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... Andthen I willbeusuul Donna Kate Rushin, "The Bridge Poem" Si Aristoteles hubiera guisado, mucho mas hubiera escrito. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Respuestaa SorFiloteadela Cruz When thinking about the U.S.-Mexican border, the contrasting images of products and people immediately cross my mind. A special...

...Luz María Gordillo Abstract This essay first analyzes the construction of a “Muslim Woman Other” as a particular social reality through the dissemination of academic and media discourses, militarization of the border, and the implementation of immigration policies and practices that allow...

... the more modest "Lower" part. I toddled around my beautiful tree-lined street with an ethnically mixed bunch of working- and middle-class kids, a handful of them black. I knew nothing of civil rights as I started Jefferson Elementary, a monumental building bordered by turn-of-the-century mansions, some...

... used her art to bring attention to social issues particularly around women, immigration, and the US-Mexico border. Arroyo's FlordeVida(Flower ofLife) project celebrates women who form part of the mythologies of cultures from around the world, such as Lakshmi, Xochiquetzal, and Daphne. The vibrant...

... members who stay behind (Durand et al. 2016 ) and endure new roles as primary caretakers for elders with expensive and time-consuming regimens (Yahalom 2019 ). The experience of inequality travels across borders, regions, and Indigenous communities (Blackwell 2017 ; Stephen 2007 ). With growing...

...Lily Martinez Abstract Borders have been commonly popularized as a space where illegal acts and perversions occur. As an area of political instability and representative of constant corporal movement, they are imagined as the impossibility of cultural development. Typical representations...

... for women. Unfortunately, what they found on the “Queen's soil” was that racism as well as sexist beliefs were a transcending sentiment, which did not discontinue at the American-Canadian international border. Still, these women in the dominion of Canada fought to challenge constructed borders, whether...

... of this hand-stacked structure, which is designed to accommodate movement in relation to the biopolitical technology of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, migrant dispossession, and my own family’s experiences navigating borders and cleaved spaces. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023...

... of opening and closing that both isolates . . . and makes [it] impenetrable” (Foucault 1986, 26), making the heterotopia a space that erects its own fluid and autonomous boundaries. Las Krudas' music also expands diasporic space, transgresses geographic borders, and links sound to place: La Habana. In La...

... of Sikh subject-formation in a pre-Partition border community, and close in, like the novel itself, on a key moment of embodied violence: the cutting up and reassembling of a woman's body, whose manner of death is later reconstructed by her male family members, in the presence of a female family member...

... and transported violently across national borders to be sold at auction. These films focus on criminal perpetrators and criminal-justice solutions, rather than on the broader systemic causes of sex trafficking, like globalization, economic inequality, poverty, and ethnic, race, and gender oppressions. This essay...

... system as simply a US–Mexico border issue by situating the burgeoning influence of East Asian nations and corporations in this economically profitable region of the world. Through the concept of glorientalization, I elucidate the connections between the all-encompassing gestures of globalization...

... the founding president of the Arab Feminist Union. Bringing these figures into conversation with Angela Davis's encounter with women in Egypt in her book Women, Culture, and Politics opens up new spaces for cross-border feminisms that cut across imperial legacies that continue to define relationships between...

... is rooted in Black feminist and transnational feminist traditions, and has as its core the guiding principles of intersectionality, scholar-activism, solidarity building, and attention to borders and boundaries. Copyright © 2016 Smith College 2016 KIAM. Q.HALL A TransnationalBlackFeminist...

... as other feminist texts such as Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa (1987). By highlighting Ann’s story, the goal is to analyze the impermeability of borders within spaces, identities, and activism, as well as examine the ways that geographies can be mapped onto the bodies of Black queer women...

... the 2011 people’s uprising in Egypt as well as on the iconic pan-Arab feminist leader Huda Shaarawi to evoke powerful images of Muslim women. Finally, the essay turns to transnational feminists such as Angela Davis, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Cynthia Enloe, Miriam Cooke, and Zillah Eisenstein for cross-border...

...Ina Knobblock Abstract This article is a Sámi feminist analysis of large-scale resource extraction in Sábme, the transnational Sámi territory spanning northern Fenno-Scandinavia and the Murmansk peninsula. Specifically, it centers on the mining of Indigenous land within the borders of the Swedish...

... from the public imaginary of mourning and loss. It also considers how the multiple subject positions of Puerto Ricans shape belonging both locally and across transnational borders. In doing so, the author makes the case for an intersectional analysis of mass violence, mourning, and resistance, in order...

.... But by and large, especially for me as a Haitian, when I look at how women activists have been working with each other, sometimes across the border, but since '86, '87, especially amongst themselves, because the Duvalier regime 5 made it impossible to have those kinds of connections in an ongoing kind of way...

... allocations. Although a significant body of anthropological research has been conducted in the nearby region of Ladakh, especially within border and Himalayan studies (van Beek 2000; Aggarwal 2004; Aggarwal and Bhan 2009; Middleton 2013; Smith 2013), very little scholarship has focused on the Lahaul valley...