...Alden Sajor Marte-Wood Copyright © 2021 Smith College 2021 Filipino American caregivers care work COVID-19 transnational reproductive labor Philippines March 25, 2020. It’s four in the morning. Since becoming a father, I’ve intentionally begun to wake up earlier and earlier. I’m...

... ability to see our way clear to a different future. This is an editedand updatedversionofanarticlethat.firstappearedon August15, 2013at Salon.com: httpwww.salon.com/2013/08/15/really_russell_simmons_a_ harriet_tubman_sex_tape/(accessedJuly 18, 2014). BRITTNEY COOPER DOES ANYONE CARE ABOUT BLACK WOMEN...

...jessica Care moore Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 JESSICA CARE MOORE We Want Our Bodies Back I wrote and read this poem for the first time in Ferguson, Missouri. I was a part ofa two-day artist-driven fundraising effort to support the family of seventeen-year-old Michael Brown, who...

...Grace Poore MEDIA MATTERS Be Careful What You Ask For: The Goddesses Might Be Listening GRACE POORE As shestandsin line,walksthedo.9, drivesto school,makesthebed sheremembertshat sheis not dead. Onlywaitin.9. And what remindsheris thephantom spirit of herselfwhostayshiddenbehindherdreams...

...Aslı Zengin Abstract In Sunni Muslim funerals in Turkey, the state, religious actors, and members of kin and family hold the obligations and rights to the deceased, such as washing, shrouding, burying, and praying for the dead body, which the author characterizes as care for the dead. The practices...

... narcissus whose thin stellate shadows lance the room. 4. A thousandgradationsof.9ray. Eyes closed, the blind woman says isn't the moon made oflavender jade or a medicine cabinet for eye drops, a pair of wings and a jewel box, a box of pencil shavings and graphite, CARING FOR ANOTHER WOMAN 71 allotrope...

... for this gathering was to have a major intervention: in the twenty-first century, Black/Afro-descendent women need to conspire. We understand a conspiracy to be an act of love and care; a search for equity and equality; an affirmation of our beauty; a commitment to guaranteeing access to food, education and health...

..., “PsychoHairapy” is a community health model created to secure space for Black women to address mental health and well-being through hair care. PsychoHairapy is grounded in traditional African spiritual systems that are culturally relevant by focusing on relationships that promote healthy practices. The theory...

... of black theory and a logic of care. This is an exercise in how else one could choose to arrive at blackness and queerness and feminism by way of narration. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 8 Kalundu’s albinism was another site for my grandfather’s cunning distortions. During World War I, my...

... of ciguapismo , a fundamentally paradoxical mode for understanding how women endure in times of personal grief, awareness of aging, and under the shadow of sexual violence. It is also a form of environmental reckoning centered on collective care. Whether set in the Caribbean or the U.S. Dominican diaspora...

... ) is to have a space where Black women can find healing in others’ moments of clarity about self-love, self-care, mental health, and well-being. Inspired by bell hooks’s discourse on the gaze and rooted in community psychological research with a Womanist approach, the S.O.S. Project builds upon intrinsic...

... digital self-care practices. ERIN L. BERRY-MCCREA "To My Girls in Therapy, See Imma Tell You This fo Free . . ."1: Black Millennial Women Speaking Truth to Power in and across the Digital Landscape Abstract This paper describes the ways that Black millennial women have come to acknowledge the role ofvoice...

... not accommodate an ethic of care and personal responsibility. MAKO FITTS "DropIt LikeIt's Hot" CulturIendustryLaborerasndTheir PerspectiveosnRapMusicVideoProduction Abstract Thispaperdescribesresultsfrom a qualitativestudy ofthemusicvideoproductionindustry andthecreativeprocessin...

... on state intervention and on the CDT. Marked deficiencies in the medical institution make access to satisfactory health care unlikely. And perhaps the most striking deficiency was the absence of a maternity ward. The CDT had not been envisioned to allow for birthing on the island. The situation, according...

... the ability of multiply marginalized women to govern themselves (Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice 2005; Ross 2006a, 2006b). It recognizes the need to appropriately address the configurations of state power that link our contemporary penal state to our judicial, welfare, and health-care systems...

... their efforts to resist this violence in concert with a broader resistance to carcerality overall. Works Cited ABC News . 1999 . Crime & Punishment: Women in Prison: Medical Care . Nightline. 2 November . ACE Program . 1998 . Breaking the Walls of Silence: aids and Women in a New York...

... of women and men who want to overcome barriers erected by poverty and racism. For example, when women who spend many years in prison are released, instead of jobs, housing, health care, and education, they are offered a small amount of release money, which covers little more than a bus ride and two nights...

... to bring about a more equitable distribution of health care resources, services and information to and about women of African descent in the United States and abroad. Headquartered in Atlanta with affiliate offices in New York City; Oakland, California; Philadelphia; Gainesville, Florida, and Washington...

... industries. We want to put an end to the dictatorship of white European beauty standards and we want respect for our cultural diversity and black aesthetics. We are marching to demand the end ofracism in all its manifestations, including in the fields of health care, where maternal mortality is due...

... sittin' there along with hair frying spit flying and babies crying Use to be you could learn a whole lot about how to catch up with yourself and some other folks in your household. Lots more got taken care of than hair . . . . —Willi Coleman, “Among the Things...