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Meridians (2014) 12 (2): 153–155.
Published: 01 September 2014
... 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...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 218–228.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Predicaments in the Philippines , in which she registers the emotional distance between content moderation and other more visible kinds of care work: “ New hierarchies of affective labor will certainly emerge to mark the distinction between high-quality, high-value jobs that preserve human well-being...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 180–203.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Oda-Kange Midtvåge Diallo; Jasmine Kelekay; Maimuna Abdullahi; Lena Sawyer Abstract Can counter-archiving be a form of social care? This essay is a dialogue on this topic among four Afro-Nordic feminists writing to each other in the form of letters over a five-month period during 2021. Using...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 230–237.
Published: 01 March 2018
...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...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 69–72.
Published: 01 September 2006
... 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...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 78–97.
Published: 01 March 2002
...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...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 350–370.
Published: 01 October 2022
...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...
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Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 118–129.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 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...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 382–392.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., “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...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 211–235.
Published: 01 September 2008
... not accommodate an ethic of care and personal responsibility. Copyright © 2008 by Smith College 2008 MAKO FITTS "DropIt LikeIt's Hot" CulturIendustryLaborerasndTheir PerspectiveosnRapMusicVideoProduction Abstract Thispaperdescribesresultsfrom a qualitativestudy ofthemusicvideoproductionindustry...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 205–217.
Published: 01 December 2016
... ) 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...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (2): 363–372.
Published: 01 March 2018
... digital self-care practices. Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 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...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 401–414.
Published: 01 November 2018
... 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 memory care feminism woman-to-woman marriage narrative “How are you called?” Nĩtawa Mũsangi...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
... 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...
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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 (2): 510–522.
Published: 01 October 2024
... Wright struggles with the reasons her grandmother looked outside their community of midwives for maternal care and gave birth in a Jim Crow hospital in Lynchburg, Virginia. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Smith College 2024 birthing justice reproductive justice women’s studies...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 76–93.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Smith College 2023 women of color activism solidarity emotions care In our work exploring women of color’s activism in Europe, we have noted how activists have expanded their discussions about the successes and obstacles...
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Meridians (2016) 15 (1): 166–188.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to our judicial, welfare, and health-care systems in ways that subject poor and queer women of color to inhumane and lethal laws, policies, and practice (Roberts 1997; Meridians:feminismra,ce,transnationalismrs, no. r (2016): r66-r88. Copyright© 2016 Smith College. doi: ro.2979/meridians.15.r.09 166...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 87–111.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., the variety of corporations making money from prisons is truly dizzying, ranging from Dial Soap to Famous Amos cookies, from AT&T to health-care providers. . . . In 1995 Dial Soap sold $100,000 worth of its product to the New York City jail system alone. . . . When VitaPro Foods of Montreal, Canada...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 360–382.
Published: 01 October 2020
.... 25 The medical director of the CDT, Dr. Betzaida MacKenzie, stated that today there are higher expectations for the medical community. These result from the specialization of physicians who can provide better health care. The exponential increase in medically relevant knowledge has also meant...