracinated women. Black feminism and all...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 123–154.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Laura Lomas Abstract The exiled Cuban poet, editor, and feminist Lourdes Casal breaks with social scientific convention and identifies in the first person with “Hispanic Blackness,” feminism, and Cuba in her essays about race and revolution. Her bridging of identity categories informs Casal’s self...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 142–152.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., the Combahee River Collective, and a holistic practice of black feminism as a collective visionary act. Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 ALEXIS PAULINE GUMBS Prophecyin the PresentTense: HarrieTt ubmant,heCombahePeil.9rima.9e, andDreamCs omin.T9rue Abstract OnJune2, 2013,EternalSummeor...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of Black women. The concept of feminism was first appropriated on Brazilian soil by educated white middle-class women who, in the process, built a particular history in which poor and Black women found little room to express their needs. Black women have been developing a critique of this appropriation...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 471–479.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... Copyright © 2019 Smith College 2019 Combahee River Collective Statement Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists transnational feminisms Black feminism African feminism The 2017 National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland celebrated...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 227–243.
Published: 01 April 2019
... a heterosexual nuclear family model that is informed by feminist ideology and takes shape in a twenty-first-century material reality transformed by feminism. Second to this, and in the context of her relationship with her famous African American mother, Walker characterizes the biological (black feminist) mother...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 240–266.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Devaleena Das Abstract Examining the critical genealogy of transnational feminism, this essay proposes a feminist theoretical model called quilted epistemology derived from the Black feminist art of quilting. Aiming to strengthen transnational feminism, quilted epistemology intends to resolve some...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of an Afro-Colombian student who wanted to write on Black feminism, simply asserting it supposedly doesnot exist(esono existe).The student fought against this expression of academic racism, finished her proposed thesis, and now is a leading voice in a rising tide ofBlack and Indigenous feminist theory...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 548–558.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and the Feminist Classroom” which examines the ways in which teaching Black feminism in both high school and undergraduate contexts can inspire Black feminist activism in young Black women and girls. Drawing upon the work of bell hooks and the notion that “Feminism is for Everybody,” the authors developed...
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